The patriarch of the famous and influential Duck Dynasty empire is urging voters “to elect Godly men for crying out loud, or we are going to get more of the same.”
In a YouTube video cut for the evangelical group American Renewal Project, Phil Robertson urged voters in Louisiana, home to his family’s operation, to get to the polls: “Better move before it’s too late.”
Filmed in the woods and with Robertson in his trademark camo, the sometimes controversial businessman said, “We are in a republic. We are supposed to vote for the ones that run our country.”
He adds, “We need to elect Godly men for crying out loud, or we are going to get more of the same.”
Robertson concluded, “Just remember this. Vote Godly. We want Godly men making political decisions like George Washington, like John Adams, like Thomas Jefferson, like James Madison. We need Godly men like the ones who founded our country.”
It is one of two that he did for American Renewal and posted on Wednesday. In a second, he slapped political correctness and said that those who don’t vote are to blame. He added that political correctness “has trumped Biblical correctness.”
American Renewal operates a national effort to register the huge numbers of unregistered Christians and evangelicals by convincing pastors the importance of voting.
The American Renewal Project has a $2 million election effort targeting nine states. No other Evangelical group is as active in the midterms.
American Renewal organizer David Lane said the goal is “moving low propensity Evangelical voters who typically have voted in only 1 out of the last 4 presidential elections.”
Lane said that Robertson’s message is meant to encourage voters to elect “Godly men and women.”
Lane’s “Pastors and Pews” events are popular around the nation and give supportive politicians like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz a chance to meet with pastors, though he doesn’t pick candidates.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
