I'm Livin' In A Dream World..

Pat Robertson Wants the Devil's Weed Decriminalized.  (From Gawker)  What's next?  Cloverfield monsters running for Office?  I thought that would be as likely as last week's announcement.  Excerpts:
 
Whatever happened to the culture warriors? Everyone is either a gay soldier or a black president nowadays. Or perhaps even a pot decriminalizing televangelist? This is old Pat Robertson, now. Pat Robertson is sick of the War on Marijuana.
 
"We're locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you know they've got 10 years with mandatory sentences," Robertson continued. "These judges just say, they throw up their hands and say nothing we can do with these mandatory sentences. We've got to take a look at what we're considering crimes and that's one of 'em.
 
"I'm ... I'm not exactly for the use of drugs, don't get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kinda thing it's just, it's costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That's not a good thing."
 
I don't fucking know who this guy is.  I don't want to complain or jinx this development in any way, but seriously:  Who is this?
 
This turn of events begs more than one question..  How long has Pat Robertson felt this way?  Why has he chosen December, 2010 (as opposed to, say, October or November, 2010) to publicly voice his support on restructuring marijuana laws?  Will his religious contemporaries agree and follow, or disagree, and totally disavow him? 
 
For most of society, this is a curiosity, a cool turn of events, an "are you fucking kidding me?" event..  But for Social Conservatives and Evangelicals, this is HUGE.  I'm sure the denouncements are already beginning, but so are the beginnings of Religious Right Wing (as a voting bloc) support for the ultimate legalization of Marijuana.  Robertson's stance will be hotly debated, within many religious and political circles for years to come.  This is big.
 
As despicable the man is, Pat Robertson might ultimately be the man who defeated the War on Marijuana.