While ole Pat may have had a moment of clarity, I wouldn't count on it lasting. Tony Norman had this to say about him in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
Giggling mischievously last January and reading notes jotted down during his off-the-record chats with the Lord, the televangelist refused to name the winner, but he did lambaste President Barack Obama with a catalog of God's complaints about how he was running things.
Fast forward to a few days before the election and the facade of coyness had been dropped. Pat Robertson, like his cohorts in the right-wing media entertainment complex, was predicting not just a Romney win, but a landslide.Read more:
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/tony-norman/pat-robertson-evolves-to-show-some-sense-664327/#ixzz2DozSxmx8Now, it's entirely possible that God simply changed His mind about who would win in November, and if so, it's equally possible He'll change positions on Creationism in the near future too. God can do that. It's one of the perks of being omnipotent, after all.
On a related note, I read today that Boston's Logan Airport ran out of parking spaces on election day. Not parking spaces for cars, but rather parking spaces for all those private jets as the 1% expected to fly in for the big Romney victory party.
Robertson kicking Creationism to the curb may be a fundamental ideological dividing point much like the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939. It was a turning point for American members of the Communist Party, many of them idealists who hung on through Stalin's purges, but could no longer stomach his dictatorial power. The pact formed an alliance - temporary as it may be - with the political antithesis of communism. Members left the CPUSA in droves.
I'm not trying to suggest that Robertson's statements will have the international impact of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Instead, I think it will cause fragmentation on the religious right with a diminution of their political clout.