Mixed messages?

[mdlbear]

So, Eric Rudolph has confessed to being a serial bomber, thereby avoiding the death penalty in exchange for four consecutive life sentences.

Rudolph is a Right-wing Christian whose anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-Semitic hatred resulted in a series of blasts in Georgia and Alabama in the late 1990s that killed two people and injured more than 120.

In the two years after setting off a backpack bomb in Atlanta, Rudolph attacked a lesbian nightclub in Atlanta and two abortion clinics -- one in Birmingham and one in Atlanta. The Birmingham attack killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.

Why do I get the feeling that the real reason for the plea bargain was to avoid a high-profile public trial for a man whose principles are so perfectly in tune with those of our current administration and their religious-right power base?