From the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic:
James Dobson, founder of Colorado Springs-based evangelical Christian empire Focus on the Family, today endorsed Rick Santorum for president. The move comes a week after prominent conservative leaders met in Texas to choose one candidate to rally around in the so-far deeply fractious Republican primary. As a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and as a presidential candidate, Santorum has made stands on social issues his calling card, touting his opposition to gay rights, abortion and even contraception. Yet Dobson in his announcement cited Santorum’s expertise on foreign affairs as the main factor driving the endorsement.
“While there are other GOP candidates who are worthy of our support, Sen. Santorum is the man of the hour,” Dobson said in a statement released Thursday, according to the Washington Post. “His knowledge of international politics, especially Israel and the turmoil in the Middle East, is highly relevant to the dangerous world in which we live. This is why I am endorsing former Senator Rick Santorum for president of the United States, and urge my countrymen to join us in this campaign.”
We would call the South Carolina Republican primary electorate one of ex-Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson’s last bedrock constituencies–it’s no secret that the influence of the religious right in American politics is on the wane, one of the reasons why Focus on the Family has throttled back its budgets. But in such an arch-conservative state, a candidate like Rick Santorum could realize a critical boost from Dobson’s endorsement.
by shaming the adulterers at this past weekend’s religious confab in TX:
further fractures on the righties rockbed of support with God vacillating on who’s #1.
Ever since Gingrich denounced same-sex marriage as profaning “The Sacrament of Marriage” I’ve waited for someone to point out that Gingrich’s serial adulteries have profaned the sacrament of marriage far more than any committed gay or lesbian couple ever could.
And not only was Gingrich’s third wife his mistress for eight years, his second wife was his mistress for years before that!
Voyageurs’s law:
that perhaps Newt never promised fidelity in his marriage vows. I think he should be asked
Have him produce his marriage vows along with his consulting contract with Freddie Mac which netted him $ 1.6 million.
I’m personally more interested in the latter and chagrined that neither a rival candidate or the press is holding his feet to the fire on this.
This is Dobson proclaiming his irrelevance. Very disappointing.
but Arapajoke will be orgasmic with glee when he endorses Rummy. Dobson won’t be irrelevant then.
At least our joker has learned that the Dan Maes’ of the world don’t win general elections. On the other hand backing a blue blood who lies through his teeth and will say anything to get elected isn’t exactly campaign gold either.
If Santorum wins in S.C. or Rummy and Gingrich tie, it is going to be a barn burner of negativity in Florida.
He can back away from it any time he wants – it’s on the interwebs. And he should evangelicals are pretty skilled at choosing what to believe.
What a pickle if Dobson recognizes Obama as a Christian and then has to back a cultist.
if he and other evangelical leaders abstain rather than do that. If A-BOT believes Dobson’s irrelevant then, the test will be whether evangelicals stay away from the polls, or don’t vote in the POTUS contest while casting them for downticket races.
will continue to entice the fundies to vote and once in the polling booth how can they not pull the the lever for every R on the ticket?
There is a completely coherent reason why we’ll see another personhood ballot initiative in November that will have slim to none chance of passing. These people are not stupid even though they are cynical far beyond the teachings of their savior. He would take a rope to them if he walked the earth today.
See:
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is that the fundies really don’t like Obama.
They’ll hold their noses but they’ll vote Republican. Kind of like me voting for Udall instead of Coors.
and some won’t. Some of them seem to have stronger feelings about Mormons than you do about centrist Dems.
who spend more time climbing the political ladder than producing needed legislation.
When you career highlight is getting Rocky Mountain National Park designated as a wilderness area then you haven’t done much.
Didn’t mean to drift into “Santorum” territory, there. Really.
Dobson has said some things in the past, but he’s also part of many organizations that are allied with the LDS church.
I really think it’s liberals that have more of a problem with Romney’s faith.
When there’s so much to dislike, Romney’s faith doesn’t even make the list.
that should matter
Doesn’t matter where his daddy was born.
He’s white.
MADCO wasn’t speaking generally, he was speaking about a specific thing Dobson said about Mormons. Either it’s true or it isn’t.
but fled for my life. The fundies have a huge problem with the Mittens being Mormon. And those “I’m a Mormon” commercials have just convinced that there really is something for the Mormons to hide.
Dobson, as other evangelicals, have claimed that the “alliances” with LDS organizations is just more evangelizing. as in evangelicalism it’s not jsut for Jews, papists and heathens anymore.