Dobson Endorses Huckabee
In a move that should shock no one (save perhaps for its immediacy), James Dobson has endorsed Mike Huckabee for president.
How quickly they come around when it all falls down. It wasn't so long ago that Dobson and the Arlington Group cartel fretted about Huckabee's electability and patiently waited for Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson to gain viability with the base. With both now on the sidelines, JDobs was forced to choose between a heretical senator and an unviable governor, and chose the latter.
What this portends for the rest of the religious right is anybody's guess, but for the electorate at large, it probably doesn't matter.
(h/t to Christianity Today.)
Comments
The most revealing statement by Dobson is found on his citizenlink website where he says he can't support a man who uses "foul language." LOL! I bet know one has in the current White House has ever used foul language! NOT! These kinds of nonsensical "moral" arguments by religious right leaders continue to undermine their credibility. Did anyone ask Bush or his aids to take the no "cussing pledge" in 2000 or 2004 when he was running for President? Or is this standard only for people religious right leaders don't like? You gotta wonder!
Posted by: Route 66 | February 8, 2008 10:06 AM
Interesting to see the generational split, Frank Schaeffer (if you don't know his father, you don't know the Religious Right) wrote today why he is pro-life and pro-Obama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/why-im-prolife-and-pro_b_85636.html
Posted by: Alex Carpenter | February 8, 2008 01:25 PM
did you just coin "JDobs"? I hope so.
Posted by: Beth | February 10, 2008 01:15 PM