Posted on 09/27/2007 5:56:15 PM PDT by blogsforthompson.com
Fred Thompson commented further, today, on the attack made against him by Dr. James Dobson over a week ago. Fred has said very little, despite the hateful and inaccurate attack made by Dobson in a "private" email, just privately calculated enough for all the world to see. Since the attack, clearly designed to keep Evangelical Voters from siding with Fred, Fred has been defended by other Conservative Values Leaders like Gary Bauer and Southern Baptist Richard Land. But when asked about it again today, Fred had a little more to say, and he said it very well:
"Thompson again dismissed harsh criticism from James Dobson, founder and chairman of Colorado-based Focus on the Family, an evangelical Christian group. . . . . "
(Excerpt) Read more at blogsforfredthompson.com ...
I wondered about Dobson's hateful "private" e-mail; a little down this summary is given:
In a private e-mail obtained last week by The Associated Press, Dobson accused the former Tennessee senator and actor of being weak on the campaign trail and wrong on issues dear to social conservatives.
Weak on the campaign trail and wrong on social issues! Why, the venom...
Ronald Reagan, God bless his soul, didn’t attend church regularly yet Dobson endorsed him. TWICE!
Jimmy Carter not only regularly attends a southern baptist church, but he used to teach Sunday school and I’d never vote for him to a city council much less POTUS and neither would Dobson.
Looks like Dobson is still holding out for something better to come along I guess.
Labeling Dobson as hateful will not win many people over. I would suggest you remove those comments from the blog, unless you want to make the situation worse.
I haven't been following this little squabble, but I'm interested to know what exactly Dobson said that this author deems "hateful."
Well said Fred.
Dobson's lack of support will have minimal impact on Fred's campaign.
I think most people can see that the email was not leaked by accident and it is Dobson who looks worse for it.
Agreed. Attempting to paint Dobson as a villain is a bumbling overreaction, not to mention a gross mischaracterization of the facts. About as believable as accusing Mr. Rogers of flipping off children and spitting on nuns.
Could Dobson be prompting Fred to “go for it”? Or is Dobson waiting for Gingrich to run?
ROFLOL
I doubt if very many people in this country know who dobson is, if I saw his picture I wouldn't know who it was without a label, and the most of use don't really care what the man thinks.
Dobson is waiting for payola.
Dobson is testing the waters to see who to support or piously
stay home.
Who is this Dobson, another Jim Bakker wannabe?
Though it is notable that Dobsons one time protege Gary Bauer is supporting Thompson.
I like Thompson and intend to back him, but it is wrong to portray Dr. Dobson as some kind of villian simply because he disagrees with Thompson and does not view him the same way I and many others do.
One thing I hate about primaries, is that sometimes good people get torn apart for no good reason other then to support other good people.
Its like political canibalism and scorthed earth all mixed into one.
Not even close.
I disagree with his opinion, however, I think we need to disagree agreeably with Dobson.
From what I have heard from the man he is usually full of common sense and throwing around unfounded and incorrect characterizations of him just lowers the bar as far discussion goes here on Free Republic.
Tell me you are joking. There are no sarcasim tags there.
Yes I am jokaring! But only to illustrate the point raised above that most of the country doesn’t know and doesn’t care who the guys is, and many would ask a similar question.
The actual quote taken from Thompson is further down the article.
And it makes much more sense than what you have in quotation marks. Here it is -
"He is very politically involved and he has his own ideas, I think, about who ought to get the Republican nomination, and it's clearly not me," Thompson said.
"I don't know what's up with the gentleman, but it's a free country and he's free to say whatever he wants to," Thompson said. "All I know is that many of his friends and many of his colleagues are embarrassed by some of the comments that he's made, and they're friends of mine."
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