Dobson should've just kept his mouth shut. This guy was a nobody and the press attention was obvious manipulation of the voters. It wasn't at all newsworthy until a notable like James Dobson opened his big mouth, and now they have an excuse to make a big deal out of nothing just because he's stepped into it.
There's a lot of truth in that.
Unless something is signified in our society by "those in the know," it dies a quiet death.
His international ministry has its HQ in CO Springs, as does Haggard's.
For this reason, it was appropriate for him to speak up as many of the 30,000,000 evangelicals in the orgranization were probably looking for Dobson's opinion.