Posted on 12/17/2015 12:16:40 PM PST by Isara
Las Vegas - James Dobson, founder of the Christian group Focus on the Family and one of the nation's most influential evangelicals, will endorse Ted Cruz for president today, according to sources briefed on the announcement.
It will represent the latest in a series of endorsements for Cruz from prominent conservative leaders, dozens of whom met secretly last week and voted to coalesce their forces behind the Texas senator. The plan, as decided by the Tony Perkins-led group, is to slowly roll out endorsements from prominent conservative leaders individually to create a perception of the "movement" uniting behind Cruz.
Dobson, sources say, has long been an outspoken voice on Cruz's behalf, arguing in previous private gatherings that Marco Rubio was not sufficiently conservative to earn the group's support.
Yeah!
This is rather interesting.
There is no deception. They are working to build momentum for Cruz, and part of that will be to announce high-profile conservative endorsements over an extended period of time. You announce one endorsement and give that time to have an effect, then the next endorsement builds on that effect, and so on. If you announce all of the endorsements at one time, you get a one-time bump and that is it. This is smart politics on their part, but there is nothing deceptive about it.
But yes I agree, probably good politics. But not necessarily total upfront honestly.
But yes I agree, probably good politics. But not necessarily total upfront honestly.
Yes it is good politics. But there is nothing dishonest about it unless the people involved were to be asked about it and were to say they hadn't made up their minds, or that they did not support Cruz, only to come out later and endorse him. THAT would be deception.
Not surprising at all. Huck was ticked.
Yeah, James Dobson threw Fred Thompson under the bus and endorsed John McCain last time around. Lots of luck with that, James.
It sure didn't help McCain or the Republican Party in 2008.
Granted you're correct, but McCain was a turn-off to all conservative voters.
Cruz, (my guy) and Trump are firing all of us up!
Evangelicals need to get fired up to get to the voting booths.
Cruz has that charisma.
I agree with the first half of your statement, regarding the failure of the Christian Right. However, the United States is following the same leftward path of all the Western democracies. Most of them do not have large evangelical communities. By and large they are nominally Catholic or mainline Protestant. Ineffective resistance or no resistance are little different.
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