Posted on 10/06/2005 3:57:11 AM PDT by Pharmboy
You sound like a dork.
Dr. Dobson, Please PLEASE learn to hold off issuing statements on anything Prez Bush does or anyone he nominates until you have all the facts (or at least a good 80% of 'em). Otherwise you're forced to do silly, embarrassing things like this.
He's just like those old farts who dumped Social Security onto our backs - he'll be dead and dust long before the consequences of his actions really screw the rest of us.
Yes, Focus is a powerful lobby group and certain swing state Senators will listen closely to them.
Dan, I believe the point is Dobson came out earlier with totally unqualified endorsement for the nominee. Now, while he hasn't changed his position, he allowing for a "waffle". Yes, the headline is misleading, but for him to say what he said after his no holds barred earlier endorsement is significant. I think he, like Rush, is trying to put himself in a "I was correct" whether Miers is a good or poor nominee or justice.
Dobson did not do the same thing with the Roberts endorsement. Plus earlier in the week, he was one of the first of the social right to give a no holds barred endorsement. Now he seems a little more mushy. Dobson is setting himeself up to be able to be right whether Miers is a good or poor nominee or ultimately a justice.
Dobson is on a GOP conference call at this very moment reiterating his support for Harriet Meirs.
A religious conversion does not necessarily translate into a change in politics.
There ARE pro-life Democrats and pro-choice Republicans.
We are not selecting a cleric, but a Justice who will interpret the constitution in a strict manner, along the lines of original intent and without legislating from the bench.
Unles her religious conversion is associated with a political conversion that refelcts that fact, she is not the woman for the job.
We'll have to wait I guess until the hearings to see what materializes.
Thank you for putting Dobson's comments in context.
People forget that many conservative Southerners have traditionally been members of the Democratic Party. As the Democratic Party has moved to the left, more and more conservatives are voting for the most conservative candidate, abandoning the liberal Democrats.
Because Republicans are library paste.
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