“Santorum, however, believes that Dobson’s comments and Thompson’s reluctance to embrace the evangelical community’s stance on marriage issues could hurt him with the crowd.”
“His position on marriage is something of a concern,” Santorum said.
I believe it was Senator Santorum that coined the phrase Islamic Facists. He was warning about Osama and that crazy in Iran early on.
Senator Thompson should listen to what Senator Santorum has to say about the moral conservatives. It isn’t a matter of bowing the knee to James Dobson, it is about his stand on pushing for constitutional remedies (ammendment) to the homosexual situation. This is one area where an extreme allegance to “Federalism” hurts him.
I would like to see Senator Thompson do better and sow up the nomination. To do so he needs to swing a little more to the right on moral issues. He must secure the moral conservative base to stomp out Mayor Guiliani. Otherwise the moral conservatives will be split over several candidates in the primaries which could throw the nod to Guiliani. A Guiliani win will shatter the Republican party and guarantee a Clinton victory.
Somebody needs to get ahold of Fred and convince him that the Marriage and Abortion issues are important enough to warrant a federal level (Constitutional) solution.
Even if it is simply saying that he first would like to get done what is doable, a Federalism solution, while working towards the Constitutional solution.
Dobson doesn’t like Thompson, Mitt and obviously Rudy.
Somehow I get the feeling that if he were around 2,000 years ago he and people like him wouldn’t even have endorsed Jesus Christ (R-Nazareth).
Jesus was apolitical.
Some biblical scholars believe that the reason that Judas betrayed Jesus was because he refused to use his power to drive the Romans out of the Holy Land. Judas was a member of a militant group prior to becoming one of the Lord’s disciples. He saw the miracles. According to this thinking, Judas thought that if he had Jesus arrested He would have no choice but to use his power to save himself and smite the Romans.
Instead Jesus told Pontius Pilate: “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and render unto God that which is His.”
Part of the problem with conservatives is that Fred talked to the Arlington group, and they didn’t agree with the wording but felt they could work with Fred.
Dobson jumped in with both feet without talking to Fred. A phone call would have been a good thing. I believe Fred would have willingly talked to Dobson before Dobson started talking without thinking.
Bauer and Perkins are talking with and persuading, Dobson is criticizing without checking the facts.
This could probably have been worked out if Dobson just wouldn’t think out loud [vent] on the air, then blame someone else for the uproar. The interviewer is spreading an incorrect story doncha know.