Posted on 01/04/2008 12:24:09 PM PST by Tlaloc
Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said Friday that GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's victory in the Iowa caucuses shows that Christian conservatives still have considerable influence.
Huckabee easily defeated second-place finisher Mitt Romney in Iowa Thursday thanks to a wave of support from evangelical Christians.
"The results of the Iowa caucuses reveal that conservative Christians remain a powerful force in American politics. That had to be a great shock to those on the far left," Dobson said in a written release.
Dobson criticized what he called media elites, saying they had written off religious conservatives.
Huckabee's victory "was evidence of an energized and highly motivated conservative community," Dobson said. "Not bad for a supposed bunch of demoralized, depressed, disillusioned and disengaged Reaganites."
Dobson said he has not endorsed Huckabee and said the former Arkansas governor may not win the GOP nomination.
In the next test, the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, Christian conservatives are expected to be less of a force than they were in Iowa.
Why do you keep saying that when someone responds to me? Afraid to defend your candidate on this ground, are ye?
I don’t recall, and I don’t know that I am equipped to state with any confidence whether any person is or is not an evangelical.
"The results of the Iowa caucuses reveal that conservative Christians remain a powerful force in American politics. That had to be a great shock to those on the far left," Dobson said in a written release.
Dobson exposes his ignorance of, well, everything here. The left didn't get a big shock last night, as Huckabee's win surely confirmed every stereotype they have about Republicans.
WOW!
Those Fredheads are a bunch of idiots aren’t they...
Glad there are just a few of them here on Free Republic or the owner might have to do something about them....
Surely you're not claiming cause and effect there.
So what?
You said “Thompson is not an evangelical, having had some kind of fallout with Dobson & saying “I’m not going to dance to your tune””.
I’d say the same thing to Dobson in the same situation and I AM an evangelical.
It's true! He says YOU inspired him.
No, it is just funny...
I have nothing to defend here...
I cannot understand how unrealistic many social conservatives have become in terms of enforcing their version of ideological purity on their fellow Republicans.
***I don’t see that happening.
I like how COgamer expressed this, so I’m stealing it once again from him.
Some people on this board are PUSHING it. They not only expect us to grin and tolerate it, they expect us to help!! They see conservatives being marginalized, and then bash conservatives for not supporting the politicians who are marginalizing them. It’s insane!
But conservatives are expected to vote for anyone who has an R after their name, no matter how dangerous to the movement, just to avoid the ire of a bunch of wishy-washy phonies whose only brush with conservatism is the fact that they post to this website.
Conservative Christians exist to be used, not to govern. That has been the under the table agenda of the GOP for forty years. In the minds of many on this forum, Huckabee’s success is like a giant turd popping to the top and the question is how fast it can be flushed.
HE cannot win,I believe he pulled out yesterday.He not even in the debates.He’s a rino thats true,but not an electable one.
Being right with Jesus helps, but you also gotta get right with Big Jim Dobson!
You should worry more what he really represents and less what I do.
He’s no Ronaldus Magnus. He’s Fabianus Hucksterbus.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
I do not know Duncan Hunter’s strategy. However, he may yet surprise us even before New Hampshire. Because he has campaigned in Wyoming, which has a race before New Hampshire, and no one else is campaigning there.
Wyoming to Hold Overlooked GOP Caucus Before New Hampshire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947693/posts
Then there’s New Hampshire. Hunter’s already there while everyone else wraps up in Iowa. It’s conceivable that he will have momentum.
Basically, it’s a wide open race, with the lead changing on a weekly basis. Might as well support the truest conservative, Hunter.
Damn, now I have to get a marker and put an initial “F” back on all those “Thompson 2008” yard signs...
And I'll be among the non-evangelicals voting for Huckabee. If Huckabee's appeal was solely due to "evangelicalism", he'd be polling around where Gary Bauer was in 2000.
Depends on how one defines the term. I'm quite sure that Dobson and many others would say he is very conservative.
I have always liked his work, but its time to end the cry of the poor religious right, they are the power brokers, the establishment, and the strength of the GOP.
They must now take responsibility for who they nominate and elect.
Oh, come on. Every group has people like that, not just socons. Remember the Rudy worshippers? Have you checked the Ron Paulites lately? Everyone is trying to 'talk up' their view. (Some are more civil about it than others, of course.)
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