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.
JimRob has a thing or 2 to say about the definition of conservative.
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Fred Thompson did not ask for Dobson’s attack
***It was a leaked internal email, wasn’t it? More like a mistake than an attack. An attack is more overt.
I have not addressed you as “she” since you cleared it up.
The lurkers among us would be advised to know that Petronski likes to call lots of freepers liars, usually over some miniscule detail.
Scary, huh?
You’ll be joining the dark side soon... we have cookies.
Hmmm, let's go to the tape.
You won’t get responses from Petronski that do NOT stir the pot when it comes to James Dobson. She called him a jackass.
Who is the "she" in that statement?
I didn’t make any statement about Fred there, the other poster did.
Minuscule details like reality v. false statements.
Yup, I’m a guy. There was some kind of thread where people posted their identity & age a while back, but I don’t know where it is. I think O’Malley posted it.
The miscommunication with Petronski came up because someone (I think Pissant) in a prior post called him Betty, and I thought that was Petronski’s first name. Petronski didn’t correct that earlier post. Petronski didn’t bother to correct my post until he was thoroughly wound up real tight, which is kind of how he approaches things as far as I can tell. Petronski likes to get worked up over small things.
he is the only real conservative in the race.
***Duncan Hunter has a better conservative record than Thompson.
As I’ve written, I’m not going to vote for Huckabee in the primaries. “Christian socialist” seems to be a fairly accurate term for him. Like you, I’m planning to vote for Fred Thompson. Unlike you, I’m not going to ridicule Christians.
Petronski, I apologize. I still slipped into the mode of thinking you were a lady rather than a guy. If I could, I would rewrite that sentence into “He” rather than “She”.
Sure. Blame the victim.
Oatmeal?
Oatmeal?
Very petty indeed. You're just very loose with facts.
He is confusing you with Rudy....
Comparing post 166 to post 169 gives you a pretty good idea what’s been going on here.
I haven’t been in a high kick line in fifteen years!
Why won’t you let me ex-cape my past!?! Leave me alone!
There Petronski goes again.
Here’s an example where Petronski stalked me from thread to thread over ONE LINE in a post. Let the lurkers among us see for themselves whether the meaning was even changed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922961/posts?page=38#38
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