And Rush Limbaugh didn't directly endorse Fred Thompson, either. He merely said that everyone else wasn't a conservative.
Dobson and his peers did leak the "Fred is not a Christian" smear and made their preference for a real "evangelical" known.
Hmm. let's see. Romney is Mormon, McCain's not an evangelical. Ron Paul is loopy and Hunter is barely treading water.
You're right there was no explicit endorsement for Huckabee there.
Whis is it so hard for all conservatives to simply step forward and say, "Geez, we really screwed up and we're going to have to work together better in 2012!"
Well, I know that Dobson didn’t endorse anyone because I hoped that he’d endorse Hunter. He didn’t endorse anyone. I don’t think Dobson has as much power as you credit him with (and I listen to Dobson on family trips and like him). If Thompson wanted the evangelical vote he could have spoke in the Iowa churches and homeschooling groups and so forth like Huckabee did. Same goes for Hunter. They all missed the boat and ignored the winning group in Iowa.