Posted on 02/01/2008 2:07:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
While John McCain has risen to the top of the heap among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson remains adamant that he will not support McCain’s bid for the White House.
Dobson, one of the nation’s most influential evangelical Christians, declared more than a year ago that he wouldn't support McCain under any circumstances, saying McCain didn't support traditional marriage values.
A Dobson spokesman told the New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick Wednesday that he stood by that position, and as a matter of conscience could never vote for the Arizona Senator.
According to the paper, Dobson is joined by a slew of other prominent conservatives who oppose McCain on a number of issues:
Talk radio host Mark Levin urged visitors to the National Review’s Web site to “rally for Romney” to ward off a McCain win, saying: “Conservatives need to act now, before it is too late.”
Talker Rush Limbaugh told listeners on Thursday: “McCain is in a lot of these places not actually the Republican candidate. He is the candidate of enough Republicans, but [also] independents and moderates and probably even some liberals.”
Pat Toomey, president of the anti-tax organization Club for Growth, said in comments reported by the New York Times: “I have yet to see McCain make any attempts to reach out to free market conservatives.”
Conservatives fault McCain for voting against President Bush’s tax cuts and a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and for supporting embryonic stem cell research, looser immigration rules and stricter environmental regulations.
Conservatives were particularly irked when McCain made a deal with Democrats to break a deadlock on judicial nominations, according to the Times.
Anger over that compromise was rekindled this week when Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund wrote that McCain had privately criticized Bush’s Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito because “he wore his conservatism on his sleeve.” The McCain campaign denied that report.
Following McCain successes in early primary states, however, other conservatives are beginning to warm up to his campaign:
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, who previously opposed a McCain nomination, said: “He has moved in the right direction strongly and forcefully on taxes.”
Former McCain foe Tony Perkins, a prominent Christian conservative, told the Times: “I have no residual issue with John McCain,” adding the candidate needed to “better communicate” his stand on social issues.
Richard Land, an official with the South Baptist Convention, agreed, noting that McCain “is strongly pro-life.” He said: “When I hear Rush Limbaugh say that a McCain nomination would destroy the Republican Party, what I want to say to Rush is, ‘You need to get out of the studio more and talk to real people.’”
Yes, and he did it by questioning the Christianity of Fred.
WAKE UP CONSERVITIVES!
Ditto - Screw Juan McClinton! Liberal legislation will be harder to pass with a liberal democrat as Pres. than a liberal republican. As Juan did with the gang of 14 in the senate he’ll be able to do with BOTH houses as Pres. Very very dangerous situation America is in now.
Nobody should make no mistake about this, the MSM picked the candidates on this one. To conservatism they are enemy #1.
CFR and Gang of 14 are two examples of McCain authored legislation that did enormous damage to the Pro Life movement's ability to influence election outcomes or achieve favorable Judicial decisions. Given that McCain record, hard to see how anyone can consider McCain “strongly Pro-Life”.
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It seems from this thread that he is not alone in his criticism.
That's very interesting information I hadn't read/heard before your post. Do you have source for it?
It will be his infamous legacy.
He should have thought about this before he trashed Fred.
I’ll give another piece of legislation: The Assault Weapons Ban.
and.....
Gun control as a health issue under the control of the Surgeon General.
Ammo as hazardous waste.
Take your pick. We have to go with a guy who is going keep the two Demo dorks out of the white house.
“And those same evangelicals will give the nod to McCain by voting for Huckabee.”
I’m one evangelical that finds both McCain and Huckabee repulsive. Neither will ever get my vote.
however he is right on the mark with his stance on McCain
Good for you. There are quite a few on FR, which is nice to see.
With Al Queda, it's much better to fight the enemy oversees than fight them in my own country. We better know who the enemy is.
With McCain, it would be like fighting Al Queda in this country, in my backyard, with neighbors who would turn me in. That is McCain as president and his effect on the Conservative movement and the Republican Party.
Harsh but true.
History will treat Dobson the same as Perot.
Fred’s humility speaks louder than Dobson ever did.
Authored CFR legislation that seriously crippled the Pro Life’s ability to influence elections. Head of the Gang of 14 compromise that prevented dozens of solidly Conservative Pro Life Judges from being appointed to Federal Appellate Courts.
Being one of a herd who voted correctly on this or that issue does not absolve John McCain of the enormous damage he has done to the Pro Life movement on significant legislative issues that he was the instigator of.
To Dr. Dobson: Unless you are on a slate of electors, you won't vote for McCain either.
Actually....
He’s for Newt.
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Gingrich Tells Dobson He’s ‘Sought God’s Forgiveness’
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tells Focus on the Family Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., he has “gotten on my knees and sought God’s forgiveness” for his personal moral failings in a two-part installment of Dobson’s international radio program airing Thursday and Friday.
Gingrich also discusses his new book, “Rediscovering God in America,” and the rising threat of radical Islam to the West.
On day two of the program, Dobson compares the attitudes of today’s Muslim radicals to the actions of the Nazis in the 1930s — a hatred of Jews and a desire for hegemony and domination.
“It bothers me,” Dobson says, “that many of our leaders don’t seem to get that — Republicans and Democrats.”
Gingrich agrees, noting that “there are 15- to 25-year-old men who are willing to die as long as they kill you.”
“It’s a warrior culture,” he adds, “that has been true historically for 6,000 or 7,000 years.”
The program will be available online Thursday and Friday. Visit the following link to listen: http://listen.family.org/daily/.
SOURCE Focus on the Family
Yep, Dobson deciding that Thompson wasn’t Christian enough is part of the reason we’re going to be stuck with McCain, the only guy on our side who could actually make Hillary look like the family values candidate.
I know us Catholics, Church of Christers, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses are all bound for hell.
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