I love James Dobson but I firmly believe that he hurt Fred Thompson in the primaries which eventually gave us McCain as the nominee. The only good thing about McCain is that he introduced us to Sarah. If it had been an energized Fred and if Sarah was his running mate (and not troubled by “handlers”) the Republicans would be in the White House and the ratios in the House and Senate would be much different.
“I love James Dobson but I firmly believe that he hurt Fred Thompson in the primaries which eventually gave us McCain as the nominee.”
Jim Dobson did hurt Fred, or should I better say that Fred hurt Fred by not agreeing to back a firm pro-life position and/or not showing more interest in his Christian walk. Dobson has been a lead figure amoung conservative evangelicals. Fred basically blew him off. Many of us conservative evangelicals considered that the equivalent to blowing us off. This is old history though and certainly not worth rehashing again.