Have you ever read any of his books or hear his radio show? When I was a counselor at a Crisis Pregnancy Center Dobsons FOF helped all the CPCs out so much. He is a well respect man in the Christian community. He always took a lot of heat from the left because he was one of the first Christian leader to warn about the gay agenda.
I used to listen regularly to his radio show.
From a practical matter, no matter how Godly Rick Santorum is, he cannot win. Dobson’s attacking of Newt’s wife was just plain hateful. Rather than being righteous losers, we need to get Obama out of office. Some Christians have a purist, nihalistic quality about them, and I don’t know for a fact that Dobson is one of them, but he could be.
Why would a Christian endorse a candidate who cannot win?
Oh, that's RICH.
Dobson's actions are making it MORE likely that Romney -- who is ON RECORD sanctioning "Gay Youth Pride" for middle school children -- will get the nomination. A man who has led children to sin -- and so many people here are READY AND WILLING to vote FOR such a depraved person! As if having that on your Christian conscience is somehow justified for voting "against" Obama!
Santorum is considerably less experienced than Gingrich. Gingrich has a PROVEN RECORD of helping bring Reaganite conservatism and positive changes to this country; Santorum was at most a minor fringe player in that effort. And although his supporters vehemently deny the solid evidence and record, Santorum likes big government as much as anyone in this race.
In terms of proven ability, Gingrich is CLEARLY the better choice compared to Santorum.
But people like Dobson and many Santorum supporters are above such sinners as Gingrich! Oh, yes indeed! They can't bear to dirty their hands by supporting Gingrich! But I take heart because there ARE Christians on here who think a little more clearly about what would please God; a fellow FReeper Christian beautifully and truly describes Gingrich as "a humbled man who has been broken by his sin, who has repented and been forgiven, and as a sign of God’s grace in his life, has been given this opportunity in his declining years to lead the American people back to our own promised land, the land of liberty, morality, decency, goodness, godliness — and prosperity."
And Rick Santorum stands there and exhorts us to "vote your values," and anyone with an honest heart KNOWS that what he really means is "even though Gingrich has apparently done his penance with God regarding marital infidelity and strife, I'm better than he is because I'm still married to the same woman."
And because of such stupid, ugly, misplaced pride and vanity, Santorum AND DR DOBSON are risking, in a big way, a situation where they may end up voting FOR a politician, Romney, who has endorsed the open embrace of homosexuality among schoolchildren.
It seems to me that pride and vanity are behind Dobson's endorsement and Santorum's hopes. Gingrich is SEASONED. He's PROVEN. Santorum is a candidate to appeal to "better" Christian's egos and vanities.