Posted on 09/19/2007 7:14:10 PM PDT by pissant
Ah thanks, that bio is impressive. I honestly never heard of the guy before, till about a couple months ago.
Either this is idiotic, or it is true....ugh...or both.. =(
..and still folks impugn Dr.Dobson's motives, experience, support...abilities
..they.consider him or his opinions irrelevant, etc.
We are over 500 posts....so 2nd Division Vet, I say he still has 'clout'.
My esteem, respect & admiration for Dr.James Dobson has not wavered in over 20 years...
..This man is the real deal and I treasure his opinions/thoughts/experience.
He doesn't make my decisions for me, but he sure helps shape them....as he does millions of others.
Don't discount this man.
I think people here, and within the party, fail to see that Dobson is just expressing what much of the base already thinks:
Social and fiscal conservatives are battling with bluebloods for control of the party. Dobson didn’t have to tell people to stay home. Many people stayed home because they are sick of the party’s elite choosing lukewarm candidates for us.
Lukewarm candidates are people who are not passionate about what is right or wrong. Lukewarm people really don’t care what happens to their neighbors. They don’s live by fundamental principles like:
Thou shalt not kill.
Lukewarm candidates really aren’s all that concerned about abortion, which they think is just another campaign issue.
It is not.
If one does not defend innocent human life, one stands for nothing.
Dobson is looking at Fred Thompson’s record and coming to the conclusion that Fred Thompson clearly is not all that concerned about defending inocent human life. Lots of us see the same thing, and we don’t need Dobson to tell us what we see.
Did Thompson vote for most of the prolife bills put before him? Apparently, he did. Did he offer any legislation himself to counter the horror of abortion? Not that I have seen.
Does he think Roe v. Wade should be overturned? Apparently not because he keeps trying to suggest each state should decide whther or not the God-given right to life, intended for innocent human beings, should be upheld by voters, as if we have the right to condemn innocent children to more butchery.
Dobson is just reading the tea leaves that are already in front of him. Problem is: Mnay Republican insiders are not.
(hmmm...I remember something about lukewarm versus hot or cold, and how lukewarm was something one should vomit out of one’s mouth...)But I digress.
You tell him Jim!!! I am with Fred!!!!!
Good one!
Yes! Fred isn't perfectly satisfying to me either, but with over a year to go, I wouldn't be so hasty and rule him out. Especially if I had a nationwide following waiting to be influenced (or thought I had!)
Dobson sounds vaguely like a scorned woman in this email, rather than a Christian. There's a scent of injured pique between the lines.
I'll have to see just how Dobson ruled out each of the other candidates, but if he's this cranky with them too, maybe he's just gotten cranky.
The Hunter people love anybody who can tear FRed down. Gives their guy a better chance.
Dobson won’t announce who he’ll support until after the primaries. The short list he’s left himself to support are not going to be THE candidates, and he’d lose clout.
In his e-mail addressed "Dear friends," Dobson includes the text of a recent news story highlighting Thompson's statement that while he was baptized in the Church of Christ, he does not attend church regularly and won't speak about his faith on the stump
Judge not?
The ironic part is that no, it doesn't. Hunter has absolutely failed to "catch on" to the voting public -- much as I predicted, since despite the humongous historical hurdles in his way, he has chosen to run a "conventional" campaign, which means that he is subject to the "rules" that come with that. And "rule" #1 is that no non-incumbent President or VP gets the nomination without having been a Senator, Governor, or (the one modern exception to the rest) a popular general credited with winning WWII in Europe.
You don’t understand the context of “judge not.” Of course Christians are to evaluate and discern. I don’t sense any condemnation or hypocricy in Dr. Dobson’s evaluation of Thompson in this private e-mail he sent to some friends. Do you?
I like Alan Keyes. He knows he has zero chance of winning. He is in to get out his message - which is a good one.
Heck - I would like to actually see an Alan Keyes presidency-— would put the fear of God into liberals everywhere.
BTTT
Huh? Private??
Not "most". All.
Did he offer any legislation himself to counter the horror of abortion? Not that I have seen.
He did not. He has admitted that prior to the birth of his children with Jeri that he was not a pro-life activist. Also, his eight years in the Senate were mostly focused on government reform and accountability.
Does he think Roe v. Wade should be overturned? Apparently not because he keeps trying to suggest each state should decide
This is a woefully uninformed comment. Do you know what will happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned? The issue will return to the states, exactly as was true prior to Roe v. Wade, and that matches Thompson's position exactly.
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