Posted on 10/04/2007 5:25:13 AM PDT by Neville72
It hasn't gotten much comment yet, but in his interview on Fox last night, Fred Thompson rather emphatically told Focus on the Family chief James Dobson to take a hike. Host Sean Hannity asked Thompson about Dobson, who has attacked Thompson and made it clear he would not support a Thompson candidacy. "Don't read too much into the Dobson thing," Thompson told Hannity, continuing:
A gentleman who has never met me, who has never talked to me, I've never talked to him on the phone. I did have one of his aides call me up and kind of apologize, the first time he attacked me and said I wasn't a Christian…
I don't know the gentleman. I do know that I have a lot of people who are of strong faith and are involved in the same organizations that he is in, that I've met with, Jeri and I both have met with, and I like to think that we have some strong friendships and support there…
Hannity then asked: "Would you want to have a conversation with Dr. Dobson? Do you think that might help?"
I have no idea. I don't particularly care to have a conversation with him. If he wants to call up and apologize again, that's ok with me. But I'm not going to dance to anybody's tune.
I really like Huckabee, but he will never be given a fair shake. Even, people on FR that you know don’t have a clue repeat the talking points that they have heard.
He is a tease. He is a white Jessie Jackson.
You understand that Dobson never said that?
I suppose this lie has been repeated so much that people are believing it now. Dobson has been and will continue to be demonized, and you and others are inclined to believe the lies about him rather than look into what the facts might be.
I may get my butt flamed for this comparison, but I think it needs to be said.
Dr Dobson saying someone is not Christian is a rough equivalent to Black leaders saying someone is not Black enough.
Just a load of crap to feed an over inflated sense of self worth.
The Bible says to judge not - lest ye be judged yourself. Dobson was pronouncing judgment on Thompson’s soul - big no-no! I am a Christian, but I will vote for a person based on what kind of individual they are. I will look at their past history and decide for myself if they have core principles, integrity & strength of character. I will not make my decision based on what “denomination” they belong to.
It has been my life’s experience that people that go around wearing their religion on their sleeve are among the biggest sinners and con people I know. I’ll take quiet faith any day over public piousness.
I thought during the last two presidential elections that GWB was 'conservative enough.' I was wrong.
Not defending the integrity of our borders in order that more millions of illegals, including islamic terrorists, stream across is treasonous.
We need a president who will close the borders, round up the illegals and deport them along with their anchor babies (an anchor around our necks), cut our foreign aid and take a meat-axe to the federal government abolishing many federal bureaucracies including the DOE and then take a stand against any governmental body publishing anything in any language but English.
Will anyone stop the lies about Dobson? He never said Fred was not a Christian! If you have evidence that Dobson said that, please reference it!
Goodness, the lies spread to smear Dobson....
I think that’s the attitude that all of us Christian voters have got to have. I don’t want to take it too far, but when I voted for GW, I thought I was getting a different quantity than what I actually got. Voting for the “Christian” candidate is not necessarily the best option, although maybe it actually was in the case of Bush. There wasn’t much of a choice back then, either. But voting for the “Christian” candidate is not a panacea, and ought not necessarily be a given, even if you’re Christian.
Good for Thompson. Makes me like him even more.
I want a leader who is fiscally conservative, has moral convictions, believes in small government and the rights of the individual, believes in the strength of the constitution, etc.
I am not voting by "is he Christian enough?".
So you think the GOP is going to be relevant without the Christian vote?
Was that the hardest hitting question posed to Fred last night? I missed the show.
I think they are just as likely to be relevant without it as with it. This is going to be an ugly election cycle.
The spiritual temperature of the leader of the free world should be VERY important to every Christian.
Show the quote-prove we’re liars
Contrast and compare the dims response to the odious moron.org advert.
So, you have a bigoted hatred for “those” bigoted haters. I get that.
You did accomplish this: what you said is dumber than what Thompson said.
Here, here.
I respect Dobson for his family support and views on social issues,
but if you want the gov’t to stay out of our wallets and out of promoting leftist social issues,
you have to disempower it to promote conservative social issues as well.
A limited gov’t in and of itself is systemically “socially conservative” because it doesn’t force a third party to pay for the consequences of immoral behavior. This reduces the occurrences of said behavior.
Dr Jim needs to understand not to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Hear hear!
I’d heard about the “not a Christian” thing, but I guess I missed the news when this second slam against Thompson came out. Would someone please clue me in? What was it, anyway, that Dobson said against Thompson?
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