“Huckabee was the prime beneficiary of the James Dobson authored “Fred’s not a real Christian” misinformation that torpedoed Thompson’s candidacy among many evangelicals.”
Fred brought that on himself. He should have quickly answered Dr. Dobson. The base is the evangelicals, he alienated them. He alienated me when he picked an open homosexual to manage his campaign.
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Fred did answer and visited with Dobson. And when Fred wouldn't kiss Dobson's ring, Dobson slagged him again. Sorry, I view Dobson as being largely responsible for giving Republicans the choice of establishment moderates McCain & Romney and moderate phony evangelical Huckabee -- which ended up sticking us with Juan McLame.
Most conservatives should have been happy to nominate an actual conservative to be President. Unfortunately many evangelicals seemed more interested in nominating someone to be a deacon or elder.
See, this is precisely why the Tea Party avoided any official endorsement of most social issues. Too many evangelicals are so blinded by their single issue (whichever one it is), that any de minimus deviancy from their orthodoxy on that issue sends them too support far less qualified candidates.
For you, it's the sexual orientation of a candidate's employee. For others like Dobson, it's a requirement to make the Human Life Amendment the major plank of Fred's campaign (while not requiring the same standard of Huckabee).
Thanks for proving the Eye Glazers point.