Cat Got Your Tongue, James Dobson?

Here's Focus on the Family's James Dobson during the 2000 presidential race, condemning John McCain (R):

McCain has accepted huge contributions from the gambling industry and apparently is comfortable with the proliferation of gambling in American society.  He has also accepted large contributions from producers of alcohol.  McCain is in favor of combat assignments for women in the military, and has sought and received enormous financial and political support from the Log Cabin Republicans and other homosexual activists.  McCain also supports Most Favored Nation status for the brutal regime in China, and voted against our nation's monitoring of Communist Chinese commercial fronts operating in the United States.  He seeks to appease the bloated Federal public school bureaucracy and has refused to support vouchers.

"The Senator," Dobson said, "is being touted by the media as a man of principle, yet he was involved with other women while married to his first wife, and was implicated in the so-called Keating scandal with four other senators.  He was eventually reprimanded by the Congress for the 'appearance of impropriety.' The Senator reportedly has a violent temper and can be extremely confrontational and profane when angry.  These red flags about Senator McCain's character are reminiscent of the man who now occupies the White House."

Here's McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt today:

In what represents a marked shift from the Republican campaign rhetoric of 2004 – where some George W. Bush advisors stoked anti-gay sentiment in an attempt to drive social conservatives to the polls – Steve Schmidt, senior campaign strategist for the McCain campaign, stopped by a Log Cabin Republican luncheon Thursday to welcome the group to the convention.

“I just wanted to take a second to come by and pay my respect and the campaign’s respect to your organization and to your group,” said Schmidt, who many view as the new architect of the Republican Party. “Your organization is an important one in the fabric of our party.”

Maybe I missed Dobson's press release condemning McCain's effort to court the Log Cabin Republicans. Either that or Dobson is every bit the Pharisee that we believe he is.

(By the way, be sure to read Dobson's second paragraph above, as well. As I've mentioned before, McCain is still every bit that same man today.)

P.S. -- Dobson earlier this week:

Dobson: But I can tell you that if I had to go into the studio, I mean the voting booth today, I would pull that lever [for McCain].

Mark Nickolas is the Managing Editor of Political Base, and this story was from his original post, "Cat Got Your Tongue, James Dobson?"

Comments

[Territc]

Fellow Democrats and Obama supporters, let us not get caught up in the heat of these stupid comments by people trying to create issues where there are none. The Republicans know they cannot win this election and will do anything to take us off our course and goal of assuring that Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States of America. So forget their smears and lies, which are not true. We need to go out there and campaign for our candidate. Convert those independents and undecided voters and get them on to Obama"s tickets. We don"t need to waste our time responding to this rubbish - our time should be spent on the campaign trail. A lot of bloggers and people making comments are just pretending to be Democrats or PUMA supporters or even Republicans who are just working to incite and create issues and friction. Obama has shown us how to handle these issues - with calm and dignity. Come On Dems, don"t get caught up in this BS. McCain and Palin are just another bump on the road, which we will flatten.
YES WE CAN!

[Brightlight]

McCain was in Colorado Springs Saturday. Rumor has it, he picked up the fallen icon, Ted Haggard to tour on this "Straight Talk Bus".

[linden]

James Dobson has sold his soul. These so called Christian leaders of today just don't get it. Jesus was not involved in politics, although the Pharisees often tried to trick him. Nothing is more tiresome to me than the sanctimonious drivel of James Dobson and men (and women) like him. It's time to look at the log in your own eye.

[Bitsko]

These folks also love war. They positively revel in it. They don't fight in them, but they're always among the loudest cheerleaders, especially if it's against the heathens. For instance, Pat Robertson has a special hatred against Hindus for having all those thousands of gods. It just creeps him out and he'd love to wipe 'em out. And don't get them started on the Catholics and the Jews. Whoa, Nelly! And the Muslims, forget about it. But they gave Dubya a pass for being bounced on his dad's sheik friends' knees as a boy, cuz he grew up to be a warmongering Christian just like them.

[Rockwell]

If you read the New Testament carefully, Jesus had infinite patience, foregiveness and open arms for all kinds of sinners (the kind that Dobson turns his nose up to) but he had nothing but anger, scorn and contempt for the Pharisees. The Pharisees worshipped themselves and demanded conformity of everyone to their interpretation of the Law. They also had contempt for the poor because they believed it was their own sinful ways that made them poor. Sounds like the Republican Platform, doesn't it.

Dobson, Robertson and the late Fallwell preached a distorted vision of Christ that had more to do with their cultural prejudice than a serious reading of the New Testament. The fancy word for that is Blasphemy.

[FaceYourFears]

Pharisee and hypocrite

[schatsie]

Yup, gambling and alcohol, the best America can do under Bush,.....How about real growth industries? Obama will make us competitive with China and Germany for green jobs.

[gitnu]

"Obama will make us competitive with China and Germany for green jobs."

The German government is broke (I just retired from my job in Germany after living there for 11 years) and in terms of being green, China is a bad joke.

[barackobama4prez]

Anything to win with republicans. ANYTHING.

[Benny59]

I wonder if Dobson is happy that an evangelical who believes in the literal interpretation of the bible is so close the nuclear codes for the first time. Talking about the "end times" sends them all a-twitter...it sends me running for the bathroom. The best way to settle a family values war is to get rid of all the families. Same goes for other religions. Is Palin the end game for the end times? Some heathen country is bound to piss her off eventually and how would she play it out? That is my question about her quality as a leader of this country.

[dumboldfarmer]

Wasn't Dobson the one who was praying for it to rain on the Democratic mile-high finale? And didn't the hurricane happen during the Republican convention? Hmm.....

[indalay]

Yeah, I've been waiting for them to acknowledge how God answered those spiteful prayers...

[AguynamedWayne]

This is actually VERY good news. The fact that McCain's chief advisor would meet with and officially include a gay group into the RNC is a major step in the right direction. We in the gay community must start to realize that we cannot blindly support any one particular political party. Gays must actively court both Republican and Democratic leaders to help in the fight for our equality.

Instead of complaining, we should be thankful that McCain is making that first step.

[DyslexicPalindrome]

Nonsense!
This isn't a 'step', this is pandering and if you think that the Republicans will give a toss about you after they get what they want, then you really haven't been paying attention these past 8 years.

[blaising]

"Log Cabin Republicans"?? I love it!!

BTW, is that a bad thing or a good thing?

[DarthVector]

To rephrase Sting when in The Police:

When the Party's going down,
You take the rest of what's still around....

[portwes]

All my family are Dobson listeners/supporters, and as much as they find McCain a hard, bitter pill to swallow, they will NEVER, EVER, even at the point of a gun, vote for a Democrat. Like Dobson, they hate McCain, but they hate liberals, Democrats and progressives even more.

There is no reasoning or dialogue with these people. They have stopped using the minds as an analytical organ. They vote and act purely on emotion and stomach bile.

[BARRISTER]

portwes, your family are sick people.

[Gidster]

Sad, pathetic and willfully ignorant.
Dobson has spent the last 30 years preching that a woman's place is in the home, and how if you do not beat your kids mercilessly you are a crappy parent!
He is endorsing Palin, now does not that fly in the face of his distorted teachings?
He is a hypocrite. You are being taught a very crooked version of Christianity!

[Jimmyboyo]

I know pharisees and dobson is no pharisee. The pharisees wouldn't alow dobson to clean the mud off of their sandals

[all66]

How about CONTEXT. He said he still has reservations about some of McCain's positions. But, in light of the alternative (Obama) and with the addition of Palin he will vote for that ticket. Lets be honest about the context. Also, let us not forget that both Hillary and now VP running-mate Biden both said that Obama was not qualified or experienced enough for the job. A little intellectual honesty goes a long way. I'm not a huge McCain man, but will vote for him based on the fact that I think Obama is not a good choice at all and the fact that Palin is on the ticket (who I've followed for months, not days).

[SatanicPanic]

What are you from Alaska? No one knew about Palin, don't even waste time peddling that one. Experience is important, but you're happy that Palin's on the ticket? That's some incredible logic there.

[Jimmyboyo]

Dude, Palin can't even do a simple interview for at least weeks. Per the mccain campaign, "she might make a mistake"

Wake up

[kenny453]

Yes, let's! How did you miss the context of Dobson's comments about McCain during the 2000 campaign? The charges he laid against McCain can't be laid against Obama. He's done none of the things Dobson accuses McCain of, yet he's willing to overlook all that venality to defeat the Democrat. It wouldn't matter if the Democrat was Jesus Christ himself, Dobson and all the rest of you would twist your minds around enough to justify voting against him. Dobson, Robertson, Hagee, Falwell, as well as Limbaugh, Hannity, O'reilly, Colter, Ingraham, Barnes, Noonan, et al. All of them hypocrites and frauds, as well as accomplices in the biggest criminal conspiracy to wash over a nation sine Germany in the 1930,s.

[Geoffreys]

Because Palin has so much more youth an inexperience compared to Obama to counter all that extremist Ideology.

[robXdion]

And now they both say HE IS QUALIFIED. Along with Colin Powell, Chuck Hagel, Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Al Gore. You are the one being intellectually dishonest here. After seeing both glaringly different conventions, 19 months of vetting Obama, 35 years of Biden on the public scene, then knowing dam well McCain intends on continuing Bush's insanity, and 5 days of seeing Palin's Bush-league scandals along with her paltry education, the logical conclusion you're lame attempt at intellectual honesty really boils down to racial preference. And that's OK, just be adult enough to admit it.