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?"
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YES WE CAN!
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.
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.
Instead of complainin
This isn't a 'step', this is pandering and if you think that the Republican
BTW, is that a bad thing or a good thing?
When the Party's going down,
You take the rest of what's still around....
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.
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 mercilessl
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 Christiani
Wake up