The AP reports:
Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his position and endorse the Arizona senator despite serious misgivings.
“I never thought I would hear myself saying this,” Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. “… While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might.”
….”There’s nothing dishonorable in a person rethinking his or her positions, especially in a constantly changing political context,” Dobson said in a statement to the AP. “Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation. His radical positions on life, marriage and national security force me to reevaluate the candidacy of our only other choice, John McCain.”
Earlier, Dobson had said he could not in good conscience vote for McCain, citing the candidate’s support for embryonic stem cell research and opposition to a federal constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, as well as concerns about McCain’s temper and foul language.
Could this be the best of all possible worlds for McCain? He’s able to reap a possible endorsement from an evangelical heavy who’d previously denounced him without having to risk tarnishing his independent/maverick reputation by having to grovel for Dobson’s support. Good deal.
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posted July 21, 2008 at 10:41 am
This comes from the guy that was willing to back Social Security privatization which would put the burden of risk on grandmothers and grandfathers, not to mention create a whole new bureaucracy like the SEC:
“Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation.”
Such sweeping generalizations, like Dobson’s, are the things of infantile egos.
Dobson endorsed Bush. Hasn’t he helped run our country into the ground enough?
posted July 22, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I was hoping for more thoughtful comments on this post. Yes it was a sweeping generalization and it would be much better for Mr. Dobson to be more specific.
Run our country into the ground? The image that comes to mind is a ship wrecked on a beach somewhere. Or an airplane that crash-landed into the side of a mountain. Did you really mean to use this description? Because if that were true our country would be, well, dead.