Has Dobson Endorsed Gingrich?

A better question might be: "Does James Dobson matter anymore?"

After the 2006 disaster for the GOP, the power of the far-right evangelicals is in serious doubt.

The Christian right matters. If it is energized, it can provide some vote power. However, it can be turned off -- the Democrats succeeded with the Foley scandal.

Since the evangelical vote matters, Dobson matters. Anyone who says otherwise is engaging in wishful thinking.

The far-reaching effects of the two men currently occupying the White House and their astounding corruption will have a profound impact on the Christian Right and the republican party in 2008. The backlash by the American people in rejecting right-wing conservatism/extremism will be felt for decades to come. Bush/cheney are making a huge contribution to the ultimate destruction of what influence may be left for Christian Conservatives and right-wing republicans. It is the end of the "conservative era" and as of 2008, Liberal Democrats will control both the White House and Congress. You have only the corrupt traitors in the White House to blame. In the words of Keith Olbermann, the following sums up the reasons why conservatism is finished:

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.

I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.

I accuse you of causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons, and sisters and daughters, and friends and neighbors.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but to stifle dissent.

I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.


I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents.

I accuse you of handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.

And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary, to lie to Grand Juries and Special Counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of becoming an accessory to the obstruction of justice.

Coyote7

The Christian right still matters, even though many won't admit it.

You said: "The far-reaching effects of the two men currently occupying the White House and their astounding corruption will have a profound impact on the Christian Right and the republican party in 2008." You're right, at least, about an impact.

However, the specific impact is hard to predict. The Christian right is not always cohesive or vocal. They tend to go quietly about their lives until something motivates them. But they remain a large block of voters that a good campaign can tap. That's why Democrats have tried to "talk about faith" -- they want to split the block.