Dobson: No on Fred Thompson
by Ryan Sager
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 1:56 PM
updated Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 2:43 PM
Evangelical leader James Dobson seems not to be terribly enthused about the Fred Thompson for president campaign:
"Isn't Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won't talk at all about what he believes, and can't speak his way out of a paper bag on the campaign trail?" Dobson wrote.
"He has no passion, no zeal, and no apparent 'want to.' And yet he is apparently the Great Hope that burns in the breasts of many conservative Christians? Well, not for me, my brothers. Not for me!"
I've been writing a bit about how Mr. Thompson's cultural federalism could prevent him from becoming the voice of the institutional social right. Average voters seem to trust him as a social conservative. But the people who run the big social-conservative groups know that his agenda is less absolute than their own. I suspect the average voters are more important in this equation, as far as winning primaries, which would explain why the Thompson folks don't seem all that worried.
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