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Ugh! Don’t be a sucker Mr. Dobson.
Interesting. Good for Dr. Dobson. I hope this will help stop the silly religion litmus test issue.
And a little bit of enlightening pressure didn’t hurt.
Thompson/Romney or Romney/Thompson looks like our best bet, especially the former. Romney would complement Fred well- his youth and vigor would help b/c of Fred’s health problems and his huge fundraising ability would help with Fred’s late start.
But...but...I thought all those evangelicals wouldn’t vote for Romney because he’s Mormon. That’s what the media keeps telling me. Why would they lie?
Romney is a good looking candidate on most issues. My fear is if he was on the ticket, the MSM would hammer him on the “unusual” Mormon views regarding women (like if a woman wants to get to the highest level of their heaven she has to be married to a good Morman male and then be eternally pregnant having spirit babies.)
If you don’t think Hitlery would exploit this you’re kidding yourself.
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I don’t need ‘Doctor Dobson’ to tell me how to vote.
I don’t need anyone’s endorsement to give me “cover” to vote for Romney or anyone else.
In general I like Romney. He’s not my first pick, but if he’s the nominee, I’d vote for him proudly, he is head and shoulders above anything on the Dem side of the line, he agrees with me on most things, he’s clearly intelligent and clearly an adult.
I prefer Hunter, and Thompson, and Tancredo is growing on me, I’m looking for someone bold who can take a pounding. I want someone less willing to compromise than, say, Bush has been. I love the guy, but I’ve had enough of the “kinder-gentler” conservatism, I want the uncut version. Romney strikes me as a conservative in the “lets all work together” Bush tradition. I’m sure there’s a place for that, and if it comes to Romney, then fine. As I say, though, he’s not my first pick.
Dobson: Keep your thinking cap on!
Glad to hear this from Dobson.
I’m a conservative Born-Again Christian but I could easily vote for Romney just because of where he stands on the issues.
I bet a lot of evangelical and conservative Christians have been waiting on the sidelines. In Iowa, about 1/4 of the Republican caucus voters usually side with some openly Christian candidate. Pat Robertson got 23% in ‘88 and Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes got a combined 23% in ‘00. I bet Romney will continue to surge.
What makes Mr Brody think there are "millions of evagelicals" who need such "cover" to vote for a morman?
I’m willing to believe that Romney’s had a change of heart on the issues, particularly abortion. To me, his explanation seems plausible. As I’ve taken more and more advanced biology classes I’ve become more adamantly pro-life. His route of study on the cloning and embryo issues probably paralleled my studies at school, and knowledge only made my beliefs that much stronger.
Instinctively, it seems obvious that a woman should have a right to choose what to do with her own body. But that requires objectifying a fetus as a woman’s property to do with as she pleases, and removing any of the personal responsibility of getting pregnant from her... But a fetus IS a seperate, if dependent, human life. If Romney now believes that, I am willing to take him at his word.
More importantly, the sudden death of Jerry Falwell solidifies Dobson’s stature as the evangelicals’ most influential spokesperson. A flat-out endorsement of any candidate would be huge.
I, however, think Dobson is going to withhold an endorsement until the field narrows more. I would be surprised if he tossed his hat prematurely.
Dobson isn’t gona back Romney after he looks at everything he has flip flopped on. Atleast I hope not.