just look at the stupid spokesmen he gives us. Since I’ve been getting all nostalgic about the Reagan era, I suppose I should admit to the aspects that I wish would die more quietly.
If Fred Thompson runs and does well and simply demonstrates that a broadcast center in Colorado is not in charge of North American Christendom, he will have done Evangelical Protestants a favor.
I know I get a lot of Evangelical traffic. Many of you blog. If you blog, make a point of expressing a brief opinion about whether or not James Dobson needs to “dare to discipline” his mouth when he’s talking to US News. And to praise Gingrich in the same phone conversation!? You can listen to Gingrich’s “confession” here (as “video, but it’s just a still picture with audio). This guy compares favorably to Thompson? In what universe?
If you think I’m missing something please leave a comment. To me it seems obvious that Dobson has been put in a position for which he is not remotely qualified.
(Hat Tip: Bobber)
ADD: This Time article has more from the Gingrich-Dobson interview. You can judge for yourself but, if anything, it makes me even more outraged by what I see as Dobson’s lack of wisdom and prudence.
Steven Colbert put up a picture of Dobson and then dressed him up like the Pope. His satire often gets it more right than evangelicals care to admit.
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Mark,
Another thought on Dobson/Gingrich:
I ran for the U.S. House in 1996 as a member of the “Constitution Party” in Pennsylvania. To give the media people who were interviewing me a starting point, I frequently mentioned that my views were close to those of the House Majority Leader – Dick Armey. Inevitably, they would respond by asking if I was trying to distance myself from Newt Gingrich, to which I had to explain that I didn’t think that Speaker Gingrich was a conservative but a political opportunist. This was always a difficult sell because, at the time, Gingrich was regularly portrayed as being in the extreme right wing of American politics.
Nothing in the ensuing 10 years has convinced me that Speaker Gingrinch is a man of deep integrity. Perhaps this presents so little difficulty to evangelicals who are so politically opportunistic themselves. Unlike nature, in politics – like attracts like.
David