Dobson: “If Rudy Wins the Pro-Life & Pro-Family Movement Is Gone”
Posted on October 8, 2007
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
I admire standing on principle. I’m undecided, but I can tell you this much. I won’t be voting for Rudy. However, I differ greatly with Dobson on this overall. I don’t see much difference between Rudy and Hillary. If thats what it comes down to, I probably won’t vote. However, several other candidates would be much preferable than the disaster America would face with Hillary as President. So for me, a third party candidate is pretty much out of the question…or they would have to be one heck of an attractive candidate.
I do hope that someone out there in the Republican Party is paying attention to this serious controversy. The last thing Republicans need right now is to split the party in two a year before elections!
I respect Dr. Dobson and admire his principles and even some of his thinking in this interview. I don’t agree with his conclusions, but I respect how he gets there. He’s a man of principle and his principles are sound. I do think that he’s mistaking the world of politics as a place where perfection and purity are possible, when it’s neither. It’s not even close.
Click the link and read all of Bryan’s opinion.
Looking at it from his point of view he appears to believe that if Rudy is elected, or Fred, then his movement is dead and will take a long time to recover. While this stand is principled, it will make abortion more likely, not less. Hillary gets in and puts a liberal on the court and you can kiss ever getting Roe overturned. His refusal to acknowledge this is smugness to the nth degree. Rudy may not be perfect for his movement, but its completely childish behavior to demand he get his way or no Republican gets in.
Apparently, it is better to commit political suicide than to, you know, actually accomplish anything. Dobson’s zeal to protect the unborn will lead him to abandon the actual born - and any real chance to protect the unborn in the long run. What chance do the unborn stand if the courts are packed against them?
Wow! Looks like his over reaching zeal is causing some backlash and alienation from Conservatives.
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I would vote for Hilary before Rudy as I do not want to see the Republican party move left on social values. A third party social conservative would be better. I think Zell Miller or someone like him might be the best idea as he could attract economic liberal voters who are also social conservatives and hurt the the Democrats as well as the Republicans. That would surely shock both parties and may even give the victory to a social conservative.
Anyone that would vote for Hillary in any instance will be responsible for the economic woes and the downfall that we experienced the first time under the Clintons. She should be hung for treason now, and you would vote for her? How stupid. James Dobson is a man that garners way too much attention, alikened to Al Sharpton.
He endorses many things contrary to Christianity to begin with, such as New Age Guru and deciever Rick Warren. He uses paganistic and Christ defying psychology as answers that are the opposite of Christianity. My answer is take your movement and go home.
A third Party is what caused many of the problems of the mid 90’s in America. It (Ross Perot) gave us the Clintons who screwed up the CIA, raised taxes to the point of killing the economy. Downgraded our military and intelligence to the point of disaster and 911. We had 3 spies in the whole mideast by the time Clinton was out of office.
The Dow was at 7000 when he left office, it is now at 14000 and alltime highs.
Unemployment was at 6.3% and its best under Clinton was 5.7% as opposed to the averafe of 4.6% under Bush and as low as 4.5%
Fred Thompson has a very conservative and consistant voting record. James Dobson’s assessment is completely foolish and he is grossly uninformed.He is a complete fool regarding this. He needs to just shut up.
As a native New Yorker and a conservative I CAN vote for Rudy. He tried to prevent Arafat from coming to the United Nations ( Only did the Clinton State Dept intervene). He tried to stop the attack on Christianity with the Elephant Dung Painting issue. He reduced crime and was called a racist because the majority of the criminals just happened to be black. Rudy is NO Hillary.I was waiting for Newt. Now its either Rudy or learn to say ” Madame President”.
Any one who votes for Hilary is just helping the terrorist gain another attack on American soil as Sandy Burglar is now back in the saddle again! The Clintons are a national Security threat when will people wake up did the 9/11 attacks not open peoples eyes as the Clintons kicked dirt on knowing about the attacks and having sandy Burglar destroy notes from Bill Clinton about the pained attacks. Anyone would even think this ludacris about having a Clinton in Office. My question i like to find the answer to is when Bill Clinton was impeached is he not allowed in Office anymore.
If it’s Rudy vs. Hillary, I’m writing in Mickey Mouse.
Mickey Mouse is evil. I’m not sure who is more evil, Mickey or Hillary.
Spot-on! What Dobson needs to do is to just shut up!
Why? If you stay home, it goes down in the scorebook as “apathy”. You’re not apathetic. Voting for a third-party is like voting “Present” in congress. It says “I’m here and I’m willing to vote, if only you’ll present me with some real options.”
Actually, he’s taking a long term approach, something children are specifically unable to do. He’s willing to accept some bad medicine in the short run in order to achieve his long term goals.
Yet hurt his own movement more in the long run by doing so.
Dr. Dobson doesn’t rate being demonized. He is one of the two men I most admire in this world (my father being first). He is Christ-based and Christian-principled. I, too, am pro-life to the bone. But I differ with Dr. Dobson that a wobbly Republican would somehow be worse than a clear-cut, pro-abortion Democrat. A clear-cut, strongly pro-life Republican is indeed the ideal — and that is, I think, what Dr. Dobson is pushing on the Republican Party to choose — but if that doesn’t happen are we to shoo in the exact opposite by voting for a no-chance third-party candidate or by not voting at all?
Let us not divide-and-conquer ourselves. Nor demonize our principled allies.
Clearly he doesn’t agree with your prediction, Jay.
The way I see this is that it is a God v Money. I chose to follow God and therefore social values are more important to me that economic ones. I understand others worship Money and I will ally with them and help them achieve their goals if they will help me achieve mine. Rudy does not so I have no loyalty to him and certainly not to his false God.