(Newsmax) McCain Rebuffs Dobson: Will Evangelicals Bolt?

[brooklynite]

from our friends at http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/mccain_dobson_evangelical/2008/05/18/97063.html">Newsmax:

Sen. John McCain's campaign has so far turned a deaf ear to invitations to meet with politically powerful evangelical leader Dr. James Dobson at his Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., raising the possibility that the nation's sizeable evangelical bloc will sit out the presidential race in November.

The move would all but assuring the election of Sen. Barack Obama, columnist Robert Novak argues in a recent column.

Noting that Dobson has indicated he can't support McCain for president, Novak writes that Dobson's opposition to McCain "reflects continued resistance to the prospective presidential nominee among Christian conservatives who are unhappy with McCain's current positions on stem-cell research, immigration and global warming, not to mention his past sponsorship of campaign-finance reform."

But conservatives are surprised that despite the differences between McCain and some key conservatives, he hasn't responded to their olive branches and sought meetings.

As a result of their dissatisfaction, Novak reports that many of Dobson's followers "are looking beyond 2008 to seek a new leader of the conservative movement for the 2012 election."

Nice to see that, three months after Super Tuesday, McCain has been able to pull the Republican coalition together in support of his campaign...

[SpiralHawk]

1. Mohammed McSame is summoned to the Mountain

in freaking Colorado Springs.

Will McSame make the pilgrimage to bend his knee?

Republicon SugarDaddy Rev. "Second Coming of Christ" Moon wants to know.

[rusty quoin]

2. "not to mention his past sponsorship of campaign-finance reform."

What the hell does that have to do with anything about being a Christian? Why isn't Dobson investigated by the IRS? (these questions I ask are rhetorical)

[Fovea]

3. Paris is not worth a mass?

The evangelicals never wanted McCain, and he will have to choose Huckleberry as veep.
Probably sooner than later.

[pepperbear]

4. When he actually "starts" campaigning, a little tea party will be arranged. n/t

[MiniMe]

5. I think that is one reason he is leaning towards Huckleberry for VP

Although Hucktheduck may have blown it when he made that crack about Obama

[msongs]

6. not to mention that obama is not yet the party nominee nt