Brother Dobson is threatening to fork a third political party to represent the political party he leads.
On Thursday’s Op/Ed page of The New York Times Dr. James Dobson relayed the minutes of a meeting of “pro-Family leaders” that took place in Salt Lake City the previous Saturday. Those assembled, according to Dobson, unanimously agreed that “if neither of the two major political parties nominates an individual who pledges himself or herself to the sanctity of human life, we will join others in voting for a minor-party candidate.”
Maybe then the Republican Party can go back to being the party of sober, responsible leaders who, on their best days, rightly assume the ‘party of Lincoln’ mantle. I would welcome that for two reasons. One, Democrats will need a counter balance to their traditional rights-pledged positions. Two, churches would go back to treating the things that lie beyond this mortal plane, and leave politics to the politicians.
The (ir)religious right was the brain child of a bunch of narcissistic religious men who had run up against the limits of what one could do in a church. They wanted to extend their influence beyond the pulpit.
But I think that Brother Dobson is just teasing us. His best days when he could call the White House at any time and get Bush or his brain to take his call. He wants those days again.