Dobson Endorses Huckabee!
February 7, 2008 | By Jack Yoest
Dobsons and Yoests
circa 2005 Your Business Blogger and Charmaine are working CPAC in Your Nation's Capital. Rumors were a-flying that Huckabee would drop out following Mitt Romney's suspension of his campaign.
Dr. Dobson's endorsement of Mike Huckabee on Thursday night changes the political landscape and will end speculation on who leaves when.
Mike Huckabee is in a real battle with McCain for the White House.
Not too many months ago the concern among the GOP-ers was that the evangelicals would split off and form a third party because the pro-life and marriage issues were being ignored by the conservative party.
With Huckabee, the pro-lifers would not have to leave -- the party is still focused on keeping the economic conservatives happy and that was a primary focus of McCain's speech today.
But Your Business Blogger was never really sure that many of the super-rich were conservatives anyway...as Tim Carney reminds us in the Big RipOff.
Charmaine and Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee and staffers.AP
Charmaine in the black leather.
Photo Credit: Alex Brandon
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Thank you (foot)notes:
Full Disclosure: Charmaine has served as a senior adviser to the Huckabee campaign.
See: Are Business Elites Capitalists?
Tim Carney was a panelist at last year's CPAC 2007.
Read the kind words by Sarah Posner at The American Prospect also working the Bogger's Row at CPAC.
Michelle Malkin has another view of the third party option on Hot Air.
Huckabee to Get Evangelical Leader's NodBy ERIC GORSKI
James Dobson, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, is about to endorse former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, The Associated Press has learned.
Dobson, founder of Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Focus on the Family, talked to the GOP presidential hopeful Thursday and later was to release a statement explaining his choice, said Gary Schneeberger, a spokesman for Dobson.
Huckabee had long sought Dobson's endorsement, believing he is the best fit to advance Dobson's conservative, moral worldview.
Until now, Dobson had never endorsed a GOP presidential hopeful during the primary campaign. But he ruled out front-runner John McCain in a blistering commentary on Super Tuesday, and on Thursday the fight for the GOP nomination narrowed to a two-man race between McCain and Huckabee, who is far behind in the delegate count but pledged to fight on. Mitt Romney, a third hopeful trying to claim the conservative label, dropped out of the race Thursday.
Dobson released a statement Tuesday that criticized McCain for his support of embryonic stem cell research, his opposition to a federal anti-gay marriage amendment and for his temper and use of foul language.
