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James Dobson on Fred Thompson: “Not for me!”
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dgilgoff
Watching the giddiness of top-tier Christian Right leaders for Fred Thompson steadily wane in the two weeks since he officially entered the race, God-o-Meter’s needle has ticked further downward with each passing day. This morning, with news of a leaked email from Focus on the Family founder and evangelical political powerbroker James Dobson saying he…
Huckabee wins values voter straw poll
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dgilgoff
Even if just showing up is 80-percent of success, God-o-Meter was nonetheless surprised that Mike Huckabee won 62-percent support in a straw poll of religious conservatives taken in conjunction with last night’s Values Voters debate (video here) in Florida. Sure, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and John McCain skipped the debate, calling its relevance…
Romney releases anti-gay marriage ad in Iowa
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dgilgoff
Who was it that predicted a few weeks ago that a ruling by a Polk County, Iowa judge would turn into a gift for Mitt Romney? Oh, right—that was God-o-Meter! Romney is out with a new radio ad in Iowa rehashing his fight against same-sex marriage as governor of Massachusetts, where the state supreme court…
Brownback calls Huckabee weak on values
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dgilgoff
After trailing him in last month’s Ames straw poll and failing to get anywhere near the media attention, Sam Brownback is still beating up Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, for being insufficiently conservative on social issues. In a release sent out shortly after last night’s Values Voter debate the Brownback camp said Huckabee showed…
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