Aides to Christian radio personality James Dobson are denying a report that the influential Focus on the Family founder is planning to endorse Mike Huckabee. “Dr. Dobson isn’t close to an endorsement of anyone in the 2008 race,” Focus on the Family senior vice president Tom Minnery told The American Spectator in an email this…

God-o-Meter suspects that the mood is a tad glum over in the Thompson camp this week. In the recent flurry of Christian right endorsements of top-tier GOP candidates, the former Tennessee senator has conspicuously come up empty handed. For a candidate who pitches himself as the only “consistent conservative”—and who some tout as a “southern-fried…

Another day another big-name endorsement from the Christian right. This time it’s Mike Huckabee winning plaudits from Don Wildmon, head of the American Family Association. Wildmon, a seasoned culture warrior and radio broadcaster from Tupelo, Mississippi, announced he is backing Huckabee because the former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher “has the leadership and the vision,…

They certainly aren’t marching in lockstep over there at the Christian Broadcasting Network. While CBN founder Pat Robertson was busy yesterday trying to make Rudy Giuliani more acceptable to evangelical voters, CBN’s political reporter David Brody was sitting down with Barack Obama in Iowa for a revealing interview highlighting the Illinois Democrat’s spiritual side. During…

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