Focus on the Family Action sent this around to supporters just before last night’s Palin’s speech: Dr. Dobson: ‘If I Went into the Polling Booth Today, I Would Pull the Lever for John McCain’ ….”A genuine reformer. A deeply committed Christian.” That’s how Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family Action,…

The two speakers at tonight’s convention who will vie to lead the GOP in 2012, should John McCain fail this year, are Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. What’s the biggest difference between those two candidates and McCain? It’s that Romney and Huckabee campaigned as pro-family candidates, painstakingly wooing the Christian Right, while McCain has ignored…

The New York Times reported this morning that the McCain campaign recently requested a meeting with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. ‘In July, when James C. Dobson, the influential founder of Focus on the Family, said on his radio broadcast that he, too, might drop his staunch opposition to a McCain presidency, campaign…

John McCain’ nomination for president once represented the waning of the Christian Right after the high watermark of its influence in 2004. Then Sarah Palin, a darling of the movement, became John McCain’s veep pick. The movement seemed to have some influence left after all. And the AP reports a mostly overlooked story about the…

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