Looks like Focus did exactly as you suggested in your last comment. Listen to today’s Focus radio program and the first few minutes are spent addressing the issue, and complaining that Gilgoff didn’t get it quite right. If Dobson made any mistake, it was in talking to a MSM reporter at all.

“After being declined interview requests for more than a year and a half, I was obviously shocked to get a phone call from Dobson out of the blue yesterday,” Gilgoff says. “But I was gratified to learn that he thinks my book gives him a fair shake. I set out to write a book free of bias, which is difficult to do on a subject as radioactive as the Christian Right.”

Now it makes sense. Gilgoff was on CSPAN just last week complaining that after the less-than-flattering title to his book came out (which happened before the book was published) he was shut off from further access to Focus on the Family and he felt like he didn’t get a fair shake from Focus. Then, a week later, he gets a call from Dobson telling him that the book fairly represented Focus. That has to be the connection and reason for the phone call. Then they get into a discussion of current politics, and guess what – you get Gilgoff’s article that started this whole thread and you suspect bad motives on the part of Dobson. You may need to re-examine that.

I don’t support Thompson, but I think some of Dobson’s defenders here are missing the point. It is not whether Dobson is supporting or opposing Thompson — he obviously has the right to do as he pleases in this regard, and to urge his followers to do likewise — the issue is the gratuitous insult Dobson directed at Thompson and at tens of millions of good people, who consider themselves good Chritians regardless of what a narrow-minded bigot thinks.

That still doesn’t mean I particularly like the guy.

Fred Thompson? I like most of what I’m reading about him, except that he voted yes on McCain-Feingold..that worries me.

I agree that Dobson speculating on someone’s Christianity is not a good thing. However, the issue of electability was the point.

Other: Has Fred Thompson even announced he’s running? And how much scrutiny has he actually come under? I would venture to guess that once the media/competitor anal exam began, he would have some things to answer for. And he certainly will be asked to clarify his religious beliefs.

At this point, I would guess our real primary contenders will be (in no special order) Romney, Giuliani, maybe McCain, and Newt and Thompson if they decide to run. None of them are perfect. For myself, I don’t have any faith in the official morality of our government leaders of either party and consider them only Caesars who need to be rendered to. But maybe I’m getting old.