First, I can’t do math. McCain‘s delegates plus all of Romney‘s delegates (assuming they go for McCain) equals 1,123, not 1,191. Close, but not all the way. Second, Mike Huckabee says that Romney is just giving in to peer pressure to be in with the cool kids. And finally, here’s McCain with his new Romney-‘do. […]
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ROMNEY TO ENDORSE MCCAIN.
Mitt Romney is set to endorse John McCain this afternoon, and to ask his delegates to swing their support to him. If they all do, McCain will have enough delegates to win the GOP nomination. There’s a lot of bad blood between the Romney and Huckabee camps; the Romney backers think Huckabee killed his nomination […]
HUCKABEE’S STEALTH SUPPORTERS AIM FOR TEXAS.
The Dallas Morning News reports that evangelicals in Texas are aiming to help Mike Huckabee in the upcoming primary there via a new PAC, Texans for Conservative Principles. Federal Election Commission filings show the PAC’s treasurer is Keet Lewis, a Dallas businessman who told the Wall Street Journal last week that he donated $1 million […]
RELIGIOUS RIGHT STILL NOT DEAD.
Lately I’ve been bombarded with The Question: Is the religious right dead? The answer is still no. No doubt, some evangelical leaders, weary of the hateful rhetoric used in the name of their savior, outraged by the hypocrisy of the movement’s fallen moralizers-in-chief, and disappointed they were duped by Bush’s “compassionate conservative” pabulum, are forcing […]
THE GAYEST PERSON EVER MEETS FOCUS ON THE FAMILY.
Via Joe Bob Briggs at the Wittenburg Door’s blog, who calls himself the founder of Focus on the Dysfunctional Family, comes a preview of a book due out in May, Joel Derfner‘s Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever: Swish . . . is a book that Dr. Dobson will probably want to […]
The FundamentaList (No. 21)
Is the religious right cracking up? We answer your questions about the state of evangelical America.
DOBSON ENDORSES HUCKABEE.
Late last night James Dobson endorsed Mike Huckabee for president, saying that after Mitt Romney dropped out of the race there was only “pro-family” candidate left in the race that he could support: His unwavering positions on the social issues, notably the institution of marriage, the importance of faith and the sanctity of human life, […]
MCCAIN’S SURPRISE.
I caught up with some dejected Romney supporters, college students drinking in the hotel lobby shortly after his “suspension” speech. They grudgingly admitted that they would support McCain (although one expressed the faint hope that I caught up with some dejected Romney supporters, college students drinking in the hotel lobby shortly after his “suspension” speech. […]
ROMNEY DROPS OUT, CITING THREAT OF “ISLAMIC RADICALS.”
I’m here at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, where I rubbed shoulders with I’m here at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, where I rubbed shoulders with Michelle Malkin (literally, she was going into the women’s room as I was leaving), and where Mitt Romney just announced he is “suspending” his campaign. There was […]
HUCKABEE TO DOBSON: YOU’RE JUST THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF.
In response to In response to James Dobson’s repeated statements, including yesterday’s, that he would not under any circumstances vote for John McCain, Mike Huckabee retorted this morning that Dobson, Rush Limbaugh and others who are slamming McCain are egomaniacal self-promoters. (OK, I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist, and really, who could disagree?) About anyone […]

