Dr. Dobson's Hypocritical Back-Stepping into McCain's Camp

It wasn't too long ago that Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family claimed, very loudly, that he could never "in good conscience" vote for Senator John McCain for President - the only conservative candidate running for President of the United States.

It seems that Senator McCain simply did not suit Dobson, he couldn't possibly ever measure up. Now, with Senator Barak Obama gaining steam in the national polls, Dobson has backslidden, however slowly, into Senator McCain's camp. If I was anywhere close enough to Senator McCain to give him any advice, I would tell him to thumb his nose directly in the opposite direction of the Born Again Christian who acted anything like a Christian in his treatment of the only Republican, Conservative candidate running for President.

I would encourage the man not to note conservative talk show hosts, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh either - two men whose conservative advice I had followed until this election. I will never turn their radio shows on again, never watch FOX News in the evening when Hannity and Colmes airs. I wonder how many other long time conservatives have made the connection between the McCain nomination and the sudden drop in ratings for both talk show hosts? Without the mainstream backing of Evangelical listeners, the kind of people likely to have voted for Romney instead, Limbaugh, Hannity, and even Dr. James Dobson loose a large amount of listeners and viewers. A nomination for McCain represents a fundamental shift in the American conservative movement, a shift away from the loud mouths who used to run the Republican on air show. Now, the men are noted for hanging up on their disagreeing listeners, only taking calls from the outright liberal or the staunch fundamentalist conservative who either sounds so ridiculously in opposition of the host's views or who will not challenge them at all. In their effort to control the swell of their paychecks, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Dobson are now sort-of, maybe, promising to vote for the man they so easily stabbed in the back just months earlier.

They don't deserve his time. And this long time conservative, who grew up on Limbaugh and Dobson and was guided through the last election by Sean Hannity, has turned the other way, listening to the much more sane, much more balanced Fox morning news and NPR for the news. And even more intelligently, this conservative has decided to vote based on voting records alone, and not on the advice of back-stabbing meaningless opinions from people who have only self-interest and money on their minds - a very sad trait for those claiming Reagan and God as their guide.