Heh heh

I also like that Josh Marshall refers to Dobson as a "radical cleric!" Power corrupts even the originator of the University of Minnesota Spankological Protocol.

Another interesting point, btw, comes from Thomas Frank's book "What is the matter with Kansas." He argues that the right actually doesn't want to win the abortion or gay battle because it would remove their big selling point with conservative evangelicals. I don't know about that. Sounds a little like the right's complaint that the left likes keeping people poor so they will vote democratic. Of course, no need for the left to do that, the repubs do a good job of keeping the numbers of poor up. Unfortunately, thanks to people like Dobson, those same people vote for Bush and push for the tax cuts for the rich.

James Dobson - The religious right's new kingmaker. By Michael Crowley: "Perhaps more damaging is the possibility that Dobson gets what he wants. Maybe the GOP will establish an anti-abortion Supreme Court, overturn Roe v. Wade, stamp out gay rights, ban stem-cell research forever, and shut down MTV and cancel The Bachelor. Voters may not be so pleased with the Republican Party after that. Despite the qualms they showed about gay marriage this year, there's no reason to think they want anything like Dobson's Utopia, and they could see a replay of, say, 1998, when the perception that angry culture warriors were running the GOP damaged the party at the polls. In one of his books, Dobson has written of the gay-rights movement that '[e]vil has a way of overreaching.' So does the far right."