Minor Thoughts from me to you

Earlier this year, James Dobson stated that he would never endorse Fred Thompson for President. (Not only that, Dobson decided to question Thompson's faith, without every actually meeting him.) I like the way Thompson recently responded.

A gentleman who has never met me, who has never talked to me, I've never talked to him on the phone. I did have one of his aides call me up and kind of apologize, the first time he attacked me and said I wasn't a Christian...

I don't know the gentleman. I do know that I have a lot of people who are of strong faith and are involved in the same organizations that he is in, that I've met with, Jeri and I both have met with, and I like to think that we have some strong friendships and support there...

I don't particularly care to have a conversation with him. If he wants to call up and apologize again, that's ok with me. But I'm not going to dance to anybody's tune.

I don't know if I'll vote for him. But I like him anyway.

According to a newly-published article:

"Some of the nation's most politically influential conservative Christians, alarmed by the prospect of a Republican presidential nominee who supports abortion rights, are considering backing a third-party candidate."

"Some" includes James Dobson, famous founder of Focus on the Family, and Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, both of whom attended a Las Vegas meeting with "more than 40 Christian conservatives" to discuss what to do about religious conservatives' "mistress" status in the Republican Party. It may have even included Tim LaHaye, author of the "Left Behind" books and now a mover-and-shaker himself as a founder of the shadowy Council for National Policy.

Should these names be lost on you, the AP's source concerning this event puts it plainly enough: President Bush "would not have been elected in '04 without the people in that room."

These are the people who have finally wizened up to the fact that religious fundamentalists are to Republicans what black people are to Democrats, and according to the source, they're ticked. So they're talking break-up.

Just maybe, that is. Perhaps, you understand.

Hopefully, you know - for oh so many reasons.

And I say that knowing I almost certainly wouldn't even vote for them.