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GOP/FOX Debate Open Thread

FOX Noise has one that started 5PM PST. Right Wing Watch was at the Dobson/Value Voters affair and has a bunch of posts published on it including the contested vote count.

Candidate Name ... Percentage
1. Mitt Romney ... 27.62 %
2. Mike Huckabee ... 27.10 %
3. Ron Paul ... 14.98%
4. Fred Thompson ... 9.77 %
5. Sam Brownback ... 5.14 %
6. Duncan Hunter ... 2.42 %
7. Tom Tancredo ... 2.30 %
8. Rudy Giuliani ... 1.85 %
9. John McCain ... 1.40 % results via TPM

Looks like Hannity had no influence on Dobson's gang and his worship of Giuliani. And the word is that the FRC may run Tony Perkins as a third party candidate...Desi has some FRC gear....

UPATE: John Cole has a series of questions for the candidates...Here's one:

6.) For Rudy specifically: “How many alimony checks does the sanctity of marriage cost?”



Hannity begs Dobson to reconsider supporting Giuliani

Much has been made of the extreme Christian right faction of the Republican party attacking Rudy's candidacy. In a very funny exchange, the GOP master propagandist Sean Hannity---had on James Dobson for about 20 minutes and pathetically begged him to support the top tier GOP candidates for President. Dobson refused emphatically and finally questioned Sean's commitment to true moral values.

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 Dobson: ...and I think by your supporting Giuliani and helping to get the nomination for him, you're about to see the contradiction of most of the things that you stand for.

Hannity: We're friends and we'll always be friends... 

James, James, James, you know Sean is a well paid puppet. Silly you. Dobson said that he can't trust Rudy and if he's elected President he would destroy the Fundie movement. (Well there is that.) He's only concerned with his power base so his priority in the '08 election is to still be able to fund-raise like mad and keep his fangs dug deep into the GOP.


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Talk2Action: ...a billboard went up over I-91 near the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield -- comparing Democratic state Rep. Angelo Puppolo to Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold.

At issue is Puppolo's vote last June not to allow a state constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage to appear on the ballot in 2008. ..."Tactics like this reinforce my belief that I did the right thing," Puppolo told The Springfield Republican. "I voted to keep discrimination off the ballot and out of the Massachusetts constitution."

This group is what Talk2Action calls "the long arm of Dobson." They're "Focus on the Family" funded [see clarification below], and they target small state races (Puppolo is a freshman state rep, for crying out loud) with national money and huge budgets that no state rep can match. Dobson's ilk has no interest in the fact that Puppolo is a devout Catholic, married father of two, who attends Mass every week. Comparing someone like that to Judas Iscariot is desperate, pathetic...and often successful.

 Clarification:  Frederick Clarkson of Talk2Action writes in:   I did not say that National Organization for Marriage or any of the named groups are "funded" by Dobson and or Focus on the Family.

Focus on the Family does set up and work closely with these state level groups, but there is a certain arms length relationship for all kinds of reasons. I doubt any money flows directly from FOF to any of these groups. The relationship, for legal reasons, is less direct.

 Blue Gal adds:  For tax purposes, too.