Has James Dobson Created an Opening for Mitt Romney?
by Deal W. Hudson – October 8, 2007 Reprinted with permission from our good friends at InsideCatholic.com, the leading online journal of Catholic faith, culture, and politics. Mitt Romney is seizing the opportunity created by Dr. James Dobson’s threat of a third party candidacy. The Massachusetts pol is positioning himself as the GOP candidate of choice for religious conservatives. How? In a Boston Globe story from October 5, Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for the Romney campaign, said, “Dr. Dobson is keeping an open mind on Mitt Romney, and I think this is because they do share in common so many values.” In short, Romney wants to portray himself as the only major candidate with Dobson’s approval still in the running. Dr. Dobson didn’t take the bait. The Boston Globe reporter, Michael Kranish, called Dobson to get a comment on the campaign statement, but he did not return the call. No one can blame Romney for trying to fill in the vacuum created by Dobson’s negative comments on nearly al
