For years the primary media outlet for Gary Bauer has been James Dobson and the Focus on the Family broadcast. That fact was the basis of our comment "and you can tell Dobson we said so" in our statement of disgust over Bauer's traitorous endorsement of McCain last week.
Evidently we were not the only ones that were jumping on Dr. Dobson for failing to keep his boy in line. The following press release explains the sentiments of Dr Dobson on the matter.
Colorado Springs - Speaking as a private individual and not as the president of Focus on the Family, Dr. James Dobson expressed disagreement yesterday with former presidential candidate Gary Bauer's endorsement of Senator John McCain as Republican nominee for U.S. President. The Senator has offered no assurances that he intends to appoint a pro-life running mate or pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Indeed, he voted for pro-abortion Stephen Breyer and pro-abortion ACLU activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg for that Court and for David Satcher for Surgeon General, who supports partial-birth abortion. McCain also voted in support of President Clinton to expand fetal-tissue research.
Furthermore, McCain has accepted huge contributions from the gambling industry and apparently is comfortable with the proliferation of gambling in American society. He has also accepted large contributions from producers of alcohol. McCain is in favor of combat assignments for women in the military, and has sought and received enormous financial and political support from the Log Cabin Republicans and other homosexual activists. McCain also supports Most Favored Nation status for the brutal regime in China, and voted against our nation's monitoring of Communist Chinese commercial fronts operating m the United States. He seeks to appease the bloated Federal public-school bureaucracy and has refused to support vouchers.
"The Senator," Dobson said, "is being touted by the media as a man of principle, yet he was involved with other women while married to his first wife, and was implicated in the so-called Keating scandal with four other senators. He was eventually reprimanded by the Congress for the 'appearance of impropriety.' The Senator reportedly has a violent temper, and can be extremely confrontational and profane when angry. These red flags about Senator McCain's character are reminiscent of the man who now occupies the White House.
Gary Bauer's endorsement of the Senator is troubling for another reason. When Clarence Thomas was being considered for Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Bauer actively championed his candidacy. However, Warren Rudman, who is John McCain's National Campaign Chairman and his most likely choice for U.S. Attorney General, was a pro-abortion Senator who opposed confirmation of Clarence Thomas, despite the fact that he, voted for him in order to get 3 federal judgeships approved. He said about the Thomas decision, "It's a vote I'm not proud of'."
Given these concerns about McCain, it is difficult to understand how Gary Bauer can support him "with great pride and with absolutely no reservation."
This statement is not intended to imply Dr. Dobson's endorsement of anyone else's candidacy for the presidency -- simply to clarify his lack of support for Senator McCain.
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