Dobson, please stay home on election day. Tell your followers to do the same. Show the GOP who really hold the cards.... that'll teach 'em!

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We do not vote to elect religious leaders. Dobson has no right to "publicly" approve or endorse a candidate. I've had enough religion from the White House. Let's go back to the business of running the country. I'll save my own soul, thank you. Huckabee is just another religious nut and McCain appears to have jumped on the bandwagon. Neither of them have a grasp on the economy. That might be a good place to start. Thanks, ANNA

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That's TWO votes McCain won't be getting! Let's keep those commitments to not support McCain rolling in!

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Dobson's an old curmudgeon whose time is passed. The fact that Dobson, once the most powerful cultural conservative in America, can't stop a weak candidate like McCain from sealing the nomination shows just how marginal he and his organization have become. I think this may be the moment that we'll all be able to point to and say this was the exact moment when the religious right died. (Or I could be all wrong and Huckabee could sweep the rest of the red states and waltz into the White House on a wave of religious ecstasy. Who knows?)

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At least McCain has an excuse. Dobson is just a natural born moron.

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Does it strike anyone else as odd that we give tax exempt status to all churches, and then let the preachers tell us who to vote for from the pulpit?
Matter of fact the whole tax exempt issue wouldn't stand the light of day, I don't believe. Can religions own corporations? And what is Dobson anyway--Southern Baptist? I thought Huckabee trained under him.

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Of the FairTax, Huckabee asserts that it's...

• SIMPLE, easy to understand
• EFFICIENT, inexpensive to comply with and doesn't cause less-than-optimal business decisions for tax minimization purposes
• FAIR, FLAT, and FAMILY FRIENDLY, loophole-free, and everyone pays their share
• LOW TAX RATE is achieved by broad base with no exclusions
• PREDICTABLE, doesn't change, so financial planning is possible
• UNINTRUSIVE, doesn't intrude into our personal affairs or limit our liberty
• VISIBLE, not hidden from the public in tax-inflated prices or otherwise
• PRODUCTIVE, rewards - rather than penalizes - work and productivity

A detailed benefits analysis of the plan (from The FairTax Book) explains Huckabee's ardent advocacy:

For INDIVIDUALS:
• No more tax on income - make as much as you wish
• FairTax is paid on retail goods and services when purchased new, not used

• You receive your full paycheck - no more deductions
• Every household receives a monthly amount, or "prebate"
• "Prebate" is "advance tax payback" for monthly consumption to poverty level
• FairTax ensures poverty protection, being less regressive than income tax
• Increased household income preserves real purchasing power against any higher prices

• Reduction of pre-FairTaxed retail prices (due to reduced costs; increased competition)
• 29.9% mark-up yields 23% FairTax portion of new price tags
• FairTax portion of new prices reveal true cost of gov't to consumers

• FairTax is captured on illicit forms of income, when spent
• Parasitic income tax filing industry eliminated
• No double taxation on goods and services
• No more IRS or FILING OF INCOME TAX returns
• Savings is bolstered with reduction of interest rates

For BUSINESSES:
• Corporate income and payroll taxes revoked under FairTax
• Business compensated for collecting tax at "cash register"
• No more tax-related lawyers, lobbyists on company payrolls
• No more embedded (hidden) income/payroll taxes in prices
• Reduced costs. Competition - not tax policy - drives prices
• Off-shore "tax haven" headquarters can now return to U.S
• No more "favors" from politicians at expense of taxpayers
• Resources go to R&D and study of competition - not taxes
• Global "free (and equitable) trade" becomes possible for currently-disadvanted U.S. exports
• U.S. exports increase their share of foreign markets

For the COUNTRY:
• 7% - 13% economic growth projected in the first year of the FairTax
• Jobs return to the U.S.
• Foreign corporations "set up shop" in the U.S.
• Tax system trends are corrected to "enlarge the pie"
• Larger economic "pie," means thinner tax rate "slices"
• Initial 23% portion of price is pressured downward as "pie" increases
• No more "closed door" tax deals by politicians and business
• FairTax sets new global standard. Other countries will follow

Passionately supporting FairTax, Huckabee understands that, if elected President, Congress will have to present the bill for his signature. His call to action goes beyond his candidacy: Main Street will have to demand that their legislators deliver the bill.

(Permission is granted to reproduce, in whole or part. - Ian)

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A comment above asks what Dobson is. He is a part of the Nazarene churches that came out of the Holiness Movement.

From Wikipedia:
The Holiness movement in Christianity is composed of people who believe and propagate the belief that the carnal nature of humanity can be cleansed through faith and by the power of the Holy Spirit if one has had his or her sins forgiven through faith in Jesus. The benefits professed include spiritual power and an ability to maintain purity of heart (that is, thoughts and motives that are uncorrupted by sin). The doctrine is typically referred to in Holiness churches as "entire sanctification", though it is more widely known as "Christian perfection."

So, we might gain some insights into the Dr. Dobson from this. Perfection, after all, is a value judgement that allows no quarter for tolerance. Dobson might be the epitome of the intolerant churchman in America. Like Jerry Falwell, Dobson has been linked to fascist cultist, Sun Myung Moon.

From Cutting Edge, the on-line fundamentalist critics of right-wing Evangelists:

"Dr. James Dobson, Focus On The Family -- 'Dr. Dobson is pediatrician, author and publisher, head of Focus On The Family, a Christ-centric organization and magazine.' [Unholy Alliance. Ibid.] If you have not read Dr. Burns' excellent expose' entitled, "Focus On The Family -- Little Known Facts" we encourage you to get it so you can read for yourself all the New Age, unbiblical, and heretical statements that Dobson and/or his guests have uttered over the years.

"We have already reported, above, on the Moon-sponsored Council For National Policy (CNP), a group that is also tied into the Church of Scientology. Dr. James Dobson has been a member of this CNP. Congressman Woody Jenkins (Newsweek,1981) gushed, 'I predict that one day before the end of this century the Council [for National Policy] will be so influential that no President, regardless of party or philosophy, will be able to ignore us or our concerns or shut us out of the highest levels of government.'"

Basically, how can any true Christians be pro-war as they adopt and use a venacular of peace, such as 'pro-life'. Dobson is one of those who ignore the pacifism of Jesus, Prince of Peace, and advocate unending war against all those who they judge to be not 'perfect'. They have read well the Old Testament and have over looked the NT; esp. the Sermon on the Mount, Matt. chapters 5-8 that calls us to love our enemy, etc.

The TV preachers are apostates who's priorities are politics first, theocracy second.

For a true peacemaker, read Gregory Boyd's book, Myth of a Christian Nation, Zondervan, 2007. This is the best case for separation of church and state by a mega-church pastor, who, unfortunately, is mostly ignored by Evangelicals. Its a great tool for progressives and an easy read. Order one.

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