Unfocused on the Family, Ted Stevens's Dilemma

From the Colorado Springs Gazette, James Dobson is quoted from his radio show: "We celebrate Barack Obama's victory. What he has achieved here is nothing short of historic," Dobson said.

But he said he believes Obama threatens to unravel what Focus and its followers have worked to achieve for three decades.

"I have to say that his win causes me enormous concern because he will be the most committed pro-abortion president in our history. He's in favor of much of the homosexual agency, and he's going to appoint the most liberal justices to the Supreme Court perhaps that we've ever had."

I know that James Dobson is getting older and wants to focus primarily on his radio show, but for the love of God he needs to reign in Tom Minnery. Tom is too fanatically right wing, so much that it has driven him over the edge of reason. He keeps putting Focus in an even more bad light every time he makes a public statement, giving Christians and decent parents a bad image. In a recent fundraising e-mail he has compared Obama's winning the Presidency to the Nazi bombing of England:

"Yesterday evening, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action sent out a fundraising e-mail lamenting the victory of Barack Obama. (Dobson had personally endorsed the McCain-Palin ticket.) The author of the e-mail, Focus on the Family Action senior vice president Tom Minnery, told his readers not to despair, saying that the right wing would overcome this situation just as Britons overcame Hitler’s bombing in World War II:

The spirit of Winston Churchill was alive and well on Tuesday night at Focus on the Family Action headquarters.

You may recall that in the most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill called on his countrymen not to despair from danger but to rise to the challenge. […]

As our incredible team of staff members watched the election results pour in on Election Night, an amazing thing happened that Churchill might have recognized. Despite some sobering disappointments, there was no mood of despair and no “bunker mentality.”

Somehow, I don't think Winston Churchill would be amused... Then again, perhaps they are two peas in a homophobic pod?

It will be interesting to see if the Republican Party rebuilds itself into a more moderate organization, and if that happens, where all of the right wingers go. Will they form their own party or try to take over another one like the Libertarians?

One of the questions confronting the GOP, is what to do with Ted Stevens. If he wins re-election, it will be the first time a convicted felon becomes a Senator. Then they must decide either to support him or ask him to resign. So far the prognosis is for limited support until he exhausts the appeals process...

If he resigns, then Governor Sarah Palin can resign her post and then let her lackey Lt Governor appoint her to the Senator's position. Because I think she likes the national spotlight, and won't be satisfied hanging out in the frozen North... That way, she can be seen and hobnob as John McCain's peer, and not as his bad mistake.