When A Non-Endorsement Is An Endorsement
We find ourselves in the midst of a very tight political race as candidates are working hard to get the nod from their particular political party to run for President in the upcoming election. We just made it through Super Tuesday and while some candidates won what they call key states, the race is still tight. Another thing taking place are all the endorsements, and even what I’m calling non-endorsements.
The Republicans are looking for the so-called perfect conservative candidate. This of course leads to much name calling. Just what does the perfect conservative candidate look like? That all depends on which side of conservative you happen to fall on. Whatever the case may be, there is a very disturbing, for me anyway, trend taking place. The noise of talk radio is trying to crown the best conservative candidate, and they’re really pig-piling on some, while others are held up as the next messiah.
But even more amazing, are two recent developments in the GOP race. I was surprised when former Senator Rick Santorim came out and very vocally endorsed former Governor Mitt Romney. I’m surprised because Santorim is a conservative evangelical Christian, who’s decided a mormon is the man for the job.
However, when James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family came out yesterday backing Mitt Romney, I was even more suprised. Of course Dobson seems to have discovered how to use political double-speak very well all in the hopes of protecting his 501C-3 status. Whatever political gobbledegoop Dobson wants to use, the bottom line is, he’s endorsing Romney.
A letter from Dr. Dobson was read on the Laura Ingraham show yesterday in which he listed the reasons he would not vote for Senator McCain if he receives the nomination from the GOP’s to run for President. The letter went as far as to say if McCain wins the nomination, Dobson will “sit out” the election and not vote for anyone. That is very sad and if he does such a thing, then he has no right to talk about the government because he decided to not be involved in the process. After the letter was read, Ingraham, who’s having a love-fest over Romney these days, says every conservative in the United States should vote for Romney. Of course she too says she’s not trying to sway votes, she’s just putting out the information. Yeah, sure, right. Laura spends most of her show trashing all the other candidates and loving on Romney.
Even more disturbing is the fact that after she read the Dobson letter she went on to say, “Okay all you evangelicals out there. A major evangelical voice, James Dobson, has just endorsed Mitt Romney. That means you need to dump former Governor Huckabee, line up and vote for Romney.” Wait a minute, I thought she was just putting out the information, not telling people how to vote.
Now I was once again surprised that James Dobson would endorse Mitt Romney. So, I called Focus on the Family. Of course they told me he’s not endorsing anyone, but they did go on to say James Dobson did another radio interview yesterday where he said he would vote for Mitt Romney.
Call it what you want Dr. Dobson, your non-endorsement, just turned into an endorsement for Mitt Romney.
Yesterday everyone was saying Huckabee should drop out of the race because he’s holding back Romney’s chances to beat McCain. Reality is, the vote is still split three ways, and in some cases Huckabee is running ahead of Romney. So, maybe the call should be for Romney to quit because he’s splitting the vote. Funny thing is, the love-fest continues over Romney, from those who say they’re not endorsing him, and the thought of him holding back Huckabee will never cross their minds.
Just my two cents,
Dr. Rus
