Wingnut Note

I guess if one has pull with Jehovah, it doesn't make any difference when you endorse a candidate.

Not that Dobson's ego is oversize, or anything, but Huckabee's been getting creamed ever since the fluke in Iowa. Does Dobson really think that's because he hadn't endorsed him yet?

I guess Jehovah will make up the difference.

Update:

Here's a wonderful post from publius at Obsidian Wings on McCain and Right Loonistan.

I honestly have no idea who these people think they are dictating terms to John McCain, winner of the Republican primary. All of these demands may have mattered two months ago, but that ship has sailed.

Easy answer: they're who they've always been, putting up a front with smoke and mirrors (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain -- he's gone back to Texas or somewhere) and pretending that they actually have some weight outside their merry band of vote-how-they're-told automatons. (Perkins et al don't seem to have figured out that Rove put together a coalition, and they were only part of it.)

Given the enthusiasm for the Democratic candidates as opposed to that for the Republicans (if turnout figures are any indication), the Dobson Gang might as well start stockpiling Kool-Aid and some chaw for those long evenings on the porch. The only way the Republicans have a ghost of a chance in November is by moving toward the center; McCain knows that.

(If Dobson/Perkins/Coulter and the Ilk were to declare their support, McCain would be dead in the water. Of course, they may not realize that: I don't think they understand that it's their ideology that most people find repulsive. And the fact that I think the country is past the time when you can lie your way into the White House -- not that some candidates aren't giving it a try.)

Update II:

John McKay has some thoughts on Dobson's posturing.

Dobson can't change the behavior of millions of voters, and probably doesn't believe he can (though I'm not entirely sure on that point). If he can convince enough people of the narrative that the election was lost because the Party lost the favor of Dobson, then he will maintain a influence with the people who matter, the pundits and Party leaders who flatter him and the little people who are impressed when they see him flattered and send money to him to continue to be a big man representing their agenda. He doesn't need to actually accomplish anything to advance that agenda to keep the checks flowing in; he just needs to maintain the illusion that he could accomplish something in the very near future if--and only if--the checks keep coming.

Dobson, his influential friends, the Dobson flatterers, and the Dobson wannabes are scared this year. This profitable structure that has been almost forty years in the making is starting to crack and crumble. Dobson is fighting for his life. His tantrum and the narrative of his influence are a desperate throw of the dice. The whole edifice of the religious right and the conservative money machine won't go in one election but, if we're lucky, it will be considerably diminished after November. When the pundits and conservative opinion makers get together to decide what happened, there will be a lot of finger pointing, and someone (several someones) will need to be purged. I expect the ax to fall hard on the religious right, but there will be plenty of blame for others to. Dobson might be able to save his precious influence with this act, but it's just as possible that he will find himself among the purged and retire from politics. It was an ungodly place to begin with, we can expect to hear him sniff.

Music to my ears.