Dobson Slams Fred Thompson in Private Email

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In a long article about how Fred Thompson has lost the evangelical endorsement many expected him to get (in part because Thompson won’t sign on with a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage), Politico cites a private email from Focus on the Family honcho James Dobson. Dobson wrote:

Isn’t Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won’t talk at all about what he believes, and can’t speak his way out of a paper bag on the campaign trail?

He has no passion, no zeal and no apparent ‘want to.’ And yet he is apparently the Great Hope that burns in the breasts of many conservative Christians? Well, not for me, my brothers. Not for me!

Whoa, boy. Dobson sure is cranky. He’s already said, “I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances” and already written, “I cannot, and will not, vote for Rudy Giuliani in 2008.”

So that leaves Romney. Or a second-tier guy like Huckabee. Or nobody, I guess.

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