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Dr. James Dobson, President of Focus on the Family, and a not-so-well-known puppeteer of the Republican Party, was on CNN's Larry King Live, Friday, November 6th. Below is an excerpt of some of Dobson "Pearls of Wisdom" that drive home the point that this man should not be pulling anyone's strings.
The full transcript can be found on CNN's web site at: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/9811/06/lkl.00.html
KING: Could work it this way: if a Republican is pro-choice he gets no support from you?
DOBSON: That's true. That's right....
KING: That can split a party, because, as Dan Quayle said, it has to be open to all of that or you're in trouble.
DOBSON: Well, in order to have unity, if we have to give up these deeply held values, then we'd better split it and get on with it.
KING: So, you're saying if someone is pro-choice, get out of the party; your party should be a pro-life party?
DOBSON: What I'm saying is that you can't drum the pro-lifers, the people who believe in the sanctity of life and the integrity of family, you can't drum them out of the party. If you do, you will never win another election because you can't win without them. Now, admittedly, pro-lifers and pro-family community cannot win elections by themselves, but neither can the Republican Party win without that contingency. It's a very large faction in the party. And there are those that just want to eliminate them.
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DOBSON: Larry, I am concerned about the American public. I have said before that we're in a moral freefall. And I really do believe that. We had a classic example of that here in Colorado just three days ago when the election occurred -- where the people of this state walked into the polling places and voted to eliminate a ban on partial-birth abortion. And we're talking there about what Moynihan has called infanticide.
If you had to watch that, a baby being born eight or nine months along and then see a physician jam the scissors into the head of that baby and suck the brains out -- that's what partial-birth abortion is. It's really murder during delivery. And yet the people of Colorado voted that that's a good thing. There's something wrong with that.
KING: Why do you think they did? Obviously, some case had to be made for the other side. I mean, you're not saying the people of Colorado are idiots -- that some people need partial -- I mean, there have to be medical reasons. Why did they go that way?
DOBSON: I don't know. It certainly would not have happened in my view at any time in American history, but there is this drift in regard to moral principles. And that's what I am talking about -- that concerns me. And politicians will not fix that. That has to begin with a spiritual renewal. And that's where my greatest concern is. I am not a politician. My greatest concern is what happens in the hearts of the people.
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KING: When you say family, couldn't we make a case that anti-tobacco is pro-family because it keeps the father alive; that health care is pro-family so that you stay healthy? I mean there are a lot -- any side say's they're pro-family. I've never met anyone who was anti-family.
(LAUGHTER)
DOBSON: You and I had that debate on the 7th of May, Larry. You want to have it again?
KING: No, no, no. It's just you believe that there are people who are anti-family.
DOBSON: Yes, I do. I think there are people who have very different ideas about the family, and when you tax the family, and you force women to work who don't want to, who want to stay home with their children, and they can't get a break -- my mother was a full-time mother because my dad didn't pay many -- much in taxes. Today there's hardly any choice. We need to preserve the family.
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