DOBSON TRYING TO NIP THOMPSON IN THE BUD?

The Pope of the GOP-- or the Lord High Executioner of the Radical Right Department of Fake Religiosity-- James Dobson, wants Newt, Newt, Newt. With actor Fred Thompson surging in the polls, and looking like a Republican that all the factions that hate the crossdresser, the senile double-talker and the Mormon can finally get behind, Dobson put the kibosh on his candidacy today.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson appeared to throw cold water on a possible presidential bid by former Sen. Fred Thompson while praising former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also weighing a presidential run, in a phone interview Tuesday.

"Everyone knows he's conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for," Dobson said of Thompson. "[But] I don't think he's a Christian; at least that's my impression," Dobson added, saying that such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party's conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Thompson, took issue with Dobson's characterization of the former Tennessee senator. "Thompson is indeed a Christian," he said. "He was baptized into the Church of Christ."

Dobson, who is known to have made his deal with the Devil to bring the hated and hypocritical and perverted Gingrich into the White House, dug in his heels. Through a flack he lectured Thompson about what it means to be a Dobson-approved Christian. "We," he emphasized imperiously and in a way I doubt the all-embracing Jesus would ever approve of, "use that word-- "Christian"-- to refer to people who are evangelical Christians." Oh dear.

Dobson who had already vetoed McCain, says he doesn't believe that "the current excitement over Giuliani will continue" and that many evangelicals "would find it difficult" to support Romney "because of his Mormonism." Can you believe that there are people who actually pay attention to their monstrosity from the bowels of Satan? (No, not Romney; DOBSON!)