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Amen. It took Dobson two years to admit that he had voted for Howard Phillips rather than Bob Dole in 1996. He was calling for Christian conservatives to bolt the Republican Party in the late 1990s, when they had far more practical influence than they do today, yet he insisted they must vote Republican no matter what in 2006, when GOP leaders had basically punted on all social issues for two years (except for the symbolic Terri Schiavo debacle) despite the 2004 values vote.

He's one of the most influential evangelicals, but he really doesn't know how to use that influence in the political sphere.