Dobson Says He Plans to Vote for McCain Palin

Though Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family has been lukewarm at best in his support of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, today’s announcement that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is joining McCain on the ticket seems to have finally broken the ice for Dobson.

Radio talk show host and columnist Dennis Prager interviewed Dobson on his show today.

The best Dobson has been able to come up with for the McCain ticket so far has been, “I might.”

Dobson recounted the feeling he had when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, and said

I feel very much that way today. Maybe that’s an overstatement. Maybe time won’t validate it, but this is a very exciting and encouraging day for conservatives and pro-family activists.

After conceding that politicians and campaigns don’t always turn out the way you had hoped, Dobson answered Prager’s question about whether he believed he could actually vote for the McCain ticket:

But I can tell you that if I had to go into the studio, I mean the voting booth today, I would pull that lever.

Dobson described what it was like when he and a number of other conservatives–many of them Christians–heard Sarah Palin’s speech:

I was just with about 300, maybe 400 people in a large auditorium, and they put Sarah Palin’s speech on the screen and we sat there and watched. I’m telling you it was electric. These were conservatives, you know. They were mostly Christian, but not all of them were. I mean to tell you, it set that crowd on fire.

Today’s developments have invigorated the Republican grassroots like nothing seen in a long time.

Have we just witnessed the beginning of the end for the Obama campaign?

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