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This morning, James Dobson (of whom I am no fan) has an editorial in the NY Times explaining how social conservative activists have adopted a resolution stating that if the Democrats and Republicans nominate presidential candidates who are not sufficiently pro-life, they will vote for a "minor-party candidate."

The resolution was passed unanimously.

They also debated the creation of a third party, should the GOP nominate someone who isn't sufficiently "pro-family" (I put that term in quotation marks because I honestly don't accept the logic that being pro-choice makes someone "anti-family"... but whatever).

I have little to say about this, except three things:

1) Socons like Dobson and his supporters relentlessly, and in just about every election, threaten to boycott the GOP if they don't get exactly what they want, with every box relating to every minute detail of their agenda ticked by any Republican candidate whatsoever. Last year, before the hard-fought 2006 election, I heard plenty of griping from socon activists in DC that if the GOP didn't pass the Federal Marriage Amendment, they'd stay home. From the Tancredoites in the party, I similarly heard relentless threats issued that if Republicans like the President, John McCain, and even Mike Pence didn't abandon their interest in instituting a guest worker program, they would stay home and throw the election to the Democrats. Ahead of previous elections, I have heard similar threats issued over things like embryonic stem cell research, protection of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and so on. So, what Dobson is writing about here, and what he and his cohorts are threatening, is hardly news. Nor will be the fact that even if some of these guys do in fact stay home, or vote for a third party candidate (or, as I've heard some threaten to do, vote ...

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I'll be appearing on NPR's "On Point" again tomorrow, discussing presidential politics, SCHIP and a variety of other items. Check out where the show will be airing in your area, and tune in!

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