Meh. So what?  Who didn’t see this coming after Dobson said Thompson “isn’t a Christian” back in March?

But really, what does it matter in the next election?  For the primaries, who are the evangelicals going to throw their weight behind?  McCain is a punch line, and Romney can’t even beat Hillary in Alabama.  Huckabee and Brownback, aren’t even showing up in the polls right now, so that leaves...Giuliani?  The evangelicals are going to line up behind his serial divorces, pro-choice attitude and his wobbly anti-illegal immigration stance?

Please.

And if Thompson gets the endorsement, what do the evangelicals do in the election?  Vote for Hillary?  Not bloody likely.  Stay home?  Maybe that could hurt, but remember that if Hillary’s on the other tickets Republicans are going to be lining up in droves just to vote against her.  And if Thompson isn’t busy pandering to the evangelicals he’ll likely prove more palatable to the fiscal conservatives who are often turned off by the GOP candidates’ dogmatic social agenda.

I’m not saying this announcement from Dobson is good for Thompson, politically, but it’s not a death knell either.  And as a fiscal conservative who has grown a little weary of elections being more about things like gay marriage and Christian issues than the war on terror and fiscal policy, it’d be nice to see a candidate who’s a bit more independent of the Dobsons of the world.