James Dobson clarifies his election-season strategy

How to be functionally partisan in an election while retaining the lovely sheen of a principled, nonpartisan interest group:

Step 1: Attack the GOP nominee, because we don't like him.

Step 2: Attack the Dem nominee harder, at greater length, and far less fairly--in order to render [Step 1] irrelevant in the more or less zero-sum game of general-election politics.

Here's Dobson on his radio show today. I particularly like his claim that he never heard of Obama's 2006 Sojourners speech--which included a brief mention of Dobson--until this week. How convenient for him! Good thing he doesn't have a large, sophisticated staff operation working on things like compiling press clips, or he might have accidentally run this show long ago, at a less strategically significant time.

I'd spell out his intellectually dishonest, strawman-filled attack on Obama's view of the role of religion in the public square, but Mark Silk's excellent blog saved me the time.

See also Dave, whom I've been debating in the comments.