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dobsonmccain.jpgThis week the National Religious Broadcasters Convention takes center stage in Nashville, TN. President Bush and James Dobson will headline the event, but perhaps the person who will be talked about the most is John McCain. As Bob Smietana of the Tennessean points out, Dobson and many evangelicals have yet to embrace McCain since he became the presumptive Republican nominee. Robin Smith, head of the Republican party of Tennessee, concedes the point about McCain, but also points out that evangelicals have a choice between “sitting on their hands on the sidelines” or “standing up for Christian principles and being the salt of the earth.” Dobson has declined to expand on his previous comments about McCain’s alleged lack of conservatism.

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