John McCain Watch: McCain Wants to Patch Things Up with Focus on the Family’s James Dobson

Readers: Please Vote in Flapâ€™s January 2008 GOP Presidential Poll

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks to journalists outside the CBS studio in Washington after being interviewed on ‘Face the Nation’ Sunday, Washington Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007.

AP: McCain to make amends with Dobson

Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn’t support the Republican’s presidential bid under any circumstances.

In a radio interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian station, Dobson argued that McCain didn’t support traditional marriage values and complained that the campaign finance legislation he co-authored hurt Christian broadcasters.

“Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances,” Dobson said on KCBI.

The 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation stifled “Christian radio” and “kept us from telling the truth right before elections,” Dobson contended. “He is not in favor of traditional marriage and I pray that we will not get stuck with him.”

James Dobson of Focus on the Family on John McCain: â€œI pray that we donâ€™t get stuck with himâ€

Flap supposes McCain calling Jerry Falwell and other Evangelical Christians AGENTS OF INTOLERANCE during his 2000 campaign against President Bush may have had somethng to do with the snub.

You think?