James Dobson backs Miers, Rove involved

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Make Dobson reveal sources on Miers

October 11, 2005

James Dobson for star witness.

There's no one better to clear up the confusion that's dogging the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination than the evangelical Christian talker, author and political powerhouse who founded the conservative group Focus on the Family - and who claims to have inside information that gives him confidence Miers would rule the way the Christian right wants her to.

"I can't reveal it all," Dobson said on his radio show last week. "Because I do know things I'm privy to that I can't describe." He bases his support for Miers on what he says were "confidential conversations and contacts." At least some of these tete-a-tetes, Dobson confirms, were with White House political mastermind Karl Rove.

The Senate Judiciary Committee cannot subpoena God, the other entity with whom Dobson claims to be chatting about Miers. But it can do the next best thing. It can get sworn testimony from one of the few people in the country other than, perhaps, George W. Bush, who is reasonably sure Miers will vote against abortion rights and complete other tasks on the social conservatives' judicial to-do list.

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