DALLAS - John McCain still has an “evangelical problem.”
High-profile evangelical conservative James Dobson, who has already said he would not vote for McCain in November, said on Wednesday he saw no evidence the Arizona senator was wooing conservatives.
”I have seen no evidence that Sen. McCain is successfully unifying the Republican Party or drawing conservatives to his fold. To the contrary, he seems intent on driving them away,” Dobson, founder and chairman of the influential conservative advocacy group Focus on the Family, said in a statement published in The Wall Street Journal.
Dobson went on to reiterate the problems that he and many other religious conservatives have with McCain, including his failure to support a federal constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
He also took issue with McCain’s speech in March to the World Affairs Council on Foreign Policy, in which he laid out his support for government action on climate change and criticized the U.S. military for its use of torture.
This highlights McCain’s continuing problem with white conservative evangelicals — a group that analysts say he must woo as they have become the most reliable bloc of Republican voters.
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