The AP reports that Dr. James Dobson, anti-gay crusader and leader of “Focus on the Family,” may just be changing his tune on John McCain.

“Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his position and endorse the Arizona senator despite serious misgivings. ‘I never thought I would hear myself saying this,’ Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. ‘… While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might.’”

As we’ve been saying here at Log Cabin ever since Sen. McCain won the GOP nomination, there is clearly no where else for so-called “social conservative” (read: “anti-gay”) leaders to go.  With Democratic gains predicted in the U.S. House and Senate, Sen. John McCain is the only thing stopping the Democrats from taking our country dramatically to the left. 

We’ve long said that, despite Dobson’s earlier stubborn statements that he wouldn’t vote for McCain, leaders like him have nowhere else to go. 

So, of course, the media will make this into a news story.  But it’s hardly news. 

-posted by Scott Tucker