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Senate staffer; this is a man who can
unleash a flood of angry calls, letters
and faxes by simply issuing instruc-
tions on one of his daily programs,
heard on more than 2,000 radio sta-
tions.
In recent months, Dr. Dobson
has attacked what he sees as a "col-
lapse" of leadership in the
Republican Party. What he means by
that is that the party, worrying
about its own future, has shown
signs of shifting away from a narrow
Christian social agenda that poll
after poll indicates is not supported
by a majority of voters.
Other Christian right leaders echo
his criticisms.
The Christian Coalition is think-
ing about endorsing a presidential
candidate early in the primary
process to counter the tendency of
the party to swing back to the middle
after a few primaries.

Christian right
leaders say that
if the party
doesn't bend to
their demands,
they may bolt
the GOP
entirely.

The group is leaning toward Sen.
John Ashcroft, R-Mo., one of the
most conservative members of the
Senate, and publisher Malcolm
"Steve" Forbes, who has spent-most of
the time since his unsuccessful 1996
White House bid retooling himself as
an aggressive social conservative.
Former vice president and champion
speller Dan Quayle also is playing
aggressively to the televangelist crowd.
Gary Bauer, director of the
Washington-based Family Research
Council, an offshoot of Dr. Dobson's
ministries, is an all-but-announced
candidate for the GOP nomination,
and party officials take the hard-
edged conservative seriously, despite
his lack of electoral experience and
his notable lack of charisma.

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