COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said Friday that GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s victory in the Iowa caucuses shows that Christian conservatives still have considerable influence.
Huckabee easily defeated second-place finisher Mitt Romney in Iowa Thursday thanks to a wave of support from evangelical Christians.
“The results of the Iowa caucuses reveal that conservative Christians remain a powerful force in American politics. That had to be a great shock to those on the far left,” Dobson said in a written release.
Dobson criticized what he called media elites, saying they had written off religious conservatives.
Huckabee’s victory “was evidence of an energized and highly motivated conservative community,” Dobson said. “Not bad for a supposed bunch of demoralized, depressed, disillusioned and disengaged Reaganites.”
Dobson said he has not endorsed Huckabee and said the former Arkansas governor may not win the GOP nomination.
In the next test, the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, Christian conservatives are expected to be less of a force than they were in Iowa.
