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James Dobson

A one-man media conglomerate, Jim oversees the production of magazines, books, seminars, conferences, videos and audiotapes. He also does 90-second radio and TV commentaries, which reach 11 million every week, and his daily half-hour radio show airs on 2,500 Christian stations.

Based in Colorado Springs, Jim founded both Focus on the Family, a multimedia ministry, and the D.C.-based Family Research Council, the pro-family lobby once headed by presidential candidate Gary Bauer.

Make no mistake about it: Jim has a lot of clout in the conservative movement, and has threatened to use it if provoked.

He doesn't care much for gays and pro-choice advocates, and he has scolded the Republican Party for toning down its rhetoric. He told them that if they keep it up with all that talk about tolerance and inclusiveness, he'll bolt and start up a new anti-abortion third party.

Although not a household name, Jim Dobson has been around awhile. In the early 1970s, he became known as a Christian alternative to Dr. Benjamin Spock, the baby doctor. Jim's a psychologist, and in his child-rearing book, Dare to Discipline, he recommended corporal punishment for kids even as young as 15 months.

And he wouldn't mind giving the American public a hard spanking. During the 1999 Senate impeachment hearings, he wrote that "our greatest problem is not in the Oval Office. It is with the people of this land."

Jim prefers folks like Pat Miller of Colorado, a woman he endorsed in her failed run for Congress in 1996. Pat raised eyebrows when she said she'd be an advocate for militia groups. Oh, yeah, Jim. Them's real nice folks.

During the Reagan years, Jim served under Attorney General Ed Meese on his Commission on Pornography. The panel came to the conclusion that sexually violent pornography actually caused sexual violence.

Jim became so convinced of this that he visited serial killer Ted Bundy in his Florida prison cell, just hours before Ted got zapped in the electric chair. Jim got Ted to say in a taped interview that pornography helped inspire him to kill women.

I knew there had to be an explanation. And if Ted says it's so, that's good enough for me. After all, when it comes to killing women, Ted was the best.