Mitt Shares His Truth

There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us. If so, they are at odds with the nation's founders, for they, when our nation faced its greatest peril, sought the blessings of the Creator. And further, they discovered the essential connection between the survival of a free land and the protection of religious freedom. In John Adams' words: 'We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people.' Mitt Romney Address: "Faith in America"


I think most of us are tired of the war on religion. The fact that Mitt Romney was called upon to explain his own religion should, and probably does, rankle a good number of us. Personally, I thought JFK put the matter to bed in 1960. Yet, here are Romney's detractors telling him he has to justify having a different religion. And this from the same people who want to diminish the meaning of religion.

So Mitt Romney, calling their bluff, gets out there and says something 90% of us believe: That there is a higher authority than government, and none of us have the right to usurp His role. The beauty of that is that now that Romney has said this, everybody else either has to say "me, too" or attempt to refute it. I'd like to see somebody try the latter.

George W. Bush was a man of faith, too. He was no theologian, but he, too, understood the difference between providence and Providence. Turns out that his simple, resolute faith was a significant difference maker in the election. If the areligious minority out there wants to paint Mitt Romney with that color of GWB, I think they have made a big tactical error. Going a little further; this event could very well cause religion to be the defining issue for the election. In that case, I'm betting on God.

Edwards signs in.

Edwards plan would empower the federal government to garnish an individual's wages for purposes of collecting "back premiums with interest and collection costs." --ABC News: Political Radar

For a while there, I was afraid we were never going to see the color of Edwards' stripe. He's probably no different from the average Dem candidate in this respect; however by actually coming out and saying he wants another piece of our paychecks, well, it is remarkable for that alone.

It has been about controlling our lives for so long, they are no longer sensitive or shy about exposing their ultimate and final target... Your wallet!