Stunning

Republicans For Obama

The Republican contenders have even GOP governors praising Obama. Santorum in particular is driving republicans in droves over to the democratic camp on issues like education, as Santorum goes on a wierd rant against college trying to appeal to people who may feel put down by the fact they didn't get there. More people, I venture, wish their kids better than they had so are champions of higher education and just wish school loans were not so crippling. The country should be concerned with its global competitiveness which is enhanced when more of us are better educated. No one is interested in the dumbing down of America.

The church state "throw up" comments regarding JFK are just silly. Does he realize what kind of anti-catholicism existed during that era which made it impossible for him to be elected as a catholic unless he made a firm stance like this as people feared that the Pope of the day may
dictate policy to the Protestant country? The fact that he is running as a catholic owes a debt to JFK and to his church-state stance. He looks like an ingrate. The rant against the 'secular left' equally misplaced when Gingrich goes off on it. The safe religiously neutral space in public life does not shut out religious voices in the public square, it is a question of who gets to dictate policy. The Catholic church can be and has been as brutally arbitrary in exercise of power historically and in the service of power for the sake of power, and the Protestants who formed the country largely didn't want a repeat of the inquisition experience. Canon law has within it things like excommunications -and we don't take citizenship away from people for using contraceptives.

Church-State doctrine is something that judges and scholars and lawyers have debated and fine tuned for generations in this country- so for someone who is a lawyer to on a political rant
say something as mindless as JFKs speech and church-state separation stance makes him "throw up" is, as the Washington Post will say in today's paper, a disqualifier. Just dumb.

Romney is smarter than Santorum who keeps having to retract his foot in mouth proclamations. Romney's character however is more suspect than you want in a President. He just keeps saying things that are flatly not true. The latest is that 'Santorum never held a job in the private sector.' Yes, he did- what do you think a law firm is? Santorum worked for two.
As between the say anything even if you lie and know better guy, and the dumb or naiive guy who firmly loudly proclaims the unacceptable, Gingrich actually starts looking like a better deal.
And so you know you are in trouble.

If there were a brokered convention and anyone else wanted to get into the food fight- I would wonder where Libby Dole went.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/enough-of-rick-santorums-sermons/2012/02/27/gIQAvUKieR_story.html?hpid=z6

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-santorum-shows-hes-the-wrong-man-to-be-president/2012/02/27/gIQAFwZHeR_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/28/jon-stewart-mocks-santorum-for-misinterpreting-j-f-k-speech/