Thanks for the memory.

If that predates y’all, you really missed the best of him.

That’s where the money is, anyway– move over, L. Ron Hubbard.;-)

With Huckabee wearing his religion on his sleeve, the Republicans have cornered the market on pandering to the religious right.

Should either one of them win next year, where do the rest of us go?

There are those among us who espouse no religious convictions whatsoever. Where do they stand with respect to Romney “serving only the common cause of the people of the United States?”

He said, “Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom…Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.”

This is utter nonsense, and I consider people who hold these views dangerous to our freedom.

I couldn’t agree with you more about the irrelevancy of religion in a presidential campaign. Unfortunately, for many Americans, religion is not only relevant, it’s the single most important issue (especially for many in the way too influential state of Iowa).

It was only twenty years ago (a time when religion was much less pervasive in the public square) when Pat Robertson, who said after 9/11 that liberal judges are a bigger threat to this country than Al Qaeda, placed second in the caucuses. So, it isn’t entirely inconceivable that Mike Huckabee could win this thing based entirely on his history as an evangelical preacher. If Huckabee’s candidacy hadn’t gained so much steam in recent days, Romney doesn’t make this speech.

They liked what he had to say, mostly, but they were unhappy that he had been so “anti-religious” when he said, “It is time to give these entrenched interests… hell.”

And this in the state whose students historically have performed best nationwide on their College Boards.

Unfortunately, however, Romney is responding to the large number of narrow-minded voters who put this issue above all others and use it as a test of whom they will vote for.

Disgraceful — and one reason why we often get the kind of presidents we do.