Romney Supporters Paid to be Romney Supporters

Do you think that Mitt Romney is too cynical, has no core principles, and is yet another in a long line of Establishment-supported Republicans more interested in securing power than the best interests of our country?  Guess what ... even his campaign workers agree with you.

Whatever one may think of the Santorum campaign, his grassroots supporters are not paid and believe in their hearts that he is the one consistent, principled conservative in the race.

It's no surprise that the Romney campaign fails to inspire grassroots support for his campaign, but do we really want another cynical manipulator of public opinion in the White House?

Here's what a Romney campaign worker thinks about "his candidate."

Gingrich and Reagan

In the 1980s, the candidate repeatedly insulted the president.

Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich in the Oval Office

By Elliot Abrams

In the increasingly rough Republican campaign, no candidate has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan more often than Newt Gingrich. “I worked with President Reagan to change things in Washington,” “we helped defeat the Soviet empire,” and “I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress” are typical claims by the former speaker of the House.

The claims are misleading at best. As a new member of Congress in the Reagan years — and I was an assistant secretary of state — Mr. Gingrich voted with the president regularly, but equally often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides, and his policies to defeat Communism. Gingrich was voluble and certain in predicting that Reagan’s policies would fail, and in all of this he was dead wrong.

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New Questions, Challenges Confront Episcopal-Turned-Catholic Leader

Fr. Jeffrey N. Steenson

By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Catholic News Service
 
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Father Jeffrey N. Steenson is finding that there are a lot of new roads to travel and new questions to resolve since his Jan. 1 appointment as head of the Houston-based Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter for former Anglicans who want to become Catholics.

The former Episcopal bishop of the Rio Grande, who was ordained a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., in February 2009, was to be installed in his new post Feb. 12. Also in February, a class of about 40 former Episcopal priests will begin an intensive, Internet-based course of studies to become Catholic priests within the ordinariate.

Happy Australia Day to Our Friends in OZ

G'day and warmest good wishes to our Australian friends and visitors.

The Australian National Anthem

Slim Dusty Sings "Waltzing Matilda

Robert Burns Day - "The Peoples Poet" - BBC Documentary

Writer Andrew O'Hagan asks what made Robert Burns one of the world's favorite poets. He travels through the landscape of modern Scotland in a poetic journey to the places that inspired Burns and to discover the story of his wild and dramatic life.

Republican Address to the Nation: Governor Mitch Daniels

We heartily agree with many national commentators who have said that Governor Mitch Daniels' response to the State of the Union Address was the finest opposition party response ever delivered.  It is a clear analysis of America's true condition and the failed "extremism" of Barack Hussein Obama.  It is also presents a clear, conservative vision as to how America can be restored to her Constitutional foundation, and American ideals of liberty and justice for all.

Pennsylvania Bishop Slams Public Schools, Says Hitler and Mussolini Would ‘Love Our System’

From LifeSiteNews.com

By Christine Dhanagom

In the midst of a raging battle in Pennsylvania over school vouchers, Harrisburg Bishop Joseph McFadden had some tough words about the nation’s public school system.

“In totalitarian governments, they would love our system,” he told an ABC affiliate. “This is what Hitler and Mussolini and all those tried to establish - a monolith so all the children would be educated in one set of beliefs and one way of doing things.”