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11.5.07 @ 12:01AM

UNFOUNDED
Re: Paul Chesser's Prejudiced for Eternity and Reader Mail's Mormons in America:

I find these ongoing discussions about Governor Romney's faith wearisome, and James Walker's fear that a Mormon as president would cause a rush of worldwide conversions to that faith both unfounded and paranoid. Some Evangelicals hold certain beliefs with which I as a Roman Catholic disagree. It doesn't mean that I won't vote for the best conservative candidate for president, whether he be Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist, Mormon or Jewish. We need a president who will stand up for America in the international arena and uphold the traditions (or the American Creed, as Huntington puts it) that have made her great. I hardly see how, with the safeguards put in place by our Constitution, fortified by numerous court decisions, that having a Mormon, Catholic, Evangelical or Jew, as president poses any threat to the Republic. They all must take an oath to uphold the Constitution.

In twenty-two years in the Air Force I had the good fortune to serve and fly with Mormons, and I found them to be among the most honest, and honorable, of comrades-in-arms (notwithstanding Harry Reid's cheap shots and clownish political theatrics). These ongoing assaults on Mr. Romney's faith, and he is a man of faith, reek of bigotry, and only serve to undermine the right's efforts to oppose the real danger posed by the left's rabid secularization and its hatred of America and all things religious. If some Evangelicals are so blinded by self-regard as to not see this and abandon the Republican nominee, whoever he might be, then they can damn well take the blame for the increase in attacks on Christianity and the acceleration of the moral, ethical and cultural decay in this country that will most assuredly occur under a Clinton, Edwards or Obama presidency.
-- Paul DeSisto
Cedar Grove, New Jersey

BROKEN RECORDS
Re: The Prowler's Record Removal:

Here come the hits on Governor Huckabee. He is rising in the polls and the long knives are out.

I am sorry, but I just don't place a lot of credence when the article doesn't name "the critics." Come back when you can name names, dates, places and events. You know, the who, what, when, where and how of real journalism. What does Brenda Turner, the only proper name in the article, say? Nothing quoted in the article!

Who is this Current Employee? I don't think Current Employee passes as a proper appellation.

Goodness, I want better reporting from the Spectator when you do hit pieces on Republican candidates. If this rumor is true, fine. We will deal with it. But let's leave unnamed sources in your "real reporter's notepad" until you have facts, not innuendo, to report.
-- Judy Beumler
Phoenix, Arizona
P.S. Strong words to follow!

RUDY FOR BATTLE
Re: Philip Klein's Hating Rudy:

For the same reasons that liberals hate Giuliani, I -- we -- love him. We know that, unlike George Bush who passively took it on the chin from the media and the left -- Rudy Giuliani will pummel them until all of our enemies -- foreign, and, most significantly, domestic -- are drawn to a bloody pulp.

This is the man we need, a man for this moment in time. Everything about Rudy Giuliani tells me that he will fight for our country, fight for our liberties, and that he will defeat our Islamo-fascist enemies against whom they won't have a Chinaman's chance. The Jane Fondas ought to be folding their tents and quietly slipping off into the night. Why? Because he will clean them out: they are first on the list to be tried for treason, convicted, and hanged.

Rudy has a rendezvous with destiny, with history, and with the American people. He will be a great president in perilous times. God bless Rudy Giuliani.
-- J.H. Cohen, J.D., Ph.D.
New York, New York

Yes, Rudy is headed for the nomination. Some of us remember when the fringe left and the mainstream press told us how threatening it would be to vote Reagan into the White House -- it would be World War III with the Soviet Union, Bush could not be trusted with his finger on the trigger, and now Rudy is the greatest threat to humanity (except global warming...). Yes, Rudy is headed for the White House.
-- Chuck Els

I read Philip Klein's (disturbing) piece today and wonder how the such children (Dem media gaggle) came to be so elevated. Then I remember: 1.) While at college 30+ years ago I noticed that the least intellectually curious people seemed to be going to the Schools of Education and Communication; and 2.) Dem Media is hemorrhaging money and viewers...the market works, even when gamed.
-- Reid Bogie
Waterbury, Connecticut

Wasn't the rationale for "Rudy Giuliani for President" that he could win over social liberals and moderates who otherwise would never vote for a GOP candidate? As Philip Klein indicates in his well-documented article, that is not proving to be the case.

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