Hint? I think it’s more than a hint.  Another take on the South Carolina visit.  Hear the audio.

Straw polls and rankings.

Religion and government.  One is forced to wonder what role interreligious intolerance played in the building the wall?  Lowell:  A pretty big one, I think.  The biggest role of all, of course, has been that of the secular left.

So much for the corruption issue.

From other branches of the Republican party… 

Is Michigan the new Iowa?

Romney has recently taken a hard line on immigration.  Mormon stronghold Utah may tell the wisdom of that stance.  Lowell:  The outcome of the Cannon-Jacob race will be interesting, but needs to be seen in perspective.  National conservative views usually find stronger expression in Utah than elsewhere.  In other words, if 48% of national conservatives want a fence on the border, 58% of Utah conservatives want one. 

Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network profiles Romney.  It’s an amazingly positive piece from a fire-breather like Robertson.  Frankly, Robertson is one of the places I expected Romney to get great resistance.  Lowell:  I also am surprised.  Maybe it all comes down to this idea:

“I think Americans want people of faith to lead their country,” [Romney] said. “Generally they don’t care so much about the particular brand of faith, if the people that they’re looking at have the same values they have. And people of my faith have the values of other great religions that are represented here in this country.”

I suspect that people like Robertson, Charles Colson, and other conservative evangelicals share this view.  It remains to be seen whether rank and file evangelicals do also.  My hunch is that the overwhelming majority do– I have no doubt that they are people of good will who want the best for the country.
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