Today’s Reading List – September 26, 2006

Posted by: John Schroeder at 05:08 am, September 26th 2006 — Comment on this post »

The Romney team grows. I continue to be impressed with how Romney does politics. The man is more organized than any I have ever seen at this early stage of the game.

Since we are a religion and politics blog we have gotten a bit of mail chastising us for not discussing Allen and the attacks made on him concerning his Jewish heritage. We did link to it at the time, but that story seems to be disappearing from the news as Allen's chances at the GOP nomination are fading. The big news with Allen at the moment seems to be the racism charge – Hotline – Dean Barnett at Hugh Hewitt and Powerline, who calls it "The Macaca Offensive." Given how this stuff keeps creeping up, there is little question in my mind that Allen is undergoing a serious and ugly offensive from some source, but he is so inept at handling it, that he is making himself a non-story. Lowell: Besides, Article 6 is about imposing a religous test for public office. Last time I checked, pundits are not raising the question of whether large blocs of voters will vote against Allen because of his Jewish heritage. Update: See post immediately above. It's gotten dirty in Virginia.

Joe Carter has some interesting thoughts on last weekends FRC confab. Best quote:

In a classical statement of ecumenicity, St. Augustine once said, "In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, love." Those of us on the religious right should adopt a similar principle and clearly define the boundaries between what is essential and what is non-essential in matters of policy and politics.

An interesting look at George Romney's tenure at HUD and lessons for his son therefrom.