Reagan's attitude toward marriage seems to be shared by both candidates for president this year, one thing we can be grateful for.

Troy, I for one appreciate your reassessment of Mitt Romney.  There is something unseemly about a person tooting their own horn regarding acts of personal charity so I hope we don't see Romney changing in that regard.  However, having friends and acquaintances praise you is altogether appropriate and also more effective.

You knew the left was reaching with that WaPo story.  They won't be able to maintain the narrative because Romney is basically very nice guy.

Good addition.

Muckraker is a label I would be happy to be worthy of.  Certainly better than some others I've received.

I guess she's never heard of Guantánamo Bay.

I'm sure these have been mentioned, but a couple of my favorites are :Once upon a time in the west (if only for the music) and The Professionals (with Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster).  Another couple of favorites are The Bravodos (with Gregory Peck) and Chato's Land (even a man can admire Charles Bronson's chiseled physique).

Thank Heaven my mother didn't get free contraceptives!

Very effective.  I hope Romney reads your suggestion.

I think there are Republicans that worry about the left succeeding in pushing class resentment.  There are probably those who have a hard time repressing that instinct themselves.  I can't remember who but someone was quoted as saying "nothing is so difficult as to celebrate the success of a friend."  People are naturally envious and have to fight the impulse.  It's always seemed to me that Romney is judged by a different standard than his opponents.  I thought maybe I was simply not being objective about it but Jennifer Rubin expresses the same thought often.  Sad to say but I think that since Romney doesn't have any obvious vices there is a tendency to seek out and exaggerate whatever flaws he does exhibit.

Thanks for the link.  It's even more impressive hearing him deliver the speech than reading it because, perhaps for the first time, he does it with conviction and polish and without the frenzy that sometimes diminishes the impact of what he is trying to say.

Seems a few important questions were left out of this interview: 1) you trumpet how well you are doing being outspent so greatly, isn't financial support simply another form of voting and another measure of one's popularity? 2) you state that Romney is not conservative and has no conviction yet you endorsed him strongly in 2008 as having both, long after the details of Romneycare were known.  If he has moved anywhere since it has been to the right.  How do you square your 2008 acclaim with your 2012 scorn?

Paul, I've often had the same puzzling reflection.  For some reason I find myself rooting for him every time he plays despite his moral failings.  It's not just his marital infidelities that bug me but his swearing on the course, all the while knowing the camera must be catching it and his lack of camaraderie with his fellow player.  Perhaps the last is because of focusing but I suspect he's simply trying to intimidate his opponent.  Not unusual in sports but a bit unseemly in golf.  Despite all that I rarely watch golf unless he's in contention.  I guess I just want to see him do the impossible shot and break the unbreakable records.

I've been surprised Romney hadn't put this out earlier.  He should run it often.  It surely can't be called negative campaigning.  It makes Santorum's over the top remarks about Romney during this campaign look rather convenient.

This is a shocker and a great loss for conservatives.  Breitbart was absolutely fearless in staring into the jaws of the lion.  Deep sympathy for his family.

So is that the rule, if your parents are citizens it doesn't matter where you are physically born?  I know you are still a citizen but does that satisfy the requirement the constitution sets out for running for president?