Sorry for the delay in posting folks - busy week! I would like to share a link to a great post over at Evangelicals For Mitt. They defended their support for Mitt and I really like their reasons!

Evangelicals For Mitt

From The Hotline:

March 23, 2007
Romney Wins A South Carolina Straw Poll

This proves he’s popular with the young ‘uns.

Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney won the SC Colleagiate Republican Organization’s straw poll yesterday.

Mitt Romney 53% Rudy Giuliani 19% John McCain 15%

Talking about his AMAZING accomplishments! Here are just a few - please copy and e-mail them to 10 friends. Some may not know these facts and surely will be impressed by MItt Romney!

* Balanced Budgets. Without raising taxes or increasing debt, Governor Romney closed a $3 billion budget deficit his first year in office with a heavily Democrat legislature. Each year, Governor Romney filed a balanced budget without raising taxes. By eliminating waste, streamlining government, and enacting comprehensive economic reforms to help spur growth, Governor Romney helped the state achieve a surplus totaling nearly $1 billion in 2005.

* Lower Taxes. In the bluest of blue states, Governor Romney kept taxes down. Under his leadership, the state abolished a retroactive capital gains tax that would have forced nearly 50,000 taxpayers to pay additional taxes and fees.

* Unemployment Lowered. When Governor Romney took office, Massachusetts was losing thousands of jobs every month. Today, the unemployment rate is averaging more than a full percentage point lower, and the state has added approximately 60,000 jobs in the last two years.

* A Commitment To Traditional Marriage And Family. Governor Romney believes marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman.  He has fought activist judges who imposed same-sex marriage on Massachusetts and testified before Congress in support of the Federal Marriage Act.  When Governor Romney has addressed life issues he has sided on life.  These have been his positions in Massachusetts and will be his positions as President.

* Strengthened Education. Under Governor Romney’s leadership, Massachusetts’ fourth and eighth grade students ranked first in reading and tied for first in mathematics. In 2004, Governor Romney helped ensure more students received a higher education by establishing the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program to reward the highest performing Massachusetts high school graduates with a four-year, tuition-free scholarship to state universities or colleges. In three years, more than 14,000 top-scoring high school seniors have been awarded these scholarships.

* More Affordable Healthcare. Bringing the best minds together, including experts at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to address healthcare costs, Governor Romney signed into law a plan affording every citizen health insurance without raising taxes or creating a massive government-controlled system.

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Hugh Hewitt is a radio host, blogger and Republican strategist and here is what you will learn about in his new book A Mormon in The White House? 10 Things Every Conservative Should Know About Mitt Romney :

Hewitt on Romney:

* What Romney identified as the biggest failure of the Clinton Administration, which has had the most lasting detrimental impact on America

* McCain, Giuliani, Jeb Bush: their key weaknesses that make each unelectable - and that Mitt Romney doesn’t share

* Romney’s rival McCain: how he squandered a once-in-a-generation chance to repair America’s badly broken judicial confirmation process

* Why judicial selection is the Achilles heel of Romney rival Rudolph Giuliani

* Why the 2008 presidential campaign is in many respects unprecedented - and why not even Hillary has a free ride through the primaries

* Romney’s father: governor, presidential candidate, patriot, family man — plus the inside story of how his presidential candidacy was sabotaged by the liberal media

* Romney’s Salt Lake City Olympic Games: how he succeeded in presenting them under the very real fear of another terrorist attack, and with unprecedented security (plus, the significance of Romney’s Olympic stewardship for Romney’s presidential bid)

* How Romney battled against his state’s highest court and its overwhelmingly Democratic legislature to return marriage to its traditional definition - and other key reasons why a Romney candidacy will appeal to pro-marriage activists

* Why a marriage amendment is a vital and necessary aspect of our constitutional democracy, not an aberration

* Romney’s experience as a husband, father, father-in-law and grandfather - and why they will be appealing to large segments of the American electorate

* Mitt Romney: smart enough, and wealthy enough, to beat Hillary and her deep-pocketed friends on the far left, beginning with George Soros

* Cloning, embryonic stem-cell research, and euthanasia: how these issues have gained center stage in American politics, and could be decisive in 2008 in a way that will work to Romney’s advantage

* Why in 2008 many in the pro-life movement will look for candidates willing to advocate ways to protect unborn life, even in its earliest form - and why Romney’s record in Massachusetts will appeal to such activists

* Romney’s views on the stem cell debate: at odds with the President Bush’s more restrictive position, but still significantly more protective of the dignity of the unborn embryonic life than all of the Democrats’ positions — and most of the Republicans’

* Romney’s wife Ann: the strengths she would bring to a Romney presidential candidacy

* How Romney has made clear that he is serious about the war against Islamist fascism, and unafraid to declare as much

* Identifying and motivating the “political base” for a particular candidate: it’s a specialized talent, and Romney has brought on board the best in the business presently available to do just that

* The concerted effort today to discredit tens of millions of Americans because of their views on the protection of the unborn, the central role of marriage between a man and a woman in the preservation of the family and the evil of human cloning - and how this effort has already backfired when the Left tried to discredit Mitt Romney

* The revolutionary theme that will no doubt be a key part of Romney’s presidential campaign

* Boston’s disaster-prone Big Dig: how Romney’s response to a tragedy and a public safety crisis illustrates how he can be expected to act as president when the inevitable crisis arises: to demand authority and to act, but only with the advice of the best experts available on the issue at hand

* Eight areas of Romney’s tenure as governor of Massachusetts that are relevant when considering a President Romney - including gay marriage and stem cell issues, judicial selection, budgeting, and taxes

* Romney’s major dilemma as a Mormon candidate - and how the mainstream media could unwittingly help Christian conservatives overcome their reservations about voting for a Mormon

Former Lt Governor of Florida, Toni Jennings offers this commentary:
Published: Mar 10, 2007

Last week, Mitt Romney traveled to Washington and dominated a conference of more than 5,000 conservative political leaders. It is no surprise that Gov. Romney had such success. He represents the best virtues of conservative thinking and leadership: He embraces innovation, optimism, transformation, and strength. I am proud to be the honorary chairwoman of his efforts in Florida as he campaigns for our nation’s highest office.

Romney’s remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference articulated exactly why he is the best fit to serve as our next president. He outlined, point-by-point, the steps we need to take in Washington to confront the challenges of our time. While others simply give lip-service to the kind of problems America faces, such as the threat of terror, federal overspending and Washington inaction, Romney spelled out solutions - solutions that will work.

In business, Romney founded one of our nation’s most successful venture capital firms and helped launch many successful companies. As a businesswoman myself, I know that running a successful business is hard work: You have to make payroll, you have to keep new business coming in the door, and you have to pay taxes. Romney understands that higher taxes hurt the people who create jobs in this country - and has pledged to maintain the low taxes that have been at the center of our economic expansion.

Romney is a strong leader. At the Olympics in 2002, he turned around an organization mired in scandal and facing financial crisis, and the games were a dramatic success.

As chief executive of Massachusetts, he brought fiscal discipline back to the Statehouse while providing a responsible plan for every citizen to have health insurance.

In foreign policy, Romney believes that the best ally of peace in the world is a strong America. He supports the mission in Iraq and honors the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform.

While we work to secure lasting stability in Iraq, Romney has laid out a comprehensive strategy to meet the threat posed by Iran. He is not waiting to be elected but already taking action, campaigning for American pension funds to divest from the irrational regime in Tehran.

On domestic policy, Romney is a fresh thinker and someone who enjoys looking at old problems with new approaches. When thrust into center stage in our nation’s culture wars, Romney did not just talk about traditional values - he took action to defend them.

I have been very fortunate to get to know Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, on a personal level. Mitt and Ann live their private lives in exactly the same way they live their public lives - with compassion, honesty, faithfulness, and an optimistic and hopeful belief in the strength of the American people.

I look forward to telling Floridians about Romney, and why they should believe in him - because I know that Mitt Romney is the strong conservative leader right for the job.

Toni Jennings is the former lieutenant governor of Florida.

From Governor Romney’s campaign:

The Federal government must stop its borrowing and spending binge. The debt is a burden on our economy, our currency, our foreign policy, and our future. This is beyond pork barrel spending. We must address entitlement programs - not just to save money - but to give Americans confidence in their future.

Governor Romney: “Every legislator and politician knows this spending can’t be justified, so why do they do it ? Because it gets politicians praised — and re-elected. There’s no courage involved in spending more money. Drawing a line on spending is hard and fraught with criticism. When I vetoed $458 million of excessive spending in the budget this spring, I knew that community newspapers across the Commonwealth would decry my elimination of local pet projects. And, I knew that the Legislature would over ride most of my vetoes. In fact, they over rode all of them, to a chorus of community acclaim. But someone has to say no.”
(Boston Globe, September 12, 2006)

Governor Romney: “I don’t want to add entitlements. I want to find ways to reform our entitlement programs.”
(Boston Globe, January 27, 2006)

I believe that Mitt Romney has been very forthcoming about his religion. When asked the basic questions, he answers them. Apparently some folks need more. Not sure what they need, but I’d like to get the religion issue out of the way. So ask away! I am glad to see the campaign embracing this opportunity.

Heather

To Romney strategist, questions on faith fair game
By Scott Helman, Globe Staff  |  March 6, 2007

CAMBRIDGE — It’s appropriate for the public to ask questions about Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith as he pursues his presidential campaign, a top Romney campaign strategist said yesterday.

Strategist Alex Castellanos was speaking at a forum of Republican presidential advisers held at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He was asked why the media seemed to be celebrating the fact that the country may elect its first African-American or woman president, but treating the specter of its first Mormon president with suspicion.

“I think there’s very little known about the governor’s faith,” Castellanos said at the forum, which also featured top advisers to Senator John McCain of Arizona and former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. “It’s just a question mark that folks are right to ask about.”

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