Surprise, surprise, yours truly is in total concurrence with the conservative talk show heavyweights Rush, Laura, Hannity, Medved and Hewitt, that Romney hit the ball out of the park with his speech entitled “Faith In America”.  The fact that he made this [hopefully] historic speech was made at the Bush-41 library on the Texas A&M campus, just a couple hours – of that -- from Houston, site of JFK’s corresponding speech in 1960, was a nice touch indeed!

Here’s the thrust of the message of the speech, for those of you who missed it:
    “We should acknowledge the Creator as did the Founders- in ceremony and word,” he said. “He should remain on our currency, in our pledge, in the teaching of our history, and during the holiday season, nativity scenes and menorahs should be welcome in our public places…I will take care to separate the affairs of government from any religion, but I will not separate us from ‘the God who gave us liberty.’ Nor would I separate us from our religious heritage. Perhaps the most important question to ask a person of faith who seeks a political office, is this: does he share these American values: the equality of human kind, the obligation to serve one another, and a steadfast commitment to liberty. They are not unique to any one denomination. They belong to the great moral inheritance we hold in common. They are the firm ground on which Americans of different faiths meet and stand as a nation, united.”  
    We are now in the early days of the 21^st Century, a time where we must be diligent and vigilant in vanquishing Islamofascism for our very survival as a society/civilization.  This murderous ideology and theology – that of Islamism -- is one that has been virtually unchanged since the 7^th Century.  The last thing we as Americans need is to weaken ourselves by re-fighting some variation of the European Protestant Wars of the 16^th Century. 

    The genius of the marriage in American society and politics is that while we’re politically secular, we’re socially/culturally Judeo-Christian.  Overall, the quibbling over theological details from sect to sect is a relatively small matter; what matters is that we share the major values that make up the big tent of Judeo-Christianity.  That’s the basic message, in one form or another, that both Michael Medved and Jonah Goldberg offer in their editorial pieces regarding this crucial speech.  Could it have raised Romney’s stock in the process?  Possibly; as Medved points out, “he not only looked and sounded like a President – he actually looked and sounded like a great one”.  Still skeptical on whether or not this was a great speech with a meritorious message?  Hugh Hewitt provides us with the perfect litmus test:  “When was the last time that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, Fred Barnes, Charles Krauthammer and me all focused on the same subject and all agreed on the merits?”