AMERICA’S ONLY HOPE

U.S.Republican presidential nominee Rick Santorum is surging in the polls because he is, in the extreme, morally consistent and politically courageous — just what America needs. The foundation of America’s problems is not the economy, immigration, or its foreign policies but morality. When morality disappears, when men begin treating each other as mere commodities, then everything else falters.

Decades of godless Supreme Court decisions have created an anti-family culture of death in the U.S. that now sanctions and promotes everything from contraception to abortion, homosexual activity, sex outside of marriage, pornography, easy divorce, embryonic stem cell research, sterilization and in-vitro fertilization. President Obama, more than any other president, has not only continued this tradition of moral bankruptcy which in turn has devalued the economic currency of the nation, but he has worked endlessly to spread it abroad to other countries — all at the taxpayers expense. He has gone so far as to discourage and eliminate — especially though his health care reform — religion and moral convictions from the public square.

The only candidate seriously capable of altering this sad state of affairs and re-establishing America as a nation in touch with its democratic roots and moral foundation is Rick Santorum.

Paul Kokoski

Hamilton

(America’s future is not in the hands of one person — that’s the whole point of democracy)

NO HOPE

John Robson’s excellent article on Congressman Ron Paul shows how frustrated and dissatisfied Republicans have become with the current slate of candidates. Let’s face facts, Paul does not have a hope of securing the party’s nomination, however it is widely speculated that this political misfit will be a third party candidate for president in 2012, if this comes to fruition “The Annointed One” will be assured of a second term at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Stephen T. Flanagan

(We doubt Paul will be a factor six months from now)

POPULARITY CONTEST

RE “A Star is born,” by Don Brennan (Jan. 2): Karlsson’s great play and talent aside (easily one of the premier defencemen in the NHL now), the all-star “selection” process is a bigger joke than the game itself.

The fact Dion Phaneuf and James Reimer are both receiving massive votes underscores the fact that the selection is based upon nothing more than a popularity contest and how many votes 12-year-old Jimmy can rack up on his PC! Ask Burke if he’d deal Phaneuf even up for any of Zdeno Chara, Ryan Suter, Shea Weber and, yes, Karlsson, right now and the deal would be made before you could blink. And Reimer ahead of Thomas at any stage in “voting” is ludicrous, never mind ahead of Henrik Lundqvist. If political votes were held that way, the NDP would have formed a national government long ago.

Go back to the days when the players and coaches picked the teams, with the only condition being they couldn’t vote for anyone on their own team. Now those were representative teams.

George O’Leary

From ottawasun.com

(You’re going to get some wonky results, but we like the fan participation)