Increasingly, it seems likely that Mitt Romney will attain the Republican presidential nomination for 2012. He's a deeply flawed candidate. He has flip-flopped on issues more than any other candidate in modern times, and that's saying something. In the span of less than a decade, he has favored socialized medicine, a free market for medicine, Big Government, unhampered capitalism, abortion rights, gay marriage, anti gay-marriage amendments and anti-abortion laws. He favors high taxes, low taxes and the status quo, all at the same time. Reviewing his record makes one intellectually dizzy. But if Romney is deeply flawed, his opponents are profoundly flawed. Gingrich and Perry are opposing Romney based on arguments from the socialist left. Santorum is a religious fanatic who reportedly opposes the "pursuit of happiness." And Ron Paul, while refreshing as a fiscal hawk, is an even more extreme pacifist than Obama, who actually says the crazy fundamentalist mullahs in Iran should have a nuclear bomb.

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, referring to Barack Obama and his foreign/defense policy: "He's not only the most radical President in history domestically; he is the first President, Republican or Democrat, at least since Franklin Roosevelt, who didn't get up every morning thinking first about what threats the United States faces. He just doesn't care about national security the way other presidents did, " Bolton told an audience at a veterans rally in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

The American people, Bolton continued, are looking for a president "who doesn't believe that the role of America in the world is to be a well-bred doormat."

Bolton also stripped the President of any credit for the killing of Usama Bin Laden.

"It's because Navy Seal Team 6 killed Usama bin laden. That's his definition of success. As somebody pointed out, in 1969 when Americans landed on the moon, it's like Richard Nixon taking for credit for that, because it happened to occur during his presidency," Bolton said.

Bravo John Bolton! 

It's interesting.  I knew that the country had been swinging to the left -- not the right -- in recent years and have said so repeatedly. The Tea Party seemed, for only a moment, to be an opposite trend. But look at whom the Tea Party is about to end up with as a standard bearer, of all people: Mitt Romney, the architect of the inspiration for nationalized health care (also known as ObamaCare). 

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has reportedly said that every child has a "God-given" right to a heterosexual set of parents -- meaning man and woman, not two men or two women. He argues this in defense of a Constitutional amendment to ban gay/lesbian partnerships or marriages.

Think about the implications of this assertion. They go way beyond any debate over gay marriage or homosexuality in general. If somebody has a right to something, then they're entitled to it, via force, if necessary. We don't yet know how Santorum would implement this right, if given the chance. But since he's running for President -- the highest government office in the land -- he clearly believes that government should have some kind of role in enforcing this right.