Excellent article. It should be mandatory reading for all those libs in this country who want to make Castro an idol.

There is a defense for Bain, but Mr. Barone's column seems to paint with too broad a brush. The fact Romney had left Bain at the time the subject company did the criticized layoffs did not resonate and should not have. The subject company was acquired when Romney was at Bain; after Romney left Bain, he was still on the SEC filings; and Bain did at thesubject company what private equity firms do. The defense is that in free markets, a private equity firm can come in and save an otherwise faltering company. The sense that Bain is part of the freedom we want is why the Bain attacks are failing. That sense overrides any concern that in a few occasions, private equity firms have engaged in what is called vulture capitalism.

It was a lovely article by a daughter who makes her Dad rightly proud.

As Karl Rove wrote in a column in today's Wall Street Journal, the Obama campaign is off to a rocky start, making a number of mistakes. But the November election is six months away. No one should assume that it will continue this way. I write that as a caution to fellow Republicans not to become overly confident.

I don't get the point of this column. My candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination was Newt and I am not a Romney fan (yes, I will vote for him). But my reaction to the news about Romney's eldest son and his wife was "Congratulations, may God continue to bless your family."

Excellent commentary.

A Polish American who grew up in Poland before and during WWII told me that Germany made a follish mistake in following Hitler, that given German industry, hard work and technology, Germany did not need to go to war to dominate Europe but would have dominated as a matter of the natural course of things. I was told that in the late 1980's just before East Germany collapsed. The present economic dominance of Germany in Europe did not surprise me.

Sorry, TexasChris, you are Incorrect on all three counts.

Newt was the right choice to be the Republican nominee -- period. As Nancy Reagan said, Ronald Reagan passed the torch to Newt, and Newt's intellectual performance during the primaries, rightly pointed out here by Byron York, showed that Newt is the heir to Reagan. Mr. Etch-A-Sketch, Northeast moderate Romney became the front runner by negative, false attack ads against Newt and then preserved that status by refusing after a certain point to debate. That's not how a Republican candidate should distinguish himself to be the one to run against Obama as the GOP nominee. The Republican Party needs to present a vision of the future for the American people, and Newt was doing that. Romney really wasn't.

Colonel North correctly identifies the problem for Republicans. It is not enough to say that Obama is bad. What Republicans need to do is to state what the problems are and offer an alternative set of policies to address them.