Caroline wrote: "For its part, still smarting from the unpopularity of former president George W. Bush's campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Republican Party has yet to enunciate a clear foreign policy....Their stalwart and articulate support for a strong US alliance with Israel, and a strong and vibrant Israel, are the only coherent challenge to Obama's pro-Islamist foreign policy...." Sorry, I don't entirely buy this. I am a life-long Republican. I voted for Bush in 2000. I turned the page in 2004. Days after the 9/11/2001 Muslim terror attacks in New York and Washington, George W. Bush became the first American president to make the establishment of a Muslim-enemy state in Israel's heartland a formal goal of U.S. policy. But for Bush administration prodding and pressure, Gush Katif (Gaza) might not have been destroyed. Bush repeatedly told one untruth after another about Islam, the Palestinians, Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian land, etc. Romney followed suite. Romney rebuked Gingrich when he said the Palestinians are terrorists; that they are an invented people with the express purpose of the destruction of Israel. Romney surrogate, Sen. Jim Talent, successfully defeated pro-Israel conservatives on our national platform writing committee last August in Tampa, in behalf of the Palestinian and Muslim-world jihad against Israel. My party can do better than this. Much better.

Ben Shapiro wrote: "Conservatism has always been about preventing the power of government from invading the lives of citizens." Often thinkers, even gifted thinkers like Shapiro do not think their ideals to their logical conclusion. They ape proverbs like, conservatives want government "out of our lives. That is the essence of conservatism." A father is molesting his minor daughter in the privacy of his own bedroom. Shapiro? "Conservatism has always been about preventing the power of government from invading the lives of citizens."

"This is what the GOP must insist upon in exchange for a hike in the debt limit...." Mr. Hewitt appears to concede the Republicans will have to continue raising the debt ceiling. When will this end?

This is a very good piece with one small exception if I might quibble; the title. This democratically-elected president might be Mr. Hunter's dishonorable president. I do not claim Mr. Obama. I did not vote for him. I do not support him. To me Obama is repulsive and as this piece says, dishonorable. Too many conservatives say, "our president." Why? I understand Obama is America's democratically elected president; sadly. He is not my president.

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." I try to remind my Catholic friends and neighbors of the importance of this statement and how it applied to Pope Pius XII, but alas in vain.

You are right but charity in the Bible (see Deu. chapter 15) is an individual moral obligation. It is not the right or the duty of the king (the government) to tax its citizens in order to redistribute it to the poor. If King David wanted to help the poor, he did it from his own wealth. Same should apply to Barack Hussein Obama.

Right, and for a time in Germany in the early nineteen thirties Christians could still read scripture, etc., so long as they did not involve themselves politically in opposition to the Reich. What do you think we have in the White House presently? This is the guy who would like to shut down conservative talk radio, Fox News, etc. We can "still" read scripture. So?

A son of God can't be a Jew?

Not all Jews are liberal. Not all Jews support Obama. Israeli Jews are not all liberal. Israel is on the front lines fighting the jihadists.

The Bishops are fighting the requirement that church-owned and run institutions provide birth control to their employees, yet the Bishops got on board early on supporting Obamacare provided there was no funding for abortion-related services. In other words they were duped and betrayed. The lesson here should have been, it is never a good idea to do business with wicked people, whether it be concluding a concordat with Adolf Hitler or supporting Obama and Pelosi on Obamacare.