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My dear friend, I believe we agree on the fundamentals heart to heart. So that I and mine might live, as scripture requires, I must accept a drink of vinegar, and support a lesser candidate, so that I and mine might live, as Deuteronomy speaks.

Please don’t mistake what I said for I said Mitt is but a reflection of the poor condition of the “better” half. Set before us, is the reflection of half the people. You are so correct to say he is no annointed one, but for us infrared he is the appointed one, given our sorry state.

I think how “good” Christian people poured out off their homes, moved away for “employment opportunities”, leaving their extended family and relatives behind, mothers left the home for “careers”, leaving their children behind, even infants to day care, children to state schools, trading instruction in the faith, family time, shared meals, for soccer practice, football practice, extracurricular busyness, and because we gave God an hour or two on most Sundays but not even all, we deign to think our governance should reflect “good” values and better candidates.

So I agree with you, but I see Obama, frankly, as possibly the seed of Hagar and Romney as simply a Gentile, outside the people of God. There is a difference. The Caliphate enabler isn’t Romney. One was to make war forever, and I see the Middle East on fire, and drone locust in the sky.

Sadly Rita, we have been drinking the vinegar of lesser evils for so long that the choice between a Democrat Socialist and an overt Marxist today - will end up into a choice between a Stalin/Hitler and a Nero/Mao at some cycle in the near future. What was considered evil and totally unacceptable to our priors, is today called good, while good (such as standing on faith and principle and refusing to compromise) is being called evil, by even those that at one time would have attended worship with us.

We were warned these days would be upon us. By both scripture and the Founders themselves.

At minimum, there is an accounting of what we did with the blessings and talents afforded us. Did we compromise for the sake of expedience for safety and security - or did we risk the thorns of this evil world by standing upon what is more eternally important?

Where I am most concerned, is that our people are grown so lukewarm in faith - they are lofting a man into a defacto position of savior out of abject fear of the other. The people have made a monarchy out of the Presidency - indeed, near popery - and even those in our rank of religion and ideology have succumbed and granted that power to the executive in their quest to anoint another man to the office for the vain hope of undoing the evil of the current king.

God seems to have given us over to our lusts and debased minds as Romans 1:28 warns. My focus now is on the remnant of the faith that see their allegiance to Christ as more than just a once a week ritual. We have to admit to ourselves there is no power or substance to our religion having influence in our culture any longer - exactly as Paul warned a young Timothy about such an evil generation in II Timothy 3.

Only a moral and religious people are capable of maintaining liberty, which includes electing leaders that are beholden to those principles. Yet we read nearly every day - the ridicule ascribed to anyone lauding those principles if they would not surrender them to vote for the lesser and expedient candidate.

I would love for this nation to pull a Nineveh when Jonah was sent, but such a thing is not going to come as a result of voting for political candidates to high office while resting our hopes on them.