The Editor’s Desk

This is in response to the article entitled concerncing Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. I read the article at the library today as was intrigued at the not so subtle way you attacked religion and promted yout secular, anti-religion, atheistic view. Please if I am wrong in my assesment, I will stand corrected. You obviously a liberal who votes democrat, hates the war in Iraq, Goerge Bush, and of course as I stated before is anti-religious. That said you are incorrect time and time again in your articel. You are the editor of this magazine correct? Again if I am mistaken please correct me. First your incorrect to ridicule Romney for not addressing the so called irrleligious or anti-religious. His speech was referencing the history of America and the faith of our founding fathers. Our country was founded on faith and religious freedom. It was freedom to worship God in whatever way you wished. Not worshiping God would have been a minority view in their time and is also today if your look at any statistic polling the subject. Mitt was connecting with what our country was founded upon and should still be today. Criticizing hime for not mentioning those like yourself who would I am sure like to forget the faith of our fathers, was uncalled for and unprofessional. Secondly you refer this Republican race to a holy war. In a time when so called "liberals" want tolerance and peace and unity for all faiths, you're going around stirring up a holy war. That's something we would all like to remeber and relive. This is nothing like a holy war it's called a presidential race. There both competing for the presidency of the United States. You seem to be attempting to polarize republicans and also to keep any democrats or undecided voters from going onto their side. Finally you use quotes from our founding fathers to prove some awful point about how our republican candidates should try gaining the vote of maybe 5 % of our population, depending on how mamy journalists and professors are in the US at any given time. John Jay was a historic figure in the founding of our country. The very first chief justice of the US Supreme Court.. He is quoted as saying "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. It is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." We needed to religious test because it was the rule of the day that people would and should elect Christians to properly govern a Christian nation. Please be advise Sir, that your view is incorrect, is completly contradictory with our American heritage and is way to obvious. And oh by the way, please refer me to a country or nationsthat has had great success promoting freedom for all, apart from a religious and moral law, Thank you for your time.

Why did'nt you put Mitt on the cover. He had all of the international attention this past week . He is the only candidate that I would be proud to show off to the international community. People can say what they want about him, but nobody has a resume like Romney! Amazing family, two Harvard degrees, great morals, no skeletons in the closet, great looks, fantastic background, etc. He has proven that he is not corrupted by all of this! He is cast right out of a Hollywood movie. If he is not in the race, I will vote democrat. Go Mitt!!!!!

If Mitt Romney is an example of a Mormon then I have little regard for that religion. He gives used car salesmen a bad rep. He believe that to be a president you have to be a christian. His world view keeps changing over and over and has little tolerance for anyone who disagrees with him. Why any evangelical would be swayed by this snake oil salesmen is beyond me. But then people will believe what they want to believe....all those bible myths come to mind

When my current subscription of your magazine ends in Feb of 08 I will not renew. There are two words: Karl Rove. Why you would allow this despot to grace the pages of your magazine with his own column is beyond me especially when in the current issue you write how he has distorted the history of why we went to war in Iraq. If one of your reports lied as much as this politician does repeatedly, you would fire him.

The message is clear: lie continually, mislead the American people, win elections by pitting one group against the other and use fear as a tool, and Newsweek will reward you with your very own column. There are several outlets where mr Rove can post his lies but Newsweek should not be one of them. That you will pay him to do this is outrageous. You won't be doing it with my money.