Actually the irony is that the pit vipers forced US into their game of 'Rules for Radicals' while the price of gas explodes and their dear leader rejects our neighbor to the NORTH the opportunity to buy NORTH American 'oil'.
I have family and friends that are really hurting, and higher gas prices is only making their lives more miserable. Newt's old 'sins' or Santorum's choice of attire notwithstanding.
When I think about “our lives, our fortunes, and our Sacred Honor,” and then see what's happening here, it sickens me to realize how absolutely mean and cowardly we've become. And how far even conservatives have wandered from our founding principles. It's not easy to watch people settle for one candidate as they gut a man who clearly has the qualities we've been waiting for in a conservative candidate.
They'll forgive one man who destroyed the heart of a wife to the extent that after all this time, her grief is still evident - they'll invoke Biblical quotations and God's mercy and they'll talk redemption, and yet they can't forgive another man for backing Arlen Specter, nor will they accept his repentance for this and certain votes he cast. All his years of fighting for the culture of life has earned him only contempt, accusations of weakness, and dehumanizing insults ranging from the mundane to the vicious.
If I've learned only one thing here it's that mercy is a very selective thing.