Comments for What Reagan Can Teach Romney and Santorum at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 11:51:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-reagan-can-teach-romney-and-santorum.html#comment-10223 Liberty is an affair of the heart as much as the First Principle. Reagan spoke about liberty with love....that is with joy, wit, charm, and most of all with charity toward her enemies. - Bob Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:57:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-reagan-can-teach-romney-and-santorum.html#comment-10211 or not. Winning the Presidency requires suppleness and grace. No man has won it by failing to inspire while remaining safely within the bounds of convention, and no man has ever winged it into Pennsylvania Avenue. - Dave Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:24:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-reagan-can-teach-romney-and-santorum.html#comment-10206 The only Republican candidate that has any claim to eloquence is Newt Gingrich. With Romney and Santorum, you have to be satisfied with other factors. - Howard Kainz Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:54:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-reagan-can-teach-romney-and-santorum.html#comment-10204 Everybody used to make fun of Ronald Reagan for being stupid, when actually he wrote many of his own speeches, and, as Frank says, he had thought long and hard about the meaning of the United States, and what freedom really is. In that sense he was closer in spirit to the Founders than anyone in the last hundred years. - Tony Esolen Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:22:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-reagan-can-teach-romney-and-santorum.html#comment-10201 Santorum, while right much of the time, lacks three necessary weapons to improve his rhetoric and take the offensive: wit, irony and humor. Romney is usually well-scripted but when off-the-cuff fumbles badly. Both would do well to make ample use of quotes from more eloquent politicians, theologians and philosophers who can give greater voice to the truth. - Grump Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:18:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-reagan-can-teach-romney-and-santorum.html#comment-10200 That style over substance is now such a dominant factor in the election of our President, and the leader of the free world, may - perhaps - be one indicator of why we find ourselves in the mess that we are in. - TomD Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:20:08 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-reagan-can-teach-romney-and-santorum.html#comment-10197 Beautiful! - Fr Michael Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:02:29 +0100