Piles of Autumn Smiles

Okay, I know I'm behind. It is no longer Fall.  But I just got this picture and it cheered me today to see the triplets laying in the beautifully colored leaves with big, big smiles while seeing ugly gray fog out my window.

Somethings just make me smile. And one is when I hear someone pick a fight and strike out. This happened when Mitt Romney claimed that Newt was a strong critic of Ronald Reagan. 

Generally I just hear bits and pieces of Rush as I go about my daily business. Now I know why he was talking about Newt on his show yesterday. I heard him say that Newt was a big supporter of Reagan and a consistent conservative. 

Today, I read on Newsmax.com that Mike Reagan issued a statement lambasting Mitt and his supporters.

"I am deeply disturbed that supporters of Mitt Romney are claiming that Newt Gingrich is not a true Reaganite and are even claiming that Newt was a strong critic of my father.

"Recently I endorsed Newt Gingrich for president because I believe that Newt is the only Republican candidate who has both consistently backed the conservative policies that my father championed and the only Republican that will continue to implement his vision.

"It surprises me that Mitt Romney and his supporters would raise this issue - when Mitt by his own admission voted for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale who opposed my father, and later supported liberal Democrat Paul Tsongas for president.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney's achievement was the most socialistic healthcare plan in the nation up until that time.

"Say what you want about Newt Gingrich but when he was speaker of the House he surrounded himself with Reagan conservatives and implemented a Ronald Reagan program of low taxes and restrained federal spending.

"Newt's  conservative program created a high economic boom and balanced the budget for the first time in more than a generation."

He concluded: "I would take Gingrich's record any day over Mitt Romney's"

May God bless us with the truth and the spirit to understand when we hear it.