Presidential Candidates in Iowa Tonight

I tuned in late to C-SPAN tonight and missed the first speech, which was from Newt Gingrich. I’m sure it was excellent. He’s brilliant. Ron Paul was next and he did a great job too. Third was Rick Santorum, former U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania. What a speech he gave! He made me cry, telling about the baby he and his wife lost. If everyone could hear him tell that story, America would surely have fewer abortions.

After the loss, Karen Santorum, the Senator’s wife, wrote letters to the baby. Eventually, they became a small book. I think the title is Letters to Our Baby. Only 2,500 copies were published, and so, it would be difficult to find a copy. It made me think of you, Marsha and Jake, with your loss—our family’s loss—of little Johnny.

A good-sized crowd attended this forum, many more men than women, not always the case. These people seemed to be the salt of the earth, and they hung around a long tine to talk with the candidates. I repeat what I said in an earlier blog: Rick Santorum seems to have the ideal family for living in the White House. ♥