Two things:

(1) Thanks so much for supporting our effort over here. When it comes down to it, we're all on the same team, and none of us benefit from letting disagreements blow up into bigger problems. We at RS are extremely grateful to y'all for endorsing our effort to get the Iraq story straight from the source, and I'd like to extend you a personal "thank you" for that, as well as to thank you on behalf of our community.

(2) I'm sorry that it seems that we're 100% anti-Romney at RS. However, I think that the perception is worse than the reality. The above commenter asserted that "[Erick] Erickson has come out as an arrogant, disrespectful hack w/regard to Romney." In truth, though, while Erick is sticking with his principles and refusing to sway from them (something we try always to do at RS), he has repeatedly said - this week included - that, were the primary held today, he would vote for Romney.

That's not being an anti-Romney hack, in my opinion; however, the unwillingness to let what he sees as a weak and obfuscatory argument from Mr. Hewitt about the illegitimacy of even considering Mr. Romney's religion as being a part of him is simply Erick doing what he feels is right, and taking a stand on his principles, regardless of who might be the person going astray.

As I said above, at the end of the day, we're all on the same team here. I'm from Georgia, where last year a GOP primary (in which a religious body was a large participant) tore the state GOP apart and left it in tatters. Let's not allow differences or disagrements over candidates do that on the national level in '07-'08, please.

Again, thanks so much for supporting our Iraq effort, and best of luck to the Romney campaign in the future. We're all on the same side, and if we make sure that we don't lose sight of that - as Justin has demostrated with this post - we can make sure that we are successful.

-Jeff Emanuel, RedState.com