To Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States

There's a gaggle of Republicans trying to draw attention to themselves ostensibly so they can be the one to swear an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the United States as our next President.

All of them are doing their best to draw attention to themselves and prove they are worthy of that honor and responsibility. One of them Herman Cain, on Fox News Sunday told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that he supported a ban on the planned Murfreesboro mosque as an "infringement and an abuse of our freedom of religion."

This is a shame, and an opportunity for the other Republican candidates to distinguish themselves by speaking out against Cain's position. Certainly they should all stand up for his constitutional right to say such things, but if they truly aspire to protect and defend the constitution they must also chide him for falling short in recognizing the proper intent of the freedom of religion clause of the constitution.

There failure to do so is tantamount to a demonstration that they are unwilling to uphold the principles upon which our Constitution and democracy are built.

If they are unwilling to protect our constitution during the political campaign to seek this office, how can we expect them to honor it should they be elected? Is there not at least one of them who will stand up and say, Herman you are wrong?

We resolve these issue in our democratic system during campaigns, and candidates in these campaigns owe it to us and the process to sort out and defend the office and the constitution that creates it. Failure to speak up, is frankly un-American.

Maybe Michelle Bachman was right after all, just pointed in the wrong direction. It's the class of Republican candidates who need to be examined for their possible unAmericanism. That can occur as in Cain's case by staking an unconstitutional stance, or perhaps even worse, by all the others for failing to stand up and DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION from all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. And by domestic we certainly mean all those who would dare stand and ask out support for their candidacy to be President of the United States.

-Earl Netwal