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Newt’s Greatest Liability
It’s not just the Religious Right that disdains marital infidelity.
In most assessments of Newt Gingrich’s presidential prospects (Gingrich began “exploring” a run for the Republican nomination in March), the former House Speaker’s three marriages, and the way he comported himself in the first two, are typically identified as his greatest liability.
But Gingrich’s past infidelity is typically seen as a problem for him solely among religious and socially conservative voters. As Newsweek’s Howard Kurtz put it, “Religious voters won’t flock to a guy who’s had three wives.”
That characterization is, well, too conservative. There is reason to believe that Gingrich will find his past indiscretions are a liability far beyond the Religious Right.
Marital infidelity remains a deep taboo in America. A 2008 Gallup poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) said they would not forgive their spouse for an extramarital affair. Only 10% said they would definitely forgive him or her.
In a 2007 Gallup poll, a sample of Americans was asked to rate the morality of 16 social issues — from euthanasia and cloning to gambling and homosexuality. The issue that netted the lowest acceptability rate (the difference between the share that thought the activity was “morally acceptable” and the share that felt it was “morally wrong”) was cheating on one’s spouse.
Ninety-one percent of respondents felt “married men and women having an affair” was “morally wrong,” while just 6% said it was “morally acceptable,” producing an acceptability rate of -85. Cheating was less acceptable than polygamy (-82) and cloning humans (-75).
Of course, voters are often willing to tolerate behavior in their elected representatives that they would never abide in their partners. President Bill Clinton’s approval rating peaked during the Lewinsky sex scandal.
But Newt shouldn’t take solace. A 2007 Pew poll found that nearly four in 10 voters said that an extramarital affair would make them less likely to vote for a candidate. Among Republicans, more than six in 10 voters felt that way.
Gingrich is guilty of more than just having an affair. He allegedly handed his first wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatment. And he was involved in an affair with his current wife, Callista, when she was a young staffer in his office in the mid-1990s — as he was pursuing impeachment of President Clinton for lying about an affair with a young White House staffer. It’s a perfect storm of infidelity, callousness, arrogance and hypocrisy.
Gingrich has plenty of other liabilities, mind you. He hasn’t held elected office in 13 years. And the last time he did, he left the stage in shame with a 70% disapproval rating. He became the first Speaker in U.S. history to be disciplined by the House for ethics violations.
Gingrich has been active since leaving office, writing books and producing documentary films. He’s still regarded as the one of the GOP’s brightest minds. But these days his most memorable forays into the political spotlight — the brash statements, provocative Tweets and erratic policy positions — often seem rooted more in a desire to be noticed than in sincere conviction or careful observation.
All of this has left Gingrich unpopular even with voters in his home state. An April survey found that just 39 percent of Georgia voters have a favorable opinion of Gingrich. Forty-seven percent view him unfavorably. Less than a third of voters surveyed (31%) feel Gingrich should run for president.
Gingrich hasn’t raised much money either. According to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission, his political action committee raised a paltry $53,000 in the first quarter of 2011.
Gingrich hasn’t handled his past indiscretions very well in public. When asked recently about his prior unfaithfulness, Gingrich told the Christian Broadcast Network “there’s no question, at times of my life — partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country — that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.” This statement earned him scorn from across the political spectrum, and the nickname “The Horny Patriot.”
Callista Gingrich appears more and more at public events with her husband. Mrs. Gingrich, a life-long Catholic, is credited with helping in Gingrich’s 2009 conversion to Catholicism. But her presence on the campaign trail may merely remind voters, especially women voters, that she was “the other woman” who broke up Newt’s second marriage.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.26.11 @ 6:14AM
Mr. Gingrich is just another slime trail headed out of D.C. who wants to return.
He has few principles worth fighting for, and those appear available to either the highest bidder or political movements which can garner him votes.
He's for stealth amnesty to illegal aliens and threw his political name behind the global warming movement.
There are his views and they are not principles.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.26.11 @ 8:29AM
Something from the Washington Post today. Gingrich taking $300,000 from the ethanol mafia:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/....._blog.html
ormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has tangled with conservatives over his support for ethanol subsidies, got $300,000 from the ethanol lobbying group Growth Energy in 2009. He was described by the group as someone who would offer advice on “strategy and communication issues” and “speak positively on ethanol-related topics to media.” He did not get any money from the organization in 2010. A spokesperson for Gingrich responded to National Review about the story, saying the likely presidential candidate “supports an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy.
Dee See| 4.26.11 @ 6:30AM
Gingrich was a prime presiding figure during
the very height of the RED China sellout and
TREASON op. and has served as the perennial
champion of micro-chip EUGENICS and the
Globalist 'drift of things' ('tainted' and mandatory
vaccines, GMO sterilants etc. etc.).
He's shown no repentance, or even much consciousness as we're currently being defrauded
of the very marrow of sovereignty itself as 30 MILLION illegal aliens (REAL figure) are about
to be joined by another 80 MILLION 'trusted
travellers'.
DON'T GO NEAR GINGRICH-----------------------
PsychoDad| 4.27.11 @ 7:50PM
Sir, what brand tinfoil do you think makes the best caps?
Doctor Right| 4.26.11 @ 6:41AM
I was completely against a Gingrich candidacy until I saw him a few weeks ago on FOX with Greta Van Susteren discussing the Libya fiasco. He brilliantly dissected every angle of that mess, and had sharp words for Obama's incompetence and lack of qualifications for the office he occupies.
Since then, I've adapted a wait-and-see approach with Newt. He's one of the few potential GOP candidates with the creds to tackle Obama head-on.
The Big E| 4.26.11 @ 9:10AM
Even a blind hog finds and acorn now and then. The fact that a person can brilliantly dissect how someone else is mis-handling a crisis doesn't mean they're even remotely qualified to handle one themselves. Look at Gingrich's record over time, as described in this article, and you will find that while he may have some ideas worth listening to on occasion, there is no way you want him in any position to be making decisions. His judgment is, to put is mildly, highly suspect.
canuckistani| 4.26.11 @ 9:53AM
Was this before or after or after or after he flip-flopped on that precise issue?
Just wunderin'
Chef Schnauzer| 4.26.11 @ 6:50AM
Newt's inability to keep his vows to God and a variety of women is really his problem, I don't care. What is offensive beyond repair is that Gingrich is trying to claim a false epiphany to fiscal responsibility and some sort of fealty to the genuine core values of the Tea Party when his actions shout that the only Gingrich fealty is to Gingrich. He is a large part of the problem, he can't be trusted, he loves the sound of his own voice. Why anyone would give this self-serving fraud a second thought is beyond me.
Mike Walsh| 4.26.11 @ 6:56AM
Guys like Newt give sleazy opportunists a bad name. He is the Jessie Jackson of the Republican Party, a spoiler candidate trying to leverage his position for whatever he can get. With his undoubted political savvy, he should be welcomed to serve in an advisory capacity, but nothing more.
canuckistani| 4.26.11 @ 9:57AM
My favorite was his stunt to show a JP2 movie with his 3rd wife to a Catholic audience.
I give him high marks for audacity and not much else.
Between newtie and lieberman, not sure who wins the race to the top of slime pyramid in DC.
caroline| 4.26.11 @ 4:20PM
I saw Newt and Wife No. 3 on a Catholic television network interview show, where the interviewer fawned over these devoted Catholics, for a religion that apparently makes no demands to live a moral, honest life. If ever there were a case of two ambitious, deceptive, phony people deserving each other, this is it. Wives No. 1 and 2 should be glad he left, and Wife No. 3 probably has him hooked up to a GPS device with private investigators on hire, just in case.
michigander_sandusky| 4.27.11 @ 12:05AM
The Catholic Church must have granted one of their infamous "annulments."
Jesus plainly said, "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery." (Matt 19:9)
Periwinkel| 4.26.11 @ 7:23AM
The Horny Patriot and his albino wife should go home and write books. I love most of Newt's ideas, but I can't stand the man. He let down Republicans when we needed him most; no second chances for this guy. His explanation for his infidelities was just mind boggling...how stupid does he think we are?
P.Smith| 4.26.11 @ 8:00AM
If a man is not faithful within the very basic institution of marriage, how can he be trusted within the institution of government where the opportunity to stray philosophically is nearly unlimited.
I also didn’t care for the bit where Gingrich stood next to Pelosi for the anthropogenic global warming is fact ad paid for by none other than the Al Gore.
Conserdude| 4.26.11 @ 8:02AM
This analysis is outstanding. I've said for months that Gingrich would be a disasterous candidate. He is brilliant in many ways, but a flawed character and a flawed leader who will flop as a presidential candidate. Maybe he needs to get running for president out of his system before he dies, but he should spare himself and the GOP. Even from a pure leadership analysis his speakership, under examination, was flawed and mishandled - just read some of the books by GOP congressmen since then, including Bill Paxon's.
Michael Tomlinson| 4.26.11 @ 8:35AM
Newt would make an excellent Secretary of State in the new Republican administration. Of course, anyone would be better than the failed Clinton State Department that has empowered the Chinese, Iranians, Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, jihadists, Europe, etc..
R Martin| 4.26.11 @ 10:11AM
No, that job should go to John Bolton.
Michael Tomlinson| 4.26.11 @ 10:49PM
R you're right. I'm sure the Republican President can find a job suitable for Newt's brilliant mind. How about political advisor? Flawed are not there are few Americans who understand the history and nuiance of politics like Newt.
LarryK| 4.26.11 @ 8:39AM
The left, right and middle watch the kabuki theater and every 2/4 years, there is a "new boss" same as the old boss.
We truly are doomed!
Melvin| 4.26.11 @ 8:42AM
Newt Gingrich is not the perfect candidate. Some have noted of his failures to God, and his Wives. First it is not I to judge Gingrich on his failure to God.
When Newt's time to leave this Earth, then God and God alone will pass judgment against him.
Newt's marriages is between his wive(s) Newt and Newt alone has to bear that burden.
Someone said, "To error is human." We have all done things that we are not proud of, including myself, and I apologize to God for the bad things that I have done.
Right now my fellow Conservatives we are in a heavy weight fight for our political ideology. Who ever wins this fight whether it be the Socialist Democrats and their supporters withing the European Progressive Republican Party or the Conservative Party will dictate the direction and legacy of this Country.
Love him or hate him Newt has the political skills to martial the Army to defeat the Socialist Democrats.
Conservatives need to put social issues on the back burner until we defeat the Socialist Democrats, we cannot defeat them on our own or we would have done so already.
We need to make political alliances with Libertarians and Independents if we have any hope of defeating the Socialists Democrats.
Listen to Newt he has the political skills to form these political alliances.
The Big E| 4.26.11 @ 9:15AM
Newt is not a bridge-builder, he is a bridge-burner. If he has such brilliant skills to form alliances why has he formed none with those who serve as his base? Look around on this site and see what percentage of commenters want Newt to run, and what percentage want to never hear his voice again. If he's so great at forming alliances, why has his exploratory committee been able to raise so little money? I'm sorry, but your analysis of Newt falls flat in the face of reality. He CANNOT win the primary and has nothing to add to the debate except rancor and bad feelings. Newt should stay at home.
Melvin| 4.26.11 @ 9:29AM
This is true, but most of those who do post, do so citing Newt's personal peccadilloes, and not necessarily his political skills.
"E" we are currently in a battle with a Constitutional Lawyer who knows exactly how to wield our Constitution as a weapon against us. We need someone to equal that.
Again, I'll say this. Newt is not the ideal General, but he has the political skills to counteract act Obama's Constitutional Law.
canuckistani| 4.26.11 @ 10:02AM
so his manipulation of the constitution to impeach a president for a BJ is an example of what exactly?
There should be a double-damages clause in that same impeachment article if the accuser is shown to be enacting a malicious prosecution....in other words, he should have resigned the moment Hyde and his cabal of idiots, that included the Mark Sanfords of the world, usurped his power....or did they?
W| 4.26.11 @ 11:55AM
Did you forget clinton's perjury during the deposition for which he was fined and disbarred, lying, obstruction of justice, or do you consider BJ a summary of bill's administration?
The Big E| 4.26.11 @ 12:46PM
Referring to Barack Obama as a Constitutional Lawyer is an insult to every real Constitutional Lawyer in the Country. Correct me if I'm wrong, but name 1 case, just 1, that he has ever argued in Court. Cite me 1 brief, just 1, that he has ever filed in any appellate Court. Barack Obama's understanding of the US Constitution is comparable to Christopher Hitchins' understanding of Bible. He may be able to cite you quotations from it when it suits his purpose, but in reality, he has no clue what he's talking about.
Harry the Horrible| 4.26.11 @ 9:27AM
If you're not going "judge," please don't vote. Judgment, good judgment, is required when you select a candidate, and apparently you're lacking.
It should be patently obvious to the casual observer that Newt has proven is that the can't be trusted. If he doesn't honor his marriage vows, why should we trust him to honor his oath of office? If a man can't be trusted with "small" things, you certainly can't trust him with the large ones.
Patzer| 4.26.11 @ 8:48AM
Newt is a modern-day Ben Franklin. A brilliant man who has much to contribute to our cause, but not presidential candidate material.
canuckistani| 4.26.11 @ 10:06AM
What has he contributed to "our" cause?
I saw the Contract on America quickly go from sound conservative legislating to a devolution into the slime of impeachment, scandal and his own personal implosion.
He is just another clown on the right that sucks up too much oxygen while real work needs to be done.
Windbags like him only buttress BHO's chances of reelection.
ncatty| 4.26.11 @ 9:24AM
To be elected, a candidate has to be likeable at some level. Gingrich is not.
Melvin| 4.26.11 @ 10:24AM
I respect your opinion, but this Country is not into a position or afford a candidate who is likeable . Being likeable is what has got this Country into trouble in the first place.
Obama was extremely likeable, and look what has happened.
Boehner is likeable, Cantor is likeable, but their focus is being likeable and not be able to fight for their convictions.
Generals Patton, Macarthur weren't likeable, they were egotists, but they at that particular time in history is exactly what this Country needed to defeat fascism and tyranny.
Chef Schnauzer| 4.26.11 @ 9:25AM
Until conservatives hold candidates responsible for the actions and judge them by their actions we will have what we have now: a national party that only pays lip service to conservatives for money and primary votes. In America there is almost never 'an only one who....' What makes America great is that if I don't preform to expected standards there are thousands working in the wings to snatch an opportunity that I had missed. Unfortunately progressives and psudo-conservative believe that good intentions void consequences of bad actions and poor decision making. This is false. A real man would stand up and say, " I accept pubic responsibility for my public fouls." Those who choose public life and attempt 'one potato, two potato' cafeteria style standards become as big of a sniggering joke as Pelosi-catholic.
Anthony| 4.26.11 @ 9:28AM
Newt is a brilliant but deeply flawed man. His ego is out of control as is his appetites.
He waffles between the leftist establishment (global warming ads) and the anti-establishment when he needs to bone up his conservative bona fides. In short, he's too slick by half.
I've been in the same room with this man several times, he is a dynamic speaker with a very sharp mind; he could have been a great president but for his flawed sense of personal responsibility and lust for power.
If he truly cared about the future of America, he'd get behind a Palin or Bachmann and help them develop.
They are the future, he is yesterday's news, but like the NY Times, he's the last to know.
Doc Kimble| 4.26.11 @ 11:15AM
Brilliant analysis, Dan, and Anthony, I hear you. My heart says Palin/Bachmann, too. I hope Palin runs, and I will vote for her, but I doubt she will be accepted by Republicans as a group. And I fear the reason for this will be because she is everything that Newt isn't.
Paul from SA| 4.26.11 @ 9:29AM
Gingrich's main purpose for life on this planet is to be an attack-dog, and that is a compliment; that is his best trait. There is no one better than when he was Speaker. He can slice and dice liberals with ease.
I will never excuse Gingrich for promoting global warming with Nancy Pelosi. Never. No person can be that wrong about an issue and maintain any credibility.
JayDick| 4.26.11 @ 9:52AM
Newt is brilliant, but he is a statist. He wants the government to do the things he likes rather than the things the liberals like. I want a president who doesn't want the government to do anything that is not absolutely necessary, who doesn't look to the government as the first-in-line problem solver.
Petronius| 4.26.11 @ 9:56AM
Newt wants now what he wanted when he was speaker; membership in the beltway clique. And he pulled Conservative's chains repeatedly in attempts to make it. He even admitted it to Gerry Seib in the WSJ: "These Conservatives should understand going in, they're going to be sold out." That was Jan. '96. And my memory is by no means short. His conservatism is counterfeit. No mas.
canuckistani| 4.26.11 @ 10:13AM
Perhaps he only spoke the truth - that the conservative "agenda", you know the one we spout off on here that is miles to the right of RR and other apostles, is a non-starter.
Richard Baker| 4.26.11 @ 10:16AM
Newt is very intelligent and chock full of good ideas. That being said, his chances of becoming President are as good as those of my dog, Kenan, who is far and away more faithful.
Kurt| 4.26.11 @ 10:20AM
Newt, Please go back to playing global warming footsies on the park bench with Pelosi and LEAVE US ALONE!! I was one of your biggest supporters 15 years ago but your track record since then is more than horrendous, I would say bordering on TREASONOUS!!! Newt just go away, PERIOD!!!
Seek| 4.26.11 @ 11:51AM
Private life ought to be kept private. But the public Newt Gingrich, regrettably, wants to be liked more than feared, which can be a liability. He's tight with Rev. Al Sharpton on education and Nancy Pelosi on global warming, and is an open-borders enthusiast. (Back in the Nineties he supported statehood for Puerto Rico on the premise that Puerto Ricans were "natural conservatives').
Gingrich is a brilliant and likeable man, and is right on many things. But on some key issues, he's wrong. I'd say wait and see. He's good enough to give another look. He's certainly preferable to an airhead like Palin. But there are lot of unanswered questions.
As they said in the Cold War: Trust but verify.
St. Thor| 4.26.11 @ 11:53AM
Gingrich has no follow through. In 1982 he proposed a brilliant big science project to follow up the Man on the Moon project. It could have been done, but he made no apparent effort to convince others in D.C., including the President, to launch it. His treatment of the Contract with America was similar. Very little of the Contract was passed, and he caved when Bill Clinton looked cross-eyed at him over the budget. His contributions and ideas are just so much late night college sophomore BS. He is not needed as a candidate, nor as an adviser, nor even as a Cabinet Secretary.
rightasrain| 4.26.11 @ 12:08PM
Having to spend all your time explaining why your candidate is not a slimeball is not a recipe for success. Democrats have no problem exploiting character issues and Newt certainly has more than his share of those. Hope he pulls a Barbour very soon.
Elizabeth in Texas| 4.26.11 @ 12:54PM
The deal breaker for me was when he was touting ethanol subsidies. Wasting the taxpayers money (and increasing the costs of operating a vehicle) are a little more immediate than adultery. Selling out principles for campaign contributions is dishonest too.
Nancy in NC| 4.27.11 @ 3:21PM
You forgot burning our food!
Phileo | 4.26.11 @ 1:01PM
Gingrich will be rejected by social conservatives not only for his hypocrisy when it comes to marriage, but even more important because of his hypocrisy in his claim to be a conservative. Let us not forget his endorsement of the liberal establishment Republican in the NY District 23 primary and his rejection of the conservative candidate or his endorsement for many big government policies, including global warming. He is a failed political leader as he allowed Republicans to be blamed for the government shutdown giving Clinton a win. Conservatives do not need or want him. Only the liberal media keeps him visible and alive as a potential candidate for President.
Rick V.| 4.26.11 @ 2:49PM
It all boils down to "Newt Gingrich" and "infidelity, callousness, arrogance and hypocrisy." Have we not had enough of that from the past (and current) administrations of DEMS and REPUBS? Do we really need anyone to lead us forward into the past?
Pete | 4.26.11 @ 3:47PM
Wouldn't it be great to have a candidate who one felt genuinely enthusiastic about pulling the lever for? It certainly won't be Gingrich (assuming he is a choice) but then, he may well be the least flawed candidate for the job.
Derek Leaberry| 4.26.11 @ 4:11PM
I've skimmed the replies and strongly agree with almost every sentiment. I plan to read all the posts more thoroughly while downing a beer on my back deck tonight and expect to be entertained. I would add two comments. First, Newt's recent conversion to Catholicism would be worthy of respect if he didn't seem to use his conversion as some sort of attempt at self-promotion. Converts should be more humble. Gingrich should not act as if he wanted to conspire to make himself a church leader. Second, I find it disturbing that Gingrich never went home to his Georgia home after retiring from the House in 1998. Apparently he had little affinity for his home community. Like tens of millions of Americans, he seems absolutely rootless and cut off from community and from the land. That men like Obama, Gingrich, Cheney and the Clintons can rise to the top of American politics just shows how sick the political culture is.
bluecollarbytes| 4.26.11 @ 10:03PM
If I could I'd give you a vote up, especially your last sentence, except for Cheney- who I consider one of the few true public servants we've had.
Derek Leaberry| 4.27.11 @ 8:52AM
Did Cheney ever return to Wyoming? No, he left that place long ago. He's a very modern man with one feminist daughter who refuses her husband's name and one lesbian daughter who has given birth to a test-tube baby. The Cheney family as a whole has turned its collective back on Christianity and Western Civilization.
Bob| 4.26.11 @ 6:58PM
The runt in Indiana has a similar problem except his current wife the second time around cheated on him and ran off with another man. What a soap opera, the rag mags, TMZ, etc. will have a field day, then the mainstream media will pick up the story. Well Governor Baldy do you still want to run for president?
Chuck| 4.26.11 @ 7:03PM
Thanks Speaker Newt for the 1994 election victory. For the first and only time in my lifetime the GOP was united and gave Bill & Hillary a shock of their lives. But forget about the WH, do what you do best write books and give policy speeches.
Owen Kinnan| 4.26.11 @ 8:17PM
Gingrich has more issues than just the affairs. Read the book, "Breach of Trust" by Dr. Tom Coburn, former House member and practicing physician from Oklahoma. Dr. Coburn explains how Gingrich sold out the Republican Conservative movement in the House, back in 1994-1996. Judging by some of his recent comments, and past performance, Gingrich is part of the problem not the solution.
bluecollarbytes| 4.26.11 @ 9:59PM
"there's no question, at times of my life -- partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country -- that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."
This is enough reason to oppose a Newt nomination. No sense in putting Newt in the untenable position of being 'partially driven by how passionately he feels about this country'....which of course leads him, evidently, to all 'that other stuff'.
Actually that sounds like it could have just as easily come out of Bill Clinton's yap, after having been caught again.
arlo price| 4.27.11 @ 12:05AM
Inability to accept full responsibility for his actions.
C Smith| 4.27.11 @ 12:52AM
Newt? The guy who visited his wife in the hospital as she was recovering from cancer surgery to discuss divorce? Wanted to marry the woman he was currently "bedding." This lasted until Newt and Bill found something in common, interns and staffers decades their junior. May America's deliverance arise from another place!
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. And she, being before instructed of her mother, said,Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger (Matthew 14:3-8).
http://popularapostasy.blogspo.....erica.html
C Smith| 4.27.11 @ 1:49AM
And there is the "other" liability:
You know it … as the dark ages. Here you have the [Roman] Church at its peak of dominance in the world. And what do we have? We have superstition. We have spiritual, moral, and intellectual darkness. We have apostasy with all of the occult and the corruption of that period of time. This was the time of the rise of a church hierarchy, the time of the inquisition where under … the sigh of the cross, thousands of people were slaughtered in the name of Christ. … There is a true remnant within the Catholic Church who will be raptured. And God loves your Catholic friends, and your Catholic neighbors, and your Catholic relatives. He loves them like He loves the rest of the world. But these people have been bowing before an image that has its origin and roots in paganism, a priesthood that has its origin in paganism. And they have forgotten the centrality of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ....
http://theisraelofgod.blogspot.....-jews.html
Mike Walsh| 4.27.11 @ 6:19AM
Great Whore o' Babylon! --You can always count on your "Christian" bigots to come out anytime the Catholic Church is mentioned. Go back to reading your Jack Chick comic now, Mr. Smith; nurse will be along presently with your meds.
Richard Baker| 4.27.11 @ 10:43AM
Walsh:
Agree with your sentiments. As a Catholic, I am sorry that the Margies and Smiths of the world too often represent Christianity in public..
Casey Brown-Myers | 4.27.11 @ 12:56PM
I think Newt will face some backlash in regards to his past marriages, but one must remember Bill Clinton's job approval rating rose during the Lewinsky scandal and subsequent impeachment. So I'm not totally convinced that one issue would keep Newt out of the White House.
PsychoDad| 4.27.11 @ 7:53PM
Came for the anti-Catholic rants, left satisfied that all is ignorance in protestantland.
Dee See| 4.28.11 @ 12:03AM
---Classical oppurtunist and sellout enabler
Newt Gingrich ---was there! when this current
mess was being put in place!
Remember, he made his name handing out
Toffler's 'Third Wave' , a capstone propaganda
tome advocating, among other abominations,
the 'seamless merging' of the US with the
genocidal values of the Soviet bloc, thus
oiling the treads for the RED Chinese sellout
as well.
FORGET NEWT! -----and call for
Retro-active IMPEACHMENT of our past 4 Tavistock Institute/CFR set-up Globalist front op
administrations.
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nperry| 4.29.11 @ 11:25PM
Sorry, Newt has seen better days. There's no doubt he's bright but he hasn't run a campaign in over a decade and frankly, I don't think he can compete anymore. He has not shown anyone he can be trusted to carry the torch.
Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 9:48PM
is good