In an ideal world, I'd like to see a discussion on Free Republic about how evangelical social conservatives and secular conservatives can unite behind Newt Gingrich. Obviously, I don't make those decisions and it's probably not going to happen. But since it won't, here's a very detailed article on Free Republic by Rev. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, who has endorsed Newt Gingrich and comments on his spiritual condition:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2822096/posts
I find it helpful.
If Romney is going to be defeated, we evangelicals are probably going to have to make our peace with Newt Gingrich since it looks like he's the only person left who's able to do that.
Read the article, especially the sections near the end where the author says Gingrich has told him some important and very politically incorrect things about joining the Roman Catholic Church because it provides him structure in his faith and has a long history of successfully fighting Islam.
I am anything but a supporter of the Roman Catholic Church, but I like what Gingrich says about fighting Islam and modern liberalism.
I like it a lot.
I've pretty much come to the conclusion that while Gingrich would be barred from membership and probably even from receiving communion in my church, since the same is true for Santorum as a Roman Catholic, and since Gingrich has proved his ability to win Southern votes in a strongly conservative Bible Belt state like South Carolina, unless Santorum catches fire soon, we evangelicals are stuck with Gingrich as our only choice left and need to make the best of it.
I’m going to try to make my reasoning clear here.
Sarah Palin was my first choice for president, but the left, the GOP-E and many right here on FR wouldn’t have it. They trashed her and her family relentlessly with some of the unholiest filth and lies imaginable. Even so, I did little about it. I felt it was best to let the debate run its course and the best hard ass conservative would rise to the top. Well, they drove her completely out and she didn’t run. Didn’t want to subject her family to such suffering.
Then one by one, they did the same thing to Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Cain and Santorum driving their support numbers down and Perry, Cain and Bachmann out of the race. As each one took their turns as our leading non-Romney conservative they were relentlessly attacked, trashed and driven out.
Looked like we were repeating 2008 and were going to be stuck with a loser RINO again. We’re running out of conservative candidates and I’ll be damned if I’m going to allow Free Republic to be used to drive out our last remaining best conservative shot of defeating both Romney and Obama!!
Then a funny thing happened. Newt Gingrich, whom they’d left for dead, arose from the grave and began smiting the heathen. He’s back as a hard as nails, no nonsense, bad ass, battle scarred, conservative veteran of two conservative revolutions, the Reagan Revolution of the 80s and then his own Republican Revolution of the 90s. And they were both hugely successful for us.
I’ve looked at Newt’s plan. It’s Reagan’s plan on steroids. Radically reduce government, regulations taxes and spending, restore constitutionally limited government, restore states rights, restore individual rights, restore economic freedom, restore American excellence, whack and dethrone the liberal activist judiciary and get the government the hell off our backs, out of our lives and out of our religion.
Securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity!!
Now what is there not to like?
We are rebels trying to take back our freedom or aren’t we?
Rebellion is ON!!
Join or die!!
Don’t tread on me!!