Everything matters but if a loved ones heart stops you don’t question the doctors commitment to marital fidelity. I try to tell my kids, my wife and anyone else who will listen, we’re not picking a guy to date my daughter of marry my sister. We’re picking a guy to go toe-to-toe with the worst people on earth. Often. We’re picking a guy who can understand how an economy works and how not to (further) screw it up. We’re picking a guy who can draft a realistic budget.
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.
“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
- John Adams -
Newt is a serial monogamist, as many of us are or were.
I finally figured out after 6 years of marriage to my first wife and 25.5 years to my second, that it is simply not worth it.
I have simple reasons for that; the simplest is that now when I put something someplace, it is where I put it when I go to retrieve it.
No denigration meant for the lady FReepers, just sayin'.
There are many things that should matter and there will be no candidate that will live up to 100% of our expectations 100% of the time, which will always leave our decision about a candidate as a result of our reflections on a spectrum of values and issues, hoping to pick one who, in sum, seems better, in summary, than the rest.
There are no saints, except maybe in heaven, but certainly not in politics.
But I'll just look at the $500 million dollars in tax money that BO stole to pay off his Solyndra campaign contributors and those two big negatives cancel each other out.
I can do this sort of moral accounting for each of Newt's foibles or sins, and still not get past breakfast, day one of the Obama Administration.
Newt's treats his wives like crap, but so does my car mechanic. I just need to know he can fix the car.
There's a difference between someone with a complete lack of character and someone with a character flaw that he prayed God would correct.
“, a man who has employed some of the most despicably divisive leftist tactics ever used by a conservative candidate “
How the Hell did he go from a title of fidelity to that?? He never presented any facts to support that statement. “American Thinker”? I don’t think so.