The real pity is that with his big spending and statist ways, neither is Santorum. If you believe there is a moral component to conservatism, the serial infidelity of Gingrich excludes him as well. And if you believe a conservative needs a grown-up world view for foreign policy, Dr. Paul is out also.
The real pity is that there is no conservative in the race. It is a pity.
We’re handing Zero this election on a silver platter
Newt Gingrich had an epiphany. He had to, or he would have self-destructed.
As a small child he witnessed his father beating and abusing Newt’s mother. She divorced him, remarried, and Newt was adopted by his step dad. Later he was sexually molested by a high school teacher. Yeah, the first wife he married because she became pregnant. He felt obligated. She asked for the divorce, not him.
This man was carrying a troubled emotional burden while serving in Congress but he sought counseling, joined AA and eventually turned his life around after a religious conversion.
What I’ve found shocking is the enormous number of so-called Christians here at Free Republic who are nothing of the sort.
Christians are not better than other people. They forgive others, ask forgiveness for themselves, and try to lead a better life by not sinning further. I’m not disgusted with Newt Gingrich, who I believe has honestly changed his life. I’m disgusted with the bigots who claim they are Christian but do not put it into daily practice.
The wild card is Gingrich.
He may be the radical, history making, right wing magician of old.
We know that Newt is one wild SOB, who knows how to shake up worlds, and is a (to quote Cool Hand Luke) “Natural Born World Shaker”.