For those who are unaware, U.S. conservative Newt Gingrich seems to be getting ready to male an early run for the Republican 2012 presidential race.
Gingrich has a somewhat laughable moral past and New York Times columnist, Gail Collins - rapidly becoming my favorite, globally -
lets the Gingrich hypocrite have it with two very witty smoking barrels for trying to defend his actions in the past.
"Anyone with a functioning moral compass must despair for the sick theater our political process has become. Is there any action so shameful or any hypocrisy so blatant that it would disqualify someone from running for public office?
After all, these are the people who will be making laws to punish the rest of us for doing far less heinous things than they have done...
...These hypocrites always seem to find God just when it’s politically convenient to do so, and claim that He has embraced them. Personally, I wouldn’t embrace Gingrich if I were wearing a hazmat suit and a respirator [but] it’s us humans who will have to vote for him and live with the embarrassing consequences, not some deity who is clearly undiscriminating about the company He keeps..."
New York Times reader Gemli
As I recall, the current Gingrich wife was - as the former romantic paramour - singing in the church choir in between their romps doin' the Wild Thing.
But then they both 'got religion' after dumping sick wife #2, got a Catholic Church annulment of all former "marriages" so they could be "good church folks" and now all is "forgiven" - the ‘family values’ folks sorta trigger the gag reflex with their professed sanctimony.
So Newt has now given up skirt-chasing for instead policing every uterus in the United States for any hint of promiscuous sex, contraception or potential abortion. 'Guess he can't afford to let anyone else be as "patriotic" as himself???
Oy vey! — a new low in political and moral spin.
New York Times reader Aileen 171
