Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Holy Shit!
That would be Newt Gingrich that the title is referring to. Dana Milbank, writing in the WaPo, has spilled the beans, Newt wants to be president so badly that he will even kiss the cross.
It says much about the transformation of the Republican Party that even Newt Gingrich is now carrying the cross.While the Goddites have not yet accepted his epiphany as fact, you know they will come around sooner or later. And in old Newtie's defense, history remembers that Henry of Navarre, in order to secure the crown of France, became a Catholic saying, "Paris is well worth a mass". No doubt Newtie has similar thoughts.
When Gingrich came to power 15 years ago, his Contract With America was a document of fiscal conservatism that mentioned God only in passing. When he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton a decade ago over the Monica Lewinsky affair, Gingrich was involved in his own longtime extramarital relationship with a former aide, who is now his third wife.
"Newt," Christopher DeMuth put it gently as he introduced the former House speaker Monday to a forum at the American Enterprise Institute, is "a politician who in his private life is a seriously religious man but who does not make religious belief an upfront part of his political platform."
His first two wives might have quibbled with the description of Gingrich as a seriously religious man in private. But after Monday's performance, nobody will ever again say that he "does not make religious belief an upfront part of his political platform." His talk was titled "The Victory of the Cross: How Spiritual Renewal Helped Topple the Berlin Wall."
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment