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S.C. GOPers embrace hypocrisy
By Bertram de Souza (Contact)
Published January 22, 2012
He took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to verbally slash at then President Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky affair — while himself cheating on his second wife with a mistress.He publicly pledged that he would not go negative in his bid for the Republican nomination for president, but did just that when he saw his campaign failing to gain traction.
He insisted that he wasn’t going to publicly criticize his second wife, Marianne, whom he divorced to marry his mistress, but sent his daughters from his first marriage — he divorced that wife to marry Marianne — to suggest that the second wife was a liar for saying in an ABC News interview that he wanted an open marriage.
Finally, he attacked the mainstream media for irresponsible and sensational news coverage, but Sunday morning was on national television pontificating about the real America.
And yet, on Saturday, Republican voters in South Carolina ignored Newt Gingrich’s numerous trysts — with hypocrisy — and gave him an impressive victory in the primary. In so doing, they slowed down former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s drive for the nomination, and made Florida’s Jan. 31 primary a must-win for Romney.
But it is the willingness of South Carolina Republicans of just about every stripe to ignore Gingrich’s character flaws, all the while wrapping themselves in the now stained cloak of family values, which was the real story of the election.
It will be interesting to see if Republicans in other states take seriously the admonition that aptly applies to Gingrich: “Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t run around naked.”
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Comments
Family values are the real story of the election, Bert? You actually think you can get away with slipping that BS in here? You're funny. And a dope.
Bert is right on this time. Gingrich is a hypocrite with a capital H. But then that's just what the Party of Family Values loves.
That's not too enlightening when only one party is associated, and yet criticized, with 'representing' family values and religion, don't you agree? 'The Party of Family Values' should be a Country of Family Values, shouldn't it? The 'Religious Right' is a media driven hoax.
Clinton was impeached and lost his law license for perjury, not for having "sex" with "that woman".
Bertram is just another biased columnist, certainly not a journalist. Gingrich is a hypocrite without much evidence, while Bill Clinton is not after wagging his finger into a TV camera and proclaiming I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMEN. Truth is ALL politicians lie, that is why people are fed up with them. One thing we do not need is another biased columnist taking shots at only one side.
Ninety % give or take of the black voters voted for Obama in 2008. Many were religious people and many were religious leaders. Obama admitted to using cocaine. Are all those religious blacks hypocrites? I don't believe they wanted a leader that showed weakness in his choices and that he couldn't be trusted to not break the law again sometime in the future.
Bert is insulting the voters of South Carolina is somewhat confusing since most of the country suffers from this ignorance. He ought to be complaining about the ignorant voters electing a freshman senator to lead a country in such dire times.
If Bert really wanted to shame Newt, he should use something much troubling. Newt was the Speaker in 1996 when they pass the Immigration bill that has caused the illegal immigration problem in this country. The politicians not only knew what would happen, they went ahead and created ITIN numbers so they could at the same time collect taxes from the illegals. That is why Newt is promising to secure the border but wants to legalize all the illegals
If I remember correctly, Newt left either wife #1 or #2 while she was recovering from cancer. Yep, he's perfect for the moral majority hypocrites.
A few things I've read about Newt...
Newt's first wife was his High School math teacher. She was 7 years older than him, and they had an affair going while Newt was still in High School. That entire bizarre story is interesting
And for those who don't know, Newt also eventually left his 2nd wife for the third one, right after the 2nd one was also diagnosed with a terrible disease..M.S.
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But let's all look at the whole picture...
The need for a true leader capable of giving us some hope and change vs the doom with gloom Obama has let get out of hand is truly what America needs. But that would take some good common sense thinking, along with Godly moral standards, and Americans collectively aren't ready for that.
Under Obama we have become a nation continuously wallowing around in dreary debt and other immorality, that knowingly and unknowingly is so negative, it flows over and pushes true Godliness right out off the USA radar screen, and so much so, at this point in time the vast majority of Americans don't know their right hand from their left, thus Newt is dealt with by the far Right as being "moral."
It is a fact just as Scripture tells us happens to Nations that turn their backs on Almighty God, ..we collectively don't know our right hands from our left, and therefore, we collectively think 16 trillion in debt isn't so bad...and we can tax our way out of it, if only the republicans would be fair to all those who aren't paying any taxes, and just tax the rich a little bit more.
Maybe so...
How about this for a solution that we collectively can agree on... Ted Strickland and Newt working together in a bipartisan way to insure Romney's vast wealth is more fairly taxed...and completely?