Thursday, April 2, 2009

Newt Gingrich Reemerges, Thank God

Newt Gingrich is reemerging as a conservative leader. We should Thank God for this. It will be an ongoing reminder of why we should reject traditional conservative politics of unregulated capitalism and unquestioning support for military action. This is exactly how we got here, but Republicans in the Congress understand that they cannot get reelected by standing by the conservative platform as Gingrich proposes. This muddles the public debate on issues related to core values, so Gingrich, with his threat to participate in promoting a third party of "real" conservative values should be welcomed as a clarifying factor in the political landscape. Of course, this will serve to split the conservative vote and this is also good. It's just good all around and even better if Gingirich can spark a new party. Then maybe the Christian right can form another party in protest of the Republican lack of backbone in promoting the "Christian social agenda" and not wanting to associate itself with Gingrich's party due to his unsavory record on the family issues. This would be another blessing on America and would clearly identify those who do not have a clue as to who Jesus is. I do have one question that continues to bother me as a result of observing the Gingrich phenomena. I am just wondering how you can make a successful career of being publicly wrong, mean and immoral. Evidently it is a niche worthy of appearing on all the media outlets as an expert, but I am not sure if it is as expert in being wrong, mean or immoral or all three. Can somebody enlighten me?

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