All In The Family
Candace Gingrich goes after her brother:
Dear Newt,I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protestors of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O’Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you build your career by stirring up the fears and prejudices of the far right, I feel compelled to use the words of your idol, Ronald Reagan, “There you go, again.”
***Then again, we’ve seen these tactics before. We know how much the right likes to play political and cultural hardball, and then turn around and accuse us of lashing out first. You give a pass to a religious group—one that looks down upon minorities and women—when they use their money and membership roles to roll back the rights of others, and then you label us “fascists” when we fight back. You belittle the relationships of gay and lesbian couples, and yet somehow neglect to explain who anointed you the protector of “traditional” marriage. And, of course, you’ve also mastered taking the foolish actions of a few people and then indicting an entire population based on those mistakes. I fail to see how any of these patterns coincide with the values of “historic Christianity” you claim to champion.
Newt has had several marriages, if I remember correctly, so he does know a thing or two about traditional marriage. The family feuds are always the ugliest.
Homer_J
Actually he cheated on one of them:
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Sparkletts Water Show
Second!
O/T!
Cheese Alert! Damn that Winewoot.com!
cyntax
Wow, nobody pwns like family.
You go Candace!
Tymannosourus
Thanksgiving is going to be a blast at the Gingrich house this year.
r€nato
I thought he cheated on both of his first two wives.
I believe that he was having affair with future wife #2 when he served divorce papers on wife #1 while she was in the hospital recovering from chemotherapy.
Wife #2, he cheated on with a much-younger office staffer while busy prosecuting persecuting Bill Clinton for his little fling with Monica.
The guy is an utter douchebag. I hope he and Palin become the leading candidates for 2012. I look forward to the media taking both of their private lives lies apart.
Comrade Stuck
EEEEouch! That had to leave a mark.
Newt could care less about "Historic Christianity" . He’s still trying to figure out where God hid his stolen wingnut pony, so he can ride back into favor as the White Knight GOP savior. That’s about as Christian as it gets for his kind.
Tara the antisocial social worker
No discussion of the Newt is complete without the observation that while wife #1 was in the hospital after cancer surgery, Newt the Defender of Traditional Marriage brought a list of divorce-related demands and tried to get her to sign it, while she was still recovering from the anesthesia.
r€nato
OK… wikipedia sez these are the facts:
1) He married his former HS geometry teacher when he was 19 and she was 26. Hot for teacher, huh?
2) When humping the teacher got old (or after she appeared to be damaged goods thanks to uterine cancer), he carried on an affair with future wife #2 and appeared at the bedside of his first wife after she’d had surgery for said uterine cancer… not to wish her a speedy recovery, but in order to discuss details of their divorce.
3) The wikipedia entry conveniently fails to mention that he carried on an affair with future wife #3, the much-younger office staffer, while busying himself with moving forward the impeachment of President Clinton.
That this guy still has a future in the GOP, speaks volumes for how much further they still have to go before they reach bottom.
r€nato
I hope she jams a turkey leg or two right up his ass.
...then again, he might be one of those repressed Republicans who would secretly enjoy that sort of thing.
JGabriel
John Cole:
And the most entertaining!
At least, until the automatic weapons come out. Then it’s downright hilarious.
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GSD
Remember when Jesus riled up a crowd to stone some sinner to death!
OK, that’s just a GOP-er fantasy Jesus.
-GSD
SpotWeld
Is Newt relevant anymore?
passerby
HA!
I’m glad to give him this clue:
Same place God hid Bill Kristol’s pony and Elizabeth Dole’s pony.
The old ways don’t work anymore, Newt. This Christmas, get yourself an Easy-Bake Oven, relax, and go with the flow.
kay
I was reading the comments under yet another op-ed column on "how to revive conservatism", in the Washington Post.
All of the comments are by True Believers. Maybe 70% of them mentioned opposition to gay marriage as a winning political issue on the Right. Stats galore. No mention of the merits of the actual issue. Just endless smug satisfaction that they have a winner of a ballot issue.
Depressing.
I guess that’s it. They oppose gay marriage. Is that enough to sustain a national political party?
Scott H
Poor ol’ Newt, trying to raise his profile, and all he will do is increase Candace’s bookings. She’ll be back in People magazine while he is still wandering around backstage at Fox.
JL
@r€nato: Family values, Republican style…
JGabriel
Newt Gingrich Entry @ Wikipedia:
You know … somehow … I’m thinking that last sentence won’t survive very long in the Wikipedia entry.
It lack a certain je ne sais quoi, a watchamacallit, a certain … Objectivity! That’s the word.
I don’t know who wrote that article, but more power to ‘em. Cause that’s just great.
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Krista
Bwah-ha-ha! I hope many, many people see that page before Wiki amends it.
smiley
Something tells me they don’t spend much time together. She’ll never get close enough.
Delia
The Onion has Newt’s answer to Candace. I’m Not One Of Those ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ Christians
cyntax
@SpotWeld:
That’s $64 question. He’s sure working hard to become relevant again, and I’m personally looking forward to the cage match between him and Palin.
TheDeadlyShoe
I never really understood how the cold-blooded one fell out of favor in the first place. Was it just Tom Delay making a power play?
cyntax
And lo, that night began the Great Wiki Watch, wherein the miracle of the wisdom of the many was instantiated, and tho it was thought the douchebaggery of the Newt would not last out the night, the miracle was that it lasted till…
[update: “douchebag” still up as of this posting…]
Well that and Netwie got hoisted on his own petard for shutting the government. But let’s let Tom DeLay tell the heartwarming story:
I tell ya: Newt v. Palin= comedy gold
JGabriel
TheDeadlyShoe:
The R’s lost seats in the ‘98 House elections. The opposition party almost always gains seats during the 6th year of a President’s term, so Gingrich was selected as the scapegoat du jour.
Since no one on the right was going to admit that impeaching Clinton was a bad idea that didn’t go over well with the general electorate, it had to be because they weren’t conservative enough – like caving to Clinton’s budget requests. And that was somehow, obviously, all Newt’s fault.
I confess, it’s a little disorienting to see Newt rehabilitated as the Conservative’s Conservative only a decade after being shunned as "too liberal" in ‘98.
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JGabriel
@Krista:
Me too. It’s quite: special.
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demimondian
My guess is that whoever it is that’s at IP address 70.176.8.126 will see his or her changes reverted within the next couple of hours. Most of them are improvements over the previous contents, but the entry at 23:02 GMT is pretty much vandalism.
Brick Oven Bill
It was interesting to compare the response of the Christian, Jewish, and gay communities to Ahmedinejad’s New York (Columbia University?) address. I was honestly impressed with the gay community’s strong and vocal response to Islam’s spokesman. The Judeo-Christian response was flabby. A certain amount of militancy is a good thing. Swords, plowshares, turkey legs, and all that.
But Christians retain the right to walk in the Castro District every bit as much as blacks retain the right to walk on the sidewalk. It is in the interest of the gays to police themselves better. People don’t like to see grown men yelling at old ladies.
JGabriel
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Non-sequitur: defined.
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Napoleon
You go Candace
kommrade reproductive vigor
Dear me. Newt’s little sister seems to have kicked him right in the junk.
Let’s watch that again in slow motion.
Objective Scrutator
The earliest traditional marriage, a contract between a man and his concubine’s father, would be an excellent goal to push for. We crushed Prop 8, and we’re going all the way! Considering that Newt Gingrich is a master of legal obligations, I am certain that he would be equally competent at managing those kinds of contracts.
I never knew Gingrich had a moonbat sister. This is sad. We need to convert that deviant ASAP!
oclib
"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One…
shorter version of Eric Cantor: Spkr Pelosi was mean to us so we decided to fuck over the country. That’ll show her!
Maybe in one instance, I can wave it off….two times starts to cast a mold….among more serious reasons, these juveniles do not….ever
.....deserve to be handed the keys again….
Gary D
He cheated on all his wives and had a much bigger problem with keeping his pants on around interns than Bill Clinton.