Newt Gingrich’s admission of an extramarital affair as he pursued President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal has won praise from another conservative Christian leader: Rev. Jerry Falwell.
It’s also helped to gain Gingrich an invitation to deliver the commencement address at Falwell’s Liberty University. Gingrich is considered a possible Republican presidential contender, although he has not announced an intention to run.
Let’s not be ingenuously surprised here. We know that the Religious Right isn’t particularly invested in morality, not really. They’re interested in the appearance of morality. They just don’t have a candidate, and Newt looks good to them. He’s a white guy, a Conservative, and he will give them whatever they want. Running a Theocracy is hard work. Morality of the Ted Haggard before kind is hard to find.
So, we’re not surprised. But one really wonders how the faithful rationalize such baloney. Newt Gingrich is a political chameleon – he’ll be whatever it takes. To pass Newt off as anything close to the way they’re describing him here is just plain ludicrous. He was a sleazy teenager, a sleazy congressman, and he’s a sleazy Christian Right fair-haired boy.
My dad had a saying, "I don’t mind you peeing in my boot, but don’t tell me it’s water."
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