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http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/01/31/is-newt-gingrich-the-new-religious-right/Is Newt Gingrich the New Religious Right?
Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 8:00 AM
Mark Misulia
Thomas B. Edsall at the New York Times speculates about the future of the religious right in light of its current public representatives, citing an Clinton-era letter in which Paul Weyrich despaired over whether or not there really was a moral majority:
I no longer believe that there is a moral majority. I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually shares our values Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture. The questions becomes, if we are unable to the escape the cultural disintegration that is gripping society, then what hope can we have?
What would Weyrich have to say, Edsall asks, now that Newt Gingrich, who was himself having an adulterous affair during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, won the 2012 South Carolina Republican primary with a plurality of voters who described themselves as evangelical or born-again Christians?
Edsall goes on to claim that Gingrich is the first conservative presidential candidate to run on a platform of traditional values from which he is exempting issues relating to personal sexual behavior. But Gingrich wouldnt have reacted so furiously to John Kings question about his open marriage if he really was indifferent to personal sexual ethics. Sensitivity is its own kind of concern.
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Is Newt Gingrich the New Religious Right? (Original Post)
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niyad
(113,552 posts)1. he is a lying, hypocritical, sanctimonious, hate-filled thug? hmmmm. . .
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)2. Torqamada is the new religious right , Knutes
just a misanthrope and an oppurtunist.
denbot
(9,901 posts)3. He was a hypocritical grifter before Carabou Barbie, and he's picking up where she left off.
He know where the rube's keep their cash, and how to get them to cough it up.