Christian Right Goes To War Over Newt Gingrich's Wife

[brooklynite]

Business Insider:

With just days to go before South Carolina's First In South Republican primary, the war over who should be the not-Mitt Romney candidate has gone completely nuclear.

Desperate to settle on one conservative alternative, Religious Right leaders backing Rick Santorum and those backing Newt Gingrich are now resorting to vicious attacks against what have long been seen as off-limits targets in presidential campaigns — the candidates' wives.

Influential evangelical leader James Dobson set off the fireworks at this weekend's Christian Right summit, giving a speech that lavished praise on Karen Santorum and asked whether Americans really wanted Callista Gingrich — "a woman who was a man's mistress for eight years" — as their First Lady, according to sources who attended the meeting.

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Needless to say, the Texas summit did little to unite the Christian Right. On Sunday, the day following the conference, reports began circulating about Karen Santorum's six-year love affair with a Pittsburgh obsetrician and abortion provider 40 years her senior. (The Santorum campaign has yet to comment on the story.)

Peanuts, Popcorn, Cracker Jack!



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[Blue Owl]

1. Fuck the "War on Christmas"

This is way better -- pass that popcorn!

[madmom]

2. Love these holier than thou family values people

[tabatha]

3. LOL - now wonder what ads the superpacs will create.

This is so effing funny.

[rurallib]

4. Oh Boy! A "My God is bigger than your God" fight

Boy, I hope this one will be televised.
Break out the TV trays, you won't want to miss a minute.

[movonne]

5. Oh! this is a good thing....lets see how christian the christian right are...

[mike_c]

6. this is the best clown show repubs have put on in YEARS....

I mean, CLUE-- it's only January and they're already making McCain/Palin look serious by comparison!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. Sexist pigs. What about the fact that Newt stuck his fat p**** inside his mistress now wife?

Or do evangelicals think that part is just dandy, and it's just the woman that's guilty?

The only good thing I've heard about evangelicals lately is that their funds are drying up. People are not as willing to support these a-holes in grand style any longer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Newt "learned his lessons"

and has repented and, of course, everything should be forgiven!

Don't forget: IOKIYAR!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

9. He learned his lessons from evangelical preachers, who are about the most amoral a-holes nt

[Jim Lane]

21. Your headline is misleading. You put "mistress" in the singular instead of plural.

He cheated on his first wife with a mistress who became his second wife, then he cheated on her with a mistress who became his third (and current wife). That's not even counting the unknown number of mistresses he had whom he never married.

I'm sure a lot of evangelicals think all this is much less than dandy, but it's still better than having a president who's -- you know -- food stamps and all that.

[BR_Parkway]

22. I think you meant "black" - that's really their most serious problem with him after

all.

Well, that and the fact that they've told their flocks for so long that ANY Democrat is basically the anti-christ.

[Jim Lane]

23. Oh, no no no, the "food stamps" line has absolutely NOTHING to do with Obama being black.

So Newt would tell you, and he'd be backed up by plenty of white South Carolina Republicans, most of whom have black friends and don't have a racist bone in their bodies.

We need a "dog whistle" smilie.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

24. So true! nt

[southernyankeebelle]

10. Forget Peanuts, Popcorn and Cracker Jacks. Just bring the tv into the kitchen and

serve a buffet style dinner. You could have the main course and dessert all at one setting. These nutjobs are sure entertaining.

[msongs]

11. and here I thought Jesus had lady friends of dubious reputation lol nt

[TlalocW]

12. Dayum! Dobson just stabbed Newt in the back!

Newt went on Dobson's radio show (was it with Dobson himself or some other interviewer?) and tried to do the whole I did wrong, but God has forgiven me schtick that normally evangelicals love. Either Jimmy didn't buy it, or Newt did something to piss him off.

TlalocW

[Scuba]

13. I love the smell of Republican implosion in the morning.

[sce56]

14. As I have always said they have the wrong mascot for the GOP! With apologies to Hippos!

They are just a bunch of hypocrites!

[DCBob]

15. What a bunch of losers.

Hard to believe anyone would even consider voting for any of these pathetic excuses for Presidential candidates.

[A Simple Game]

20. Now we know why "none of the above" is not on the ballot.

My guess? It would get at least 50 percent.

[lindysalsagal]

16. Oh, PLEASE, Oh, PLEASE,Oh, PLEASE,Oh, PLEASE,Oh, PLEASE,Oh, PLEASE,Oh, PLEASE,Oh, PLEASE,

Make it true that Karen Santorum had a six-year love affair with a Pittsburgh obsetrician and abortion provider 40 years her senior.

I'll be good all year, I promise!

[denem]

18. You promise? West Virginia will send enough coal

for very stocking you own.

[tanyev]

19. I don't think anyone is questioning that she was involved with him.

However, both of them were single at the time, so describing it as an "affair" is not quite accurate.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/mrs-santorum-s-abortion-doctor-boyfriend.html

[lindysalsagal]

17. The fun part is they already threw all they had at Obama the last time!

Their sludge buckets are all but empty.

Personally, I have no problem with the "First Lady" being a lying, conniving mistress, as long as her husband is a good president.

But of course, there's no chance of Newt becoming that.

[MineralMan]

25. A buncha horny rabbits those Republicans are.

We're gonna need a scorecard on this before the primaries are over, I think.

[hallowell]

26. yesterday

was the best news day ever. Ron Paul must have sat back and laughed. Strange that Santorum cannot capitalize