I am desperately trying to understand something here.
The Republican Party has always made it clear that its primary platform is family values. And yet Newt Gingrich is winning primaries? Newt Gingrich is a viable candidate? Really? Are the voters that desperate for someone who can debate President Obama? Do any of you voters realize that this isn't Political Idol and that it takes much more than a smooth debater to win the White House? George W. Bush could barely string a sentence together...he won. Did you forget?
Gingrich abandoned the "til death do us part' vow and added a caveat for deathly illnesses that he applied to not just one but two of his wives. He's slept with so many staffers that his children should demand a maternity test. Never mind this king of hypocrites did this while going after Bill Clinton for getting a little ooh la la à la Lewinsky. Is selective memory at play here?
There is this big to-do about Romney showing his tax forms, which is just as ridiculous and banal as the entire Birther movement, not to mention invasive. But you are just fine with Gingrich? In this great wave of Republican idealism that involves an anti-establishment, beam-me-up-Reagan mentality, South Carolina voters respond by voting for a bloated whore of a person who has no problem leaving deathly ill spouses and is so entrenched that he has a root system which competes with oak trees? Really?
Oh, and on a side note, I grew up during the Reagan years and this romanticism that has suddenly sprung up is incredibly unwarranted.
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