God, government and Gingrich

[rodeodance]

oh, i think if he talks of God, he might have a good chance of making a comeback. He is visiting NH and OH--but says not for poliitcal reasons. te he!!



http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18706


God, government and Gingrich

Bill Berkowitz - WorkingForChange

03.11.05 - "You know what that tells you? It tells you were terrible the year before." -- Pitcher Rick Sutcliffe, 1992, the year he won the Comeback Player of the Year award.

Newt Gingrich, who is firmly embedded on the New York Times bestseller list with his new book Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract With America, is both selling books and seeing if people will buy a future for him in electoral politics. Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House and the leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution, was the architect (along with PR man Frank Luntz) of the Contract With America -- a document often referred to as the "Contract On America," with its series of slash and burn proposals. Will the American people buy his latest Contract and will it lead to the launch of a full-blown political comeback?

Americans love comebacks; they are as American as apple pie, chow mien, and hip-hop. Movie stars make comebacks -- think John Travolta in Pulp Fiction; books make comebacks -- the novelist Henry Roth wrote Call it Sleep in 1934, but it didn't land on the bestseller list until it was reissued in 1964; and most professional sports give out annual Comeback Player of the Year awards. If a player that may have suffered a season-ending injury or illness the year before, or just plain had a lousy year, and subsequently manages to recover the magic, then he/she becomes a worthy Comeback Player of the Year candidate.

Political comebacks are a bit harder to find, especially if the politician has been forced to slink off the national stage. Once disgraced, most politicians are grateful to be allowed to ride easy into the sunset, rather than being sent to the slammer. In the twentieth century, Richard Nixon perfected the political comeback. If there were Political Comeback of the Year Awards, Nixon would have retired it by the time he died in 1994. His first comeback came while serving as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower when he went on television with wife Pat by his side and delivered his now famous/infamous "Checkers" speech, denying that he had abused a secret Republican slush fund..........



.....Gingrich's future political possibilities will hinge on more than the proposals in his latest book, his history of ethical lapses, smarmy comments, multiple affairs, and the abandonment of his wife while she had cancer. He did, after all, lead the Republican Revolution. Does he want to be back in the driver's seat? According to The Hill, Gingrich has scheduled "trips to New Hampshire and Iowa this spring, but not necessarily to launch a presidential campaign."......

[Inland]

1. Newt drinks rightie christian kool aid to be president.

In his new book, Newt says that the liberals want to prevent acknowledgement of the God that founded our country and comes out for ten commandments shit. Newt wouldn't have given two seconds to this sort of guff back when he was speaker.

Clearly he is positioning himself for the nomination by picking up memes that have been successfully by others--and to declare himself born again, which, as certain cokehead drunks can tell you, means that none of your past sinful conduct counts against you.

[tsuki]

2. He does not acknowledge God by his actions.

"Post the Ten Commandment on the Court House wall," he cries. "I want to see them when I discard my wives who has become too ill to be of further use. I want to see them as I abandon my children and leave them penniless. I want to see them when I get my annulment from the Catholic Church."