for some reason I haven't realized that Newt Gingrich is a religionist

he was on Wash. Journal this a.m. talking his usual crap. what we have heard two trillion times.

and he opened by saying he had been to an affair in Va. about the first landing in Va.

he said that the first thing the people did was erect a cross. (said cross was the subject of the affair)

I don't know if that was the first thing they did. they would have to get their land legs back and take a pee, I would think.

anyway, Newt at a religious affair surprises me. but then I seldom pay attention to what he says.

be whatever the moment requires.

nt

most often found under damp, slimy rocks.

He really thinks he has a shot.

all coming from a base that is shrinking by the day.

I'd like to say there ain't no way, but you never know.

When he officially announces his candidacy, I expect an uncomfortably large percentage of the electorate to respond with, "Well, now, here's a fresh new face!!"

He's whatever he thinks will get him the most money.

It's the only way the base will support him. He's learned from McCain's mistake. He recently converted to Catholicism.

Holding to the base.

He knows language is a mechanism of control and that his dear GOP has pandered to the religious right and so he's now got to incorporate some religious references into his shtick.

He's come back into the media spotlight over the past few months, probably because the GOP has been floundering and he wants to shape some new arguments to rally the troops. That's how he has seemed to me-- testing, testing, testing. Seeking key phrases or themes to update the GOP propaganda effort.


Here's a link to his famous 1996 GOPAC Memo on "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" with the word lists to help Republicans talk about themselves and their opponents.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

That annuls his previous marriages/affairs. I guess he thinks this clears him from criticism for past indiscretions in the presidential run he's imagining for himself.

This guy is a rattlesnake. Talk about Specter's political expediency! Gingrich is on another level.

Erecting the cross was not the first activity the colonists did. The first activity was a trial of John Smith for mutiny (he was acquited).

As for the cross, well, it was only there because Richard Hakluyt, who was extremely rich, was one of the major organizers of the expedition and insisted on sending it and a chaplain (Rev Hunt, who had just lost his congregation due to allegations of having an affair).

So, this was a case where it was forced down, not a case of people seeking religious freedom or anything like that. Forced, corporate sponsored religion, definitely something Gingrich's crowd would love to have happen.

The second colony of 1607 (up in Maine) did not have such a religious sponsor and thus did not have the cross.

nt

recast himself as a Godly man and blble-believing Catholic, having recently converted. It's all claptrap. A leopard can't change its spots.

Which one of his wives converted him? Or was it maybe the lawyers who defended him for ethics violations? Or perhaps the Christian soldiers from whom he borrowed the money to pay his fine? I think he should take a permanent vow of silence. And stay out of politics as a service to God & country.

He usually has affairs with younger women who work for him.