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Sedatives for the Christian right

Posted on | March 9, 2007 | Comments Off

This just in from CNN:

“Former House speaker and potential presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has confessed, telling conservative Christian leader James Dobson that he was cheating on his wife at around the same time the House was impeaching President Bill Clinton over his White House affair with Monica Lewinsky.

But Gingrich said that didn’t make him a hypocrite, because Clinton was impeached not for the affair, but for lying about it.”

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/09/gingrich.schneider/index.html

You should really read the article. All sorts of warm bullshit…and with no-one to throw cold water on it. Thsi is what the last part of the article says: “So, will religious voters forgive Gingrich? Dobson seemed inclined to think so. […] Critics are likely to call the lot of them hypocrites, however, noting that religious conservatives make allowances for people they agree with politically, like Gingrich, but not for Giuliani or Clinton.”

So how does one figure they can sleep at night. They will castigate the progressives but cheerfully “forgive” their bastard co-fundamentalists when they perform the same deed.

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