The Newtering of Traditional Family Values

65% of voters who participated in the South Carolina Primary yesterday were identified as Evangelical Christians, social conservatives who comprise a significant slice of the Republican Party. For these voters, marriage, including what kind, and family takes precedence over all other issues and many of these voters will persistently vote against their own economic interests to support a candidate who espouses those values. With Newt Gingrich's victory yesterday, it's now crystal clear the candidate need not adhere to those values, just repeat them in an endless loop while lobbing bombs at anyone who has the duty and temerity to question the hypocrisy of his words and deeds.

A person close to me was diagnosed with Leukemia more than a decade ago. She learned during an initial hospitalization, that her husband was carrying on an affair, while she was trying to cope with the scariest news of her life. The marriage ended shortly after, and I instantly cut this man, who I had known for years, out of my life, and never spoke to him again. Every marriage has its problems and, sometimes, divorce is the only viable option, but you don't leave a spouse alone in a hospital, contemplating a cancer diagnosis, to cavort with someone else. It's sick, it's inhuman and Newt Gingrich has done this, not once, but twice, with 2 different wives.

Newt Gingrich's life stands in direct opposition to the values, not just of social conservatives, but most Americans. He managed the Impeachment proceedings of a President who lied about an adulterous relationship, as he was carrying on his own and railing about the President's depraved morality. He shut down the Government, admitting later, in part, because of a personal snub, throwing Washington into chaos. 84 ethics violations were charged against Newt Gingrich, as Speaker of the House, marking the first, and only time, in the history of the United States a House Speaker was reprimanded and, later fined, for ethics violations. His own party was so disgusted with unethical, tyrannical behavior THEY forced him out as Speaker.

In the years since he left Congress in shame, he setup shop in Washington and became a creature of beltway cronyism, claiming to be a Historian, or analytical advice provider when he was lobbying for special interests, particularly Freddie MAC and the health insurance industry. Gingrich has a record going back years supporting an Individual Mandate, yet lies and denies what still appears on his Health Care Initiatives web site, supporting that mandate. Gingrich has made millions saying one thing while lobbying for the only interest which ever mattered....himself!

If Newt Gingrich were a Democrat, the Republican Party would have sentenced him to Life at Rikers Island. But Newt is a smug, bomb-throwing thug who takes glee in inflicting pain, be it women, the children he left behind, the Congress he shamed and the current President he wishes, not to bloody, but to knock out!

Social conservatives are intent on joining in an unholy alliance with the Devil, because this election has nothing to do with family values and everything to do with winning with a candidate who has spent a lifetime mocking them and everything they profess to believe!

America can never be defined by Newtered values. We are so much better than this and our humanity, decency, ethics and integrity must prevail!