Newt and Rudy's Skeletons Could Fill Ten Closets

[AtomicKitten]

Newt and Rudy’s Skeletons Could Fill Ten Closets



While Newt Gingrich was rabidly leading the 1998 crucifixion of Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, the former House Speaker himself was dipping his libidinous joystick into the cookie jar of a young congressional aide behind wife #2's back. His mistress later became wife #3. The real question, as Bill Maher asked incredulously, is that "someone fucked Newt Gingrich?!" All kidding aside, the hypocrisy is mind-numbing. While he was gallivanting around DC ruining his wife's life, he was arrogantly justifying his own shameless indiscretions while holding the former president to a much higher standard. The old Republican do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do philosophy.

"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the Georgia Republican told Focus on the Family founder James Dobson in an interview last week.

Gingrich drew a line back then between his own philandering and that of Clinton by taking the moral high ground in defending America's rule of law: "I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials." Poppycock. He was an out-of-control, power-drunk Republican who ruthlessly and mercilessly castrated, and publicly chastised, his Democratic rival in an effort to shift the political landscape. And he succeeded. Clinton was impeached by the House that year, although he was acquitted by the Senate in '99.

So now Newt Gingrich, the same guy who broke the news to wife #1 that he was leaving her as she was recovering from cancer surgery, wants to be our next president, and he's trying to come clean in an effort to win the conservative vote. His strategy is to get the skeletons out, and out early. Between the affair, his multiple marriages and his embarrassing, scandalous fall from power, it's going to be an uphill climb. But at least we know that if Newt did become president, while he might very well continue his cheating ways, he swears he'd never lie about it under oath. Now that's integrity.

And then there's that other 2008 GOP hopeful, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Like Gingrich, Rudy's also got three marriages under his belt, but unlike Newt, he's been photographed in drag almost as much as Ru Paul. Is this Rudy's idea of showing America that he can be as good a woman president as Hillary? He also must deal with the question of his relationship with his two kids, with whom he's estranged. Seems they don't like the way Pa treated Ma (wife #2 Donna Hanover) as he was dumping her for wife #3, Judy Nathan (man, you need a scorecard to keep track of these guys!). Again as Maher joked, 'the only Republican in this race who respects marriage is the Mormon,' Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Wow, I'm dizzy. Newt and Rudy. Six marriages. Infidelity. Dressing in drag. Estrangement from the kids. And these are the "family values" folks?? Al Gore, are you listening???

So what will the Democrats do with all this dirt? Can you imagine what the Rovians would do if they had drag photos of Barack Obama? Jeez, just look what they did to John Kerry when he was caught windsurfing. You'd think the man had been caught writhing on a stripper's pole. Could you imagine how filthy dirty they'd play if they had a picture of John Edwards, the man they disrespectfully and childishly refer to as the "Breck Girl," wearing a dress? Or a shot of Hillary in a suit and tie? There'd be no stopping them. And ya know what? We need to fight fire with fire. The Democrats need to roll out these drag photos of Rudy everywhere. At every turn. And ask America if this is the sort of man they want protecting them in times of war and terror. Lord knows that's exactly what the Repugs would do to our candidate if they had the chance, just as they've done so often in the past. And while we're at it, let's keep reminding voters that between them, Newt and Rudy haven more marriages than the Gabor sisters. Not something to be proud of. And let's demand an answer from Rudy as to why his kids won't talk with him. Hell, in '04 they trashed our guy for windsurfing and being a war hero. We certainly can beat that.

http://ostroyreport.blogspot.com/2007/03/newt-and-rudys-skeletons-could-fill.html

[Stinky The Clown]

1. I take issue with but one phrase .... one word, really .....

Gingrich **tried** to castrate Clinton, but he never succeeded.

Love him or not, The Big Dog remains the biggest, baddest, most UNcastrated Dog in the pack.

I also take some tongue-in-cheek issue with the ten closets, idea.

Ten **each** maybe! :hi:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. More skeletons than a medical school supply company.

That's the RW lineup for '08.

[thoughtcrime1984]

3. This is why it's important that we rally around whoever our nominee is

We certainly don't want any of these Repub scumbags leading our nation.

[question everything]

4. Of course, he claims that the impeachment was about lying to

the Grand Jury. Yeah, right. Try telling this to the voters.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. "cheap grace"

Here's the thing that gets me.

These assholes have the sexual morals of jackrabbits on Cialis, but if they go to Dobson and "confess" and get "right with the Lord," it's all okay. The sin is forgiven as if it never happened, and all the evangefundicals will welcome them back with open arms.

I had never heard the term "cheap grace" before I read Bob Alteman's "Authoritarians" and John Dean's "Conservatives Without Conscience." But the term perfectly applies to this bullshit of Newt's: No matter what the sin, no matter how heinous, if you acknowledge it, put it in words, you can be forgiven and go on about your business.

Adultery, for crying out loud, is right up there in the ten big ones with murder and stealing and lying/perjury/bearing false witness. Bill Clinton got impeached, and Scooter Libby may go to jail over that last one. And you know how the wingers are going on about Clinton and "It wasn't the sex in the oval office, it was the lying!" especially now in light of Newtie's confession.

So, let me get this straight. :sarcasm: Clinton deserves to get nailed to a rightwing cross for lying and semi-adultery, both of which are prohibited in the ten commandments that the wingnuts want tattooed on everyone's forehead, forearm, or foreskin, take your pick. Bill Clinton goes on television and confesses, goes to his spiritual advisor and confesses, but that's not good enough for forgiveness. Not only does he stick with his wife, but she sticks with him, standing up for those oh-so-precious family values.

Now, ol' Newtie goes through three wives (so far) and treats at least two of 'em like dirt. Serves divorce papers on one while she's being treated for cancer, and has an affair with #3 while still married to #2 -- and while crucifying (pun intended) the aforementioned Mr. Clinton. Yet because Newt confesses to Dr. Dobson, Newt's sin is washed away. How does that happen??????

Oh, the hypocrisy!

It's not "cheap grace" at all, because it isn't "grace" at all. It's hypocrisy, pure and simple. If you're "right" with the "right," you can do whatever the fuck you want. And if you ain't "right" with the "right," you're screwed. (Or screwn, depending on the screwer.)

Karla Faye Tucker breaks the commandment about killing, but no amount of confession, redemption, rehabilitation, none of that worked to get her a reprieve. Because it's not the sin, it's the sinner!

Ted Haggard? Remember him? Guilty of moral lapses and gay sex, and it's gonna take years to heal him. Oh, contraire! /sic/ Heavy praying and he's healed straight in three weeks! (Because if he isn't, then the power of prayer ain't all it's cracked up to be, and he better be "straightened" out or "christian" folks might get the idea that gayness isn't such a sin after all.)

Same thing with Mary cheeeeeeeeney and Bay Buchanan. If they were, say, Christie Gephardt, they'd be filthy perverts, damned-to-hell for their "choice" of lifestyle. But it's okay for Mary cheeeeeeney to be gay, because. . .. because. . . . . because she's Mary cheeeeeeney!

There is no "cheap grace" for people like that because they don't need it. They are, in fact, without sin, no matter what they do. IOKIYAR. It's okay if you're a repuke. It's okay if you're one of the conservative elite. If you aren't, well, then you'll go to hell.

Hypocrites all. Lying sacks of shit all. Two-faced, double-standarded wastes of protoplasm. I hate them all.


Tansy Gold

[Joe Bacon]

7. Je$u$ forgives Republicans.

That's the bottom line. The GOP controls the churches and they have turned them into ¢hur¢he$ where the preachers bullshit about Je$u$ but they follow Ayn Rand and her $e¢ret.

[dekerivers1]

6. If Clinton is the nominee .....

family values and womanizing won't help.