Posted by
Bert Chapman on Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:49:43 PM
While Newt Gingrich is intellectually brilliant, he is morally flawed and to undisciplined to be an effective President. Since his second wife Marianne has asserted that he wanted an "open marriage" not long after he criticized Bill Clinton for his dalliances with Monica Lewinsky, Gingrich reveals himself to be no different than Clinton. If a person violates their marital vows they are highly likely to violate their business or political promises. While the President is not expected to be a saint, he or she must have enough integrity to be politically and morally credible in this country and internationally. Newt Gingrich's conservative colleagues in the House revolted against his unstable leadership as Speaker after only two terms because he was so undisciplined in his leadership. Do we want to nominate as our presidential candidate a man who is personally undisciplined and an adulterer? An extremely troubling aspect of his response to John King's opening question in tonight's CNN debate, was when he referred to Marianne as "an ex-wife." This is a horribly impersonal and dehumanizing response since he refers to her as a commodity instead of a person. Since just over half of the electorate is female, that sends a horrible signal of our values and priorities as conservatives to voters who are not necessarily conservative but may be receptive to our message as we campaign against the egregiously incompetent and spendthrift Barack Obama.
While I've enjoyed Gingrich's rhetorical assaults against the liberal media, the fact of the matter is he brought the media's assaults on him with his undisciplined and immoral behavior in his earlier marriages. Gingrich also drastically overstates his role in Reagan Administration policy successes as Romney pointed out by Gingrich's being mentioned only once in Reagan's diary. Moral decline is a key problem facing our country and, while I believe in forgiveness, I do not believe Newt Gingrich will be a morally credible candidate for Republicans this fall. For all the immoral policies Barack Obama has pursued, such as ending don't ask, don't tell in the military, zealously promoting abortion, and favoring anti-Christian policies in his health care legislation, he is faithful to his wife and symbolizes family stability compared with Gingrich.
On Saturday, South Carolina Republican voters need to reject their renewed seduction by gigolo Newt Gingrich and recognize that only Mitt Romney, despite his unfortunate reticence to release his tax returns, has the intellectual substance and moral character to be a credible and effective candidate for our party against the Obama class warfare machine while also serving as an exemplar of moral integrity in his personal life who will make us proud as a nation and be President who encourages us to be our best as individuals and a nation.