Here’s a recent article quoting the Newtster Newt Gingrich as he went campaigning for the 2012 Presidential Election:
“I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9,” Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. “I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they’re my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”
I don’t quite get the message. Is Newt Gingrich suggesting that the radical Islamists and secular atheists are teaming up to take over America? Now why Gingrich thinks atheists will join Allah-following Islamists in taking over America, well that’s just weird out of the box thinking that only the Newt can do. 7-11′s, gas stations and Starbucks aside, I just don’t see the Islamist-Atheist demographic increasing their numbers to the point of taking over the country. Is there some conspiracy whereby they’re going to inter-marry and give birth to little Islamic-Atheists? Could such a person even exist outside Salman Rushdie? And if you follow Gingrich’s thinking, does being Islamic or an atheist automatically preclude you from being an American? At least he showed a little restraint in his flamboyant commentary; he didn’t throw homosexuals into the mix but then again he probably assumes all atheists to be homosexual!
Frankly, hasn’t Gingrich read the recent census reports regarding the rise of the Hispanic population within the US mainland? Really, if you’re Protestant your biggest fear should be being swamped by the waves of Latino Catholic immigrants and not by some unholy alliance between radical Islamists and Atheists. Besides, Atheists adopting Sharia law, that will be a cold day in hell, right?
Seems this hyperbolic insight flowed as Newt Gingrich was addressing CornerStone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals. You might recall Hagee’s endorsement of then-presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 being plagued by instant controversy. McCain rejected the endorsement because of comments Hagee had made regarding the Holocaust, claims that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God’s will by hastening the return of the Jews to Israel, all of course in accordance with biblical prophecy. What crapola! Hitler as an instrument of god! Doesn’t matter; Republicans love to pander to this nutty crowd!
Needless to say, the Newt Gingrich was strangely quiet about his own martial indiscretions and numerous divorces that have made his appeal to the Bible Belt, well just a little less than appealing. His extra-marital affairs during the cancer illness of his first ex-wife were particularly insensitive and smarmy to many onlookers so it remains to be seen if he can attract a following by pandering to the Bible-Belt.
In his own defense I love this quote from the Newtster: “There’s no question at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.” So that’s what causes infidelity: working too hard for one’s country? Damn it, with all of the ongoing divorce there must be a lot of patriots out there in the hinterlands. Well, something was hard but not necessarily the work and how you can say this with a straight face is beyond me. In any case, Gingrich will convert them all even if it means taking on the unholy alliance of Islamic-Atheist Un-Americans!
That said, with the Newt clearly on his game and with Donald Trump sounding more and more like a closet Birther, this presidential campaign has all the earmarks of being just as entertaining as the last one! And here’s one prediction you can bank on, as the economy goes so does Obama chances for re-election!
