Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 25, 2012

Hey, what am I doing here?? I’m looking for January 24!! And instead I’m the first for the 25th!? that came out wrong somehow.

See you somewhat later…

Six years? That is one patient adulteress.

And why was my comment DELETED !! !!

Oh, good, my original comment was reinstated. Do weird things like this happen all the time at this time of day?

Let him without sin cast the……

If Santorum were to actually say that in front of Gingrich, I would actually consider voting for him. Not for long, but I’d consider it.

This stuff matters. The Republicans tortured the American People endlessly with nonsense about Monica-Gate. For any of them to now cry foul is actually funny to me.

Sneaker, oops, Speaker Gingrich, weren’t you committing adultery at the same time you were leading an attempt to carry out an impeachment conviction on President Clinton for something short of full-bore relations with Ms Lewinsky? I mean you can hardly call Clinton’s escapade ADULTery if she wasn’t yet an ADULT, can you? To quote RinaFarina above: “[T]hat came out wrong somehow.”

Somebody HAD to go there; It might as well be Garry.So let’s say it:“Do the American People really want a WHORE for First Lady?

 . . . laff like hyenas . . . . . . at the Royal Hyenas!

If Mike Doonesbury could turn Republican, could B.D. actually be considering turning into a Democrat? The current crop of R’s would do it for any sane person.

How open is open?

Maybe the religious reich will be pacified with Newt’s and Callista’s “repentance”, and Newt will be our next President.

It would make for a fun visit if Sarkozy comes to visit…

Does it really matter who they are sleeping with when they all whore for the banks and big corporations?

Hey, if it’s good enough for England and Prince Charles………..

Serial polygamy is hardly a crime in this country, even among the most self-righteous. We might as well change the vows to “till incompatibility do us part.” But there is still a world of difference between ending a marriage and lying to and cheating on your “other half” for years on end. Most people don’t think NG is a moral reprobate even for his lying and cheating, it is the rank hypocrisy of holding himself up as the standard bearer for “traditional Christian family values.” Does he claim repentance and remorse? Does he still live and sleep with the woman? Isn’t that like claiming repentance and remorse for being a thief, but keeping all the stolen goods? But what is past, is past, and I am willing to let bygones by bygones. Nevertheless, one ought to consider a man’s character or lack thereof in choosing a president, and as Patrick Henry said, “I have no means to judge of the future except by the past.” The proper image for the US is Charlie Brown, wanting to kick that football. And the GOP seems perpetually to be Lucy, always promising that THIS time, they won’t pull the ball away.

I just came across this piece on NG on a pro-Mitt website. This comment on him from his fellow Republicans is rather nastier than I expected:

http://americaneedsmitt.com/blog/tag/jackie-gingrich/

Why do they keep calling Gingrich “Mr. Speaker”? It’s a job he held for a couple years more than a decade ago (and one he had to resign to avoid being sacked by his own party). It’s like calling William Shatner “Captain Kirk” (which, I admit, some people still do… but do you want to trust those people to pick our next President?)

I asked my wife for an open marriage too. Then she hit me upside my head wit that frying pan. I got her message loud and clear.

Why don’t we just take Gingrich’s extra-curricular activities off the table? Gingrich’s sexual history is, in my mind at least, an irrelevance – his other activities in and out of public office show me his basic unsuitability. Frankly, how anyone can imagine Gingrich as President of the United States and not get creeped-out is beyond my comprehension.`However, I would like to see Newt as the Republican candidate – for reasons I suspect most can guess.

Does Hedley have any hair under that hat? Sideburns is all I’ve ever seen.

HOw come the Grinch never wrote the sequel to 1945? he had 15 years. It wasn’t bad alternate history. Another broken promise.

OK: I try to avoid concerning myself with who is doing whom and how…sexually. I like seeing and hearing Gingrich hung out to dry, not because of his sex life, but because of his demands of his supporters that they give HIM a free pass(!) but hold their mutual enemies to a (perhaps) higher standard.

He’s not very smart, but he is clever…like a pickpocket. I opine that Ging has done evil, knowingly and often, and with his lengthy study and training in public entertainment, it is certainly with forethought.

But of course he is a perfect candidate for people with no real moral center of their own.Self-deluded part-time Christians, for instance. No real christian would attack him IF he were remorseful, but that’s beyond his mental capabilities. He doesn’t really know what he’s doing at all, and of course…if you EVER read the Book, you’ll know that no REAL Christian could possibly be involved in politics. Period. Read the Book sometime, especially the life of Jesus. Figure it out. Of course if you do, you’ll know which side you are REALLY on…and why they lie so much. It’s what their Founder ids as was all about…

And yes, I’m NOT a Christian. I did read the Book a few times, tried it out. Too tough for me. It was a LOT easier to be a Green Beret than to be a Christian. And yes, I have been ‘into’ politics for a long time. Wish I were strong enough to be a Christian…

Well, even allowing the slim chance that Gingrich gets elected, Callista Bisek will never be the first lady.

@puddleglum1066Only Hedley refers to him as “speaker” Gingrich. It the same thing that Fox News does when they still refer to Sarah Palin as “governor”. Tacking expired titles onto those who no longer deserve them. I try not to listen to Fox, but some programs used to refuse to refer to President Obama as “president”. Only “Mr. Obama”.

Yes, they do, apparently! After all, “Old Hickory’s” wife had a,reputedly (not by me), less than virtuous background and voters at the time elected him to the Presidency!

Wonderful way to break it down Mr. Trudeau. Whenever Mr. Gingrich doesn’t want to address something he blames others instead of looking in the mirror and confronting his shortcomings/

“How dare you bring up my despicable behavior with a slut that I married after a six year affair, while I preach to others about family values. How dare you, sir!”

Susan, Susan, Susan, babygirl! It looks like the SPIT has hit the fan!

“…that type is above atonement.” Or below.

“Reminds me of the David and Bathsheba story in the Bible.Do you think that Newt the Coot and his current squeeze can produce another Solomon?I sure as hell don’t!” First Kings 11: ¶ 1King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Phoenician, and Hittite women, 2from the nations of which the Lord had said to the Israelites, “None of you shall join them and none of them shall join you, lest they turn your heart away to follow their gods.” Such Solomon clung to and loved. 3He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned his heart away. 4In his old age, his wives turned away Solomon’s heart after other gods, and he was not as wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God as his father David had been. 5Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Phoenicians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ¶ 6Solomon did what was displeasing to the Lord and did not remain loyal to the Lord like his father David. 7At that time, Solomon built a shrine for Chemosh the abomination of Moab on the hill near Jerusalem, and one for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites. 8And he did the same for all his foreign wives who offered and sacrificed to their gods. ¶ 9The Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice 10and had commanded him about this matter, not to follow other gods; he did not obey what the Lord had commanded. —Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (eds.), THE JEWISH STUDY BIBLE, Jewish Publication Society, (1999) Tanakh Translation (of ancient Hebrew text), (New York: Oxford University Press © 2004), pp 697-98.

The rest of the world has a more intelligent, and actually, more moral, code than the hypocrites in “Puritan America”. Maintain our marriage, your kids, and responsibilities, AND maintain your mistress(es) on the side, in private. It’s better to have a leader who screws every woman in the country (if consenting!) than to be a fraud and screw the people and the nation.

If a guy is getting on the side what he can’t get at home, but still “takes care of business” at home, he shows management skills far above those required to start two senseless, horrible, deadly, wars, just to boost his ego!!

Only idiots will worry about “private matters” when it is the PUBLIC matters that are FAR MORE IMMORAL!!

“If a guy is getting on the side what he can’t get at home …”. Oh — JFK, FDR, Ike, others, and MANY Congresspersons, aside — for a President, Congresspersons, who’re getting at home what they, for moral reasons, choose not to get “on the side”.

It’s not the adultery per se, it’s the blatant hypocrisy (and malignancy) of the man. Along with the already-mentioned double standard of trying to impeach Clinton for improper sexual relations while gleefully carrying on an affair of his own of much longer standing, there is also the fact that he is setting himself as the master moral arbitrator. Not content to simply harangue people on what is “right” (without bothering to adhere to those standards himself), he wants to use the power of government to back up his point of view.

Makes me fervently thankful I’m a Canadian.

Let’s see Roland ask Santorum a question about Google. :)

Somewhere I got an email that said the Gingrich “family values” consist of sending the children of the first wife to deny the allegations that the second wife is levelling against the third wife. That’s keeping it all in the family!!

Newt had to wait until wife #2 was ill telling her that he was divorcing her.