Give the fat, immoral, political FAILURE credit for trying! Looks to me like his "candidacy" is floundering before it has even started.
Newt Gingrich gets religionBy Jamil Smith
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Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:42 PM EDT
Now that skilled fundraiser Newt Gingrich has set up his semi-exploratory, help-me-make-up-my-mind-to-run-for-President fund (operators are standing by!), there is news today that he is seeking some shine from up on high. Mr. Gingrich knows his less-than-holy personal history (patriotic or not) may have the Christian right raising a side-eye at him in 2012, but he might get points for showing up on the schedule for a well-known pastor.
No, not Reverend Jeremiah Wright. You kidders. This isn't Carl Paladino-esque performance art.
(Wait, whose church is he speaking at? Seriously?)
Later this month, [Pastor John Hagee will] host former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a 2012 aspirant, at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. For the candidate and the pastor, the summit is a chance for two controversial figures to help each other back into the spotlight—though a Hagee spokesman says the pastor has no plans to endorse Gingrich.Mr. Hagee's name should ring a bell. He is the Texas megachurch pastor that, as Mother Jones reminds us today, senator John McCain couldn't escape fast enough in 2008 after news of his endorsement brought forth revelations (natch) that Hagee blamed gays for Hurricane Katrina and called Catholicism a "false cult" and a contributor to Hitler's anti-Semitism.
What candidate who actually wants to win seeks this guy out?