Newt’s Southern Strategy
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: January 20, 2012
“Up
with Newt. Down with dignity. That’s the way it goes.
“Newt
Gingrich is surging in South Carolina and has a good chance to win that state’s
primary on Saturday. But, as he rises, so grows the dark shadow that he casts
over his party and the grievous damage he does to its chances of unseating
President Obama.”
Posted
at 02:01 PM ET, 01/20/2012
Grandiose? Look at yourself, Rick Santorum.
Commentators are giving Rick Santorum a
lot of attention for insisting on Thursday night thatRepublicans
didn’t need a “grandiose” leader like Newt Gingrich, or a
flip-flopper like Mitt Romney…
…”Speaking
in front of a banner that read, “PersonhoodUSA,” Santorum’s point, of course,
wasn’t biological — it was theological. He was not merely saying that sperm
uniting with egg satisfies some technical definition of basic life; he was
arguing that it creates a human with a soul and moral rights identical to those
any of us have. And while science tells us when the brain forms and when it
begins to function — long past conception — science has not been able to
establish whether or when a soul enters any collection of cells.
Santorum’s
declaration arrogantly dismissed those who — perfectly reasonably — hold a
different view on the question of when human life meaningfully begins, for
which there is no definitive answer, and it denigrated those who aren’t sure.
It also abused the crucial notion that knowledge can be distinguished from
belief. In that, it was subversive to the very underpinnings of modern society,
which relies on the rational accumulation and application of hard evidence to
do everything from launching space shuttles to designing factories that pump
outinexpensive
sweater vests…”
Cassi Creek:
From my vantage point, what, where, and to some extent when
and with whom Gingrich chooses to engage in sexual activity is of relative
little concern to me. Unfortunately, Gingrich and supporters are hell-bent upon
interfering in my sexual activities and freedom. The Christian Right’s insistence
upon forcing their religion and its fundamentalist restrictions onto everyone
else is not acceptable. Their continual
cries of “anti-Christian persecution” directed at those who prefer not to be
forced into a theocracy driven by the American equivalent of the Taliban are
increasingly growing old and have always been a blatant lie designed to stir up
members and membership, in consequence, bringing in large amounts of revenue to
the ruling fathers (there are no founding mothers – only founding breeding
stock) who then funnel portions into campaign funding for the teavangelist
elect. (Diagram that sentence if you
can)
The voter base Gingrich is trying to stir up is the remnant
of the populace who fought tooth and nail for segregation and against the Civil
Rights laws of the 60s. These are the
same good souls who marched in white robes and hoods in effort to intimidate
black citizens and whites who actually understood that Christianity, if
practiced accurately and honestly, had to support equal rights and
opportunity. No one wants to admit in public that the
Southern Baptist church was established to support the South’s continued
demands for legal slavery; just as they prefer not to admit that women are
excluded from the priesthood (call it what you will) and are commanded to be
subservient to men. I see little to
distinguish the fundamentalism of America from that of Islamic states beyond
the language used and the name on the sacred book.
We've left the era of divine right rulers behind and I have
no interest in restoring that type of government to the hypocrites of the
teavangelist party. If the ex-wife disclosure had taken place on Fox News in referent
to a Democratic candidate the hate mongers who cheered Gingrich on would still
be applauding Fox News actions in attacking “immorality and hypocrisy in the Godless,
socialist, Democrats.”
The southern base is solidly in the Gingrich camp because
he plays to the residual, ingrained from birth racism that exists still in
those states. Santorum tags along using
the linked fundamentalist dogma that is used to prevent women receiving reproductive
freedom at all levels. The various
evangelicals will pair with anyone sharing their dogma about sexual
freedom. Santorum, if he hangs around
long enough, will discover that his Roman Catholicism is regarded by the
teavangelists to be just as much of a cult as is Mormonism.
The primaries are underway and the 2012 white sales are
doing a booming volume in white sheets and robes.
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