The Religious Right hates Mitt Romney. We all know this. They do not want to vote for him under any circumstances. The trouble is that the “family values” wingnut crowd can’t seem to settle on which other primary candidate they hate the least — Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich? So some of them are digging their heels in for Santorum, others for Gingrich, and the infighting between the two camps is getting nasty:
Desperate to settle on one conservative alternative, Religious Right leaders backing Rick Santorum and those backing Newt Gingrich are now resorting to vicious attacks against what have long been seen as off-limits targets in presidential campaigns — the candidates’ wives.
Influential evangelical leader James Dobson set off the fireworks at this weekend’s Christian Right summit, giving a speech that lavished praise on Karen Santorum and asked whether Americans really wanted Callista Gingrich — “a woman who was a man’s mistress for eight years” — as their First Lady, according to sources who attended the meeting.
Translation: Daddy D called Callista Gingrich a whore.
One source described Dobson’s tone as “angry,” and said it seemed like Dobson was blaming Callista Gingrich for the couples’ affair, which began while the former House Speaker was still married to his second wife (this is Callista Gingrich’s first marriage).
“It was clear that, to him, the villian in this story is Callista Gingrich,” the source said.
Well, of course! In the fundamentalist Christian worldview, men are never responsible for their own behavior, which means Callista Gingrich must just be a vile temptress. Of course, that also means Newt’s second wife was also a vile temptress, as she lulled Newt into a sensual stupor, causing him to leave the bedside of his first wife, who was fighting cancer. Or maybe the problem is Newt?
The piece goes on to point out that the stories of Karen Santorum’s years-long love affair with An Abortion Doctor started circulating just after the big Religious Right confab in Texas where they were supposed to be deciding who to support, as a united front.
So basically, the religious conservative conversation has devolved to “slut slut slut slut slut!” and James Dobson started it. It’s nice to see them being a little more honest about their true beliefs.
Dobson stirring up trouble and using an angry tone. Shocking! I wasn’t aware he was capable of anything else…
Callista may be a s**t, but the real w***e in this story is Dobson, who rakes in millions of dollars a year talking about gay sex.
This is awesome to watch. Seeing the Religious Reich beginning to crack and fracture just makes me smile… it also makes me wanna yell ‘JUST IMPLODE ALREADY!!’ at the screen. Ah, good times. :)
but aren’t they s***s? Let’s not lose sight of the facts here.
walks like a s**t, talks like a s**t, looks like a highly over plasticized life sized sex toy with glass eyes and Kelly Bundy platinum blond hair and more jewlery than many a minor Grand Duchess, then yeah, its probably a s**t.
But..
Michael is right…if she is a s**t, Bobson is a w***e
And Newt…well…serial whoremonger and repeat emotional belittler of women and self obcessed philanderer….YEAH, blame the woman…She MADE him get that erection! She MADE him leave a woman (oops, women) for other women! HELL, she all but GAVE HIM THE APPLE IN THE GARDEN! LOL LOL LOL
And THIS is who most on the right would rather have as an example than a man with one happy marriage and two charming daughters!
PS What the HELL kind of daughters has Newt spawned? Eeeek.
I don’t know why the Religious Right is so upset with Mrs. Gingrich III. Didn’t Jesus sit down and eat with prostitutes? Didn’t Jesus halt the stoning of a woman accused of adultary? Shouldn’t they be Christlike and love and accept Mrs. Gingrich? I guess hypocrisy knows no boundaries with these morons.
Also, let us not forget what the 2012 election really means to Christianists. This is a battle to preserve white patriarchal privilege, nothing less. When the Tea Baggers say “We need to take our country back!” they really mean “We need to take our country back to the good old days when women and darkies knew their place and a white man’s place was to rule over them benevolently.”
This much can be said for the RRRRRW; they make hilarious entertainment when we forget the unpleasant things they’d like to do to us.
Emma, help me out here. What is RRRRRW?
I’ll give it a shot, though:
Rabidly Radical Rancid Religious Right Wing (or Whackjobs)
(Even if I didn’t get it right, how far wrong could I possibly be?)
The Nut-wingers want to exert their civil rights to elect the the first woman ever, to be elected based upon her ability to suck her boyfriend’s dick, for 8 years, while he was married! That alone makes her a great first w***e!. They get to elect the “First w***e”.
Richard, usually it means Religious Right Right Right Right Wing but I like your version better. Especially if it includes the word “ridiculous”.