By Douglas V. Gibbs
All of the Republican Candidates are flawed. That is a fact. Such is the reality of life. Has there ever been a perfect politician?
George Washington had no political experience, Grover Cleveland had a child out of wedlock, Lincoln was raised in poverty, Reagan had once been a democrat, Jefferson was quicker to the military trigger than most, Harding had his fingerprints all over big oil, Madison was thought to be too weak to be president, John Adams was considered unelectible, and Andrew Jackson was thought to have policies that were too radical.
Sound anything like the group right now?
Fine, Newt Gingrich has a lot of personal baggage. The sensationalism by the media regarding his baggage, of course, has been taken way out of context. For example, the accusation that he served his wife with divorce papers while she was dying of cancer in the hospital is completely full of crap. First of all, she was in the hospital for a benign tumor. Second, she served him with divorce papers, and she did so months before the hospital stay. Newt is obviously no saint, but is that reason enough not to trust him as President?
Newt also made a lot of money running a consulting firm post-political life. That shows he's a successful man. So why is that an argument against him?
President Obama is a liberal ideologue that has brought this nation to the precipice of destruction. He told us in 2008 that he wanted to transform America into something else. He wants to lead us down the same path that is destroying Europe. Liberalism, socialism, or whatever you want to call it, leads to financial disaster every time it is tried. He is trying to turn us into the failure that is Europe, while appeasing the enemies of this nation on the National Security front. Obama has no plans on trying to do anything to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. We need a president willing to tackle these issues, but instead we are too busy complaining about their personal life matters. I get it, their character is being judged, but it's not like Newt Gingrich spent twenty years in a church led by a pastor that hates America and says so in his sermons, and it is not like Newt hung out with a known terrorist like Obama did with Bill Ayers.
Sure, none of these candidates are perfect, but any of them beats the snot out of Obama, and would be much less dangerous than the liberal ideologue that is in the White House right now.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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