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Feel The Family Values: Herman Cain’s Pain Is Newt Gingrich’s Gain
Herman Cain was never going to be the GOP’s candidate. The allegations of sexual harassment and his 13 year “relationship” with Ginger White simply sealed his fate faster than natural selection. However, it may not be for the reasons you think.
It wasn’t because Cain didn’t know that China had nuclear weapons. It wasn’t because Cain supports torture as a policy. (Actually, with the exception of Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman, all of the GOP’s hopefuls, including Gingrich endorsed torture during the Foreign Policy debate.)
Recent polling showed that Cain was going down, with Newt Gingrich emerging as the new flavor of the moment. It is very possible that Cain’s supporters were put off by the fact that Cain lacked the character to be the GOP’s candidate. Unlike Newt Gingrich, Cain lacked the strong leadership qualities that make it possible for a man to leave his wife and marry a woman with whom he was having, in Cain’s words, a “relationship.” Gingrich did it twice for good measure.
Of course, if this is case, the Tea Party has a serious problem. While former Cain enthusiasts and Gingrich supporters are willing to overlook and perhaps admire extra-marital “relationships”, the dominionist sect of the Tea Party believes such behavior should be punishable by death.
If they manage to resolve this difference within two sects who think compromise is a dirty word, the Tea party has a credibility problem. How do you sell a belief in family values if you support a candidate whose attitude toward marriage is reminiscent of Henry the VIII?
Actually, it’s simpler than you think. If marital fidelity is a problem you sell the hallmark of family values: exploiting children. Lately, Gingrich has emphasized the value of job creation for children. He would replace adults with nine year old children as school janitors, or assistant janitors, or well something that teaches poor children what work is. According to the GOP’s primary public relations outlet, Fox, Gingrich elaborated on his adaption of the Ebenezer Scrooge philosophy toward poor children during a campaign event in Iowa on Thursday.
“Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed.
“They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal,” he added.
Can’t you just feel the family values?
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17 Responses to Feel The Family Values: Herman Cain’s Pain Is Newt Gingrich’s Gain
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Sarah Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
No one from poor neighborhoods works, eh? This from Gingrich, who lives in Georgia, surrounded by rural communities with hard-working farmers and exceptional poverty. He drives by poor people working their road side stand all weekend after working the farm all week, he drives by shrimpers and other hard working laborers who are economically suffering —
yet he comes out with this kind of statement.
And he calls himself a Christian. SHAME on him.
Linda1961
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Sarah, Gingrich has no shame, and it appears, neither does most of the gop.
Deborah Montesano
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Sarah, Gin-grinch may drive by these families (and on farms, children are almost always expected to work) but he is peculiarly unable to see beyond the end of his own nose.
Anne
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Gingrich is exactly the kind of elitist that the GOP likes to pretend Obama is. What else could possibly explain his suggestion that adult, unionized workers should be financially disenfranchised in favor of child janitors with child labor laws suspended in the name of giving kids a “work ethic?” He’s obviously oblivious to the very real fact that there are plenty of working poor Americans who live in these very neighborhoods he describes so negatively. They not only exist in ghettos, but also in places like Appalachia. His comments are both patronizing and ignorant, and in addition to his ethical problems, they should disqualify him from ever winning another elective office, especially the presidency.
Ex republican
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Once again the republican Americans proved to be a nothing but a loyal herd of the almighty politically correct syndrome that is nothing more than a Racist voice of the establishment from both Right and Left.
2011 and we judge a man outside a court.
We really killed the only chance we ever had to replace the empty promises of Obama with a real credible Boss – Herman Cain.
I’m so ashamed to be American today.
just remember people, Nov 2012 – Obama will be reelected.
Is that really what you want?
Anne
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I would take Obama over Cain any day, along with a Congress that no longer has the GOP miscreants who have created so much havoc along with their Blue Dog Democratic enablers. Cain is a black, male version of Palin in his stupidity and ignorance, his narcissism, and his inability to take responsibility for his own actions. It WOULD have been a shame if he had ever managed to win the GOP nomination, much less the White House.
phoebes
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Yup, that’s EXACTLY what I want!
majii
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
I would never vote for Cain because he espouses failed policies like more tax cuts for the rich, disenfranchising voters, and marginalizing those who differ from himself ideologically. As for those “empty promises” of President Obama’s, I beg to differ. According to PolitiFact, he has fulfilled many of his campaign promises–health care reform, producing green energy jobs, Wall St. Reform, a new hate crimes law, an overhaul of our food safety system, and others. I’ve found that one thing that many who claim to be “disappointed” in President Obama cite as a major failure is that Gitmo is still open for business. These individuals do not acknowledge that when the issue came up for a vote in Congress, the republicans and a majority of the democrats ran scared sue to RW fear mongering and voted against closing the facility. Since I’m also a retired high school social studies teacher, I’ve noticed that many Americans don’t understand the way our government operates and tend to place sole responsibility for everything on a U.S. president. If Congress fails to act, and the Constitution tasks them with the responsibility, what is any president who wants to follow the Constitution to do? As Americans, we must stop giving Congress a free pass as each of its members collects $174,000/per yr + benefits of our money and fails to do its job, and whose members use subterfuge to convince many of us to blame the president whom the Constitution doesn’t task with passing laws related to the issues that are causing us to be frustrated in the first place.
Rev. Devon
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
If I was a poor kid working at school I’d blow every check I’d have gotten on things that would have rotted my brain and teeth. Or my mother would have taken it away. Or bullies…
Nightfly
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Newt is toast if he wins the primary.Most of this country would not put up with his archaic posturing.We need to good into the future.Not backwards with old man Newt.
john
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
not only is the GOP oblivious to the contradictions, and suffering..they fully intend to disenfranchise the votes of these “others”.. character assisination, coupled with denial of rights
BU
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Substitute “rich” for “poor” in his first remark and, arguably, you get a similar fallacy, “Really [rich] children, in really [rich] neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed. Rich socialites come to mind.
Mike B
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
I grew up working class and had many poor people all around me, adults and children, and almost without exception they all knew what a hard days work was. They also knew how little you could make doing it. Newt Gingrich is a F**king *ss H*le. I’ll go to my grave before I vote for a satan worshipping republican.
stan chaz
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 10:37 pm
The circus…..goes on and on and on. And the guy who is twice divorced and had an extra-marital affair with his current wife hopes to gain the most from this. Amazing! More than ever, as I look at the sorry set of Republican “rivals” on the other side, I am THANKFUL to have Barack Obama as President, and as a viable candidate for re-election. Mr. Obama: your heart, your values, and your basic decency are all in the right place. BUT…your hands are tied. Unfortunately they were tied by us, the electorate…..when we failed to provide you with a Congress that you can work with. Instead, you are saddled with a don’t-tax-the-1%-do-nothing Congress that battles you at every turn, while the people suffer. God, they don’t EVEN let you pass your own appointments. It’s not Tea-publican gridlock -it’s Tea-publican sabotage. Heck, it’s Tea-publican treason….while the 99% BLEEDS. And then they try to pin the blame on Mr. Obama. These people have no shame…or else its been purchased by those who can afford to do so. In her last years, Grandma gets her meager Social Security check, and they DARE to call it “socialism”. Give me a break! (and Grandma too!) Thankfully, with Occupy Wall Street, America has found its voice: a voice that reminds us that people -ordinary down-to-earth working people- really DO matter. Not “corporations are people -people” , but REAL people! Tea-publicans want even MORE 1%-tax-break-corporate-loopholes….while these “job-creators” send our jobs overseas, and wish that we’d go away too…. as they buy every politician in sight. And if these politicians don’t have ENOUGH mistresses, I can hook them up with a few gorgeous -and rich!- oil companies. It would be a perfect blind date, except for the fact that they’re ALREADY in bed with them :-). But instead of talking about LESS government, and LESS taxes on the 1%, and MORE corporate welfare, and MORE painful cuts to those who can LEAST afford it….Occupy is a voice that demands a government that WORKS, a government that works FOR ALL OF US, not just for a favored few….not just for the rich. It’s a voice that comes up from the grassroots, and lifts us up in turn: because it insists that this land IS our land…and that we WANT IT BACK! It’s a voice that will help us re-elect the President AND give him a more progressive people-oriented Congress to work with. Mr. Obama: I wish you well…. because you STILL give us hope!
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Scarsdale
Dec. 5th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Well, the “cream of the crop” running for office on the gop side consists of a motley crew. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. The only jobs W ever had (and screwed up) were given to him by his father’s friends. He coasted along on other people’s money until Rove’s vote skewering gave him the presidency. I know lots of poor people with more work ethic than W ever thought of having. Gingrich is a joke, a bloated, adulterous, self-promoting, joke.