On Saturday, likely Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivered the commencement address at the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. During his address, Newt, ever the hypocrite, assailed what he calls "radical secularism."
In an editorial today, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette struck back, writing:
Who is Newt Gingrich to lecture the rest of us on the place of religion in public life? He is someone who left the job of speaker under an ethical cloud. He is someone who has been divorced twice and married three times. (His first wife has said he discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating from cancer surgery.) He is someone who recently admitted that he was having an extramarital affair even as he was flaying President Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky (that was different, he said, because the president lied under oath).
Perhaps the fact that Gingrich felt compelled to kiss the ring of the religious right says as much about his party today as it does about him. Simply put, the far right still owns the Republican party, as Mayor Rudy is about to learn. Today there is only one remaining mainstream party in American politics and that is the Democratic Party.
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