Newt is starting to play the Catholic card

What does a conservative politicians do who has a tarnished political reputation, and committed adultery and ethics violations? Normally a former Southern Baptist like Newt would become reborn.

But that's not what Newt did in 2009. He converted to Catholcism. Shortly afterward, he criticized the newly inaugurated President Obama who was invited to Notre Dame University to speak.

Perhaps Newt thinks he is the reincarnation of JFK and will lead the nation out of it darkness. Perhaps he thinks he can get both the Evangelical and Catholic vote in the next election.

In the 2008 election cycle, Gingrich did not do well with Evangelicals because of his three marriages and adultery scandals.

Perhaps he turned Catholic to spite the Evangelicals who abandoned him in 2008.

Tonight in the GOP debates Gingrich suggested that the contemporary “crisis of values” stems from the anti-clericalism of the French Revolution.

The Catholic church was attacked during the French revolution because it supported the French nobility's divine right of kings as the Second Estate. Some French became atheists and others--deists--who were people who believed in God, but not organized religion.

Priests and bishops were persecuted and church property confiscated during this revolution.  

Many of the founders like Jefferson, Monroe and Franklin were deists. 

No doubt the Catholic church liked Newt's quote although the crises we are in today has little to do with the "crises of values"  or the French revolution. 

This is psuedo-intellectual double talk.

In any event, be prepared for Newt to play the Catholic card even more.

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