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I met the "new Newt" face-to-face in 2007. He was doing a book signing in his "American solutions" tent and had a national tour at the time talking about how he "rediscovered God" in his life and was now happily married to Callista, blah blah blah. I was on the fence about whether or not I would support him for a Presidential bid. In order to meet him, you had to sign up for his newsletter so I've gotten bombarded with emails about all his "solutions" for $2.50 gas and so on. When I finally got up the front, I looked Newt right in the eye and shook his hand, and attempted to start a conversation with him about the '94 Republican revolution.

I'll be voting for Santorum.

Families are what make the world go 'round. They're the whole point of the whole business. But every Christian pulls his own weight on making the world a place where that can happen. Government doesn't tell him to do it -- his heart does, because, "testifying" or not, he embraces the Judeo-Christian ethic and does right by God, as set forth in the Constitution, that which is honest and right. For freedom, government's job is to make it possible.

If you want strong families, strong morality, strong righteousness, GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY and let people be moral. For crying out loud, you can't even improve your own lot in life without being penalized by the government for doing what's right, whether it's having to get a building permit to improve your family's home, and the permit costs as much as the improvement being done, to trying to make a living farming, or fishing, or producing energy, without government crushing you on all sides -- taxes, codes, regulations, fees, requirements, oversight. Try openly rejecting open homosexuality in your schools, your churches, your workplaces, your military, your civic groups. Morally you know you have to do it for your children and for families ... and when you do, the government penalizes you. Morality is stifled. As a landlord, try refusing to rent to an unmarried couple because you don't want to enable that lifestyle. WHAT keeps you from behaving morally?

GOVERNMENT.

We don't need a candidate who can point out moral failings in people. We need a candidate who will slay government, weaken it in how it chokes and punishes, and create the freedom for moral people to prosper and thrive.

Godspeed Newt Gingrich.