You wrote:
“Actually, you are on both sides of your own argument.”
No, I am not.
“Get it together, decide what you’re going to whine about, and come back when you aren’t so flustered.”
I have never been flustered online. Why would anyone get flustered posting online. The very concept makes no sense to me.
“Gingrich isn’t worthy of the presidency due to his continuously variable political temperament.”
I understand why someone would conclude that. I would say that I would rather have him than Romney or Obama, however.
“Catholics decided that he could be one of them, but they will see the true political motives after the Convention, if not before - and I feel sorry for those Catholics who must now share their faith and tolerate the political bureaucracy of their church (without complaint) to accommodate someone like Newt.”
No one accomodated Newt. He had to accommodate himself to the Church. Newt is a politician and he may indeed one day cynically use the Church. I see no evidence of him having done that yet.
“No one accomodated Newt. He had to accommodate himself to the Church. Newt is a politician and he may indeed one day cynically use the Church. I see no evidence of him having done that yet.”
Of course they did, and they shouldn’t have. At the very least they shouldn’t have allowed it to appear to have accommodated him. A “come back after the primaries” would have been prudent and more respectful to the Catholic laity.
I think that those politically minded folks in the Catholic Church couldn’t resist the opportunity to have influence over a potential president, and went for it.
If Newt wanted to be respectful of his new faith, he’d not have immediately combined his conversion with a presidential bid. Why should he care though? He didn’t care about his ex wives - it was all about him. That’s why he’ll just divorce the Catholic church, if it becomes convenient for him to do so.