Newt Gingrich loves monogamy, hates gays

By Michael J.W. Stickings

The headline at Think Progress says it all: "Gingrich Pledges Not To Commit Infidelity A Third Time, Reaffirms Opposition To Marriage Equality."

He may be faking his anti-gay bigotry to win right-wing votes, but it's his fidelity pledge that's particularly amusing:

I also pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others.

It's not so much his past infidelity that matters, it's his massive hypocrisy. As Melissa McEwan puts it, also responding to the TP headline:

Which just underlines what bullshit the unholy marriage between political conservatives (small government! no taxes!) and social conservatives (big Jesus! no homo!) really is. There's nothing politically conservative about forcing people to sign pledges about private consensual sex acts, or about arguing that the government should be in the business of telling people they can't marry a consenting partner of legal age.

Gingrich doesn't give a flying flunderton about this horseshit, except insomuch as it will help him win the GOP nomination. (Or impeach a president.) He's got the sexual ethics of a Republican with no sexual ethics.

It's embarrassing to watch these sad, socially stunted failosaurs bray about getting Gingrich to sign their morality yearbooks as if it matters, as if he cares. What fools. 

Newt is playing them, to be sure. While he'll say he's found "God," or some such nonsense, what he's really found is how to sucker morons to give him money... and, he's hoping, their vote.