Unhatched chicken counting

[thewayne]

"I am going to be the nominee."
— Newt Gingrich

And how many sexual indiscretions have you had, Newt? Let's see: divorcing your wife while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer, having sex with an intern while simultaneously supervising the trial for President Clinton for having sex with an intern?

You can't exactly claim to hold the moral high ground.

Comments

[silveradept]

They're not looking for moral high ground in this election - they're looking for someone who they can convince the public is better than Barack Obama, no matter what the skeletons in his closet are.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree that the Republican's goal is to produce someone who appears better than Obama. But the money behind the RNC is from the Religious Right and Moral Majority. So my question is to how much weight their voice (and dollar$) will hold. Cain will announce later on Saturday whether he'll continue in the race (I think he'll be gone by the end of the year, if not Saturday), and thus far The Newt is the only one with known sexual indiscretions in his past so he could be an easy target for anyone else who wants to bring those to the foreground.

[silveradept]

But then there are the dark money groups that allow the Corporatists to take control of the process through media blitzes and the rest. There's a strong possibility that the post-Citizens corporations will be able to render the main parties obsolete excepting that they actually do the nominating and provide the front for the Corporations.