I DON'T LIKE THIS AT ALL

Newt Gingrich is a pretty clever politician so I'm willing to assume he's on to something by trying to pander to the Fundies (here and here) and this means that the Fundies may become a major electoral force again. This is very bad news because at bottom, they despise Western Civilization.

No longer conservative about his religion
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Washington Post

"There is a secular-left model of reality which cannot tolerate the thought that state control fails, that tyranny is evil and that a liberated human being whose rights come from God is the centerpiece of the human future," he said. In fact, he added later, he felt so strongly about this that "I'm trying to get a poster done. It's going to have a series of Polish crosses that form a cross."

A man in the audience stood up to say that over the past nine months, the Berlin Wall "is being reconstructed right here" by Obama and congressional Democrats. "At the end of four years, is it not likely that a lot more people will be rediscovering God through tyranny?"

"The underlying move toward a secular socialist worldview has been going on now at least since the early '90s," Gingrich answered. "The great Reagan Revolution defeated communists overseas, but it didn't defeat the left here at home."