Wonkette
Newt Gingrich is suddenly a papist! Does he know that he now has to live in Maryland, the designated Catholic slave colony of Lord Baltimore? It’s true. Gingrich was converted in D.C., however, at a Capitol Hill church the other night, after which he went to “celebrate” at the very fancy Cafe Milano restaurant, with lobbyists. Why did he switch to this new Jesus? Well his young (and third) wife is Catholic, so this will shush her up good for a few years, until he divorces her for a new teenager. But obviously the real reason is that he wants to be president and has already calculated some close electoral college scenario where this will put him over the top in a crucial Rust Belt state. [The Caucus]
Doesn’t a conversion in DC essentially make him a muslin now? He should check his receipt.
oh Jim, how I wish ye had blessed us with some alt text on this one…
That image is very disturbing. I wish you’d have chosen something else. I realize that it’s a shameful part of American history that we should never forget, but it’s too much.
I always knew Gingrich was a man of profound faith — he deeply believes in whatever religion will get him the most pussy.
Did he have to get his first 2 marriages annulled? Let’s hear him recite the Catechism. And how many saints can he name? Or Popes?
space stout: some Photoshopped force lightning would be excellent. Also.
But now when he upgrades to wife #4, he’ll have to pay a lawyer AND the church, so God will forget wife #3. Not sure he’s thought this one through.
When asked why her husband converted, the youngest Mrs. Gingrich merely pointed to her T-shirt which read:
“I have the vagina, that’s why!”
She then asked the reporter if her Aeropostale pants with pink lettering on the ass made her look fat.
I’d vote for Lizard People before I vote for this a-hole.
How is this man still gainfully employed? What secret cabal is keeping the Gingrich clan afloat?
LittlePig: Also @MaceWindu: “POWER. UN…LIMITED…POWER!!!”
I just hope his next ex-wife is Jewish, because ha ha, old-age circumcision! Unless he’s circumcised already, like many gentile Americans. So there’s something to ponder this Tuesday evening: Is Newt Gingrich circumcised, or not?
comradepaulson: +1
Rrrawwwrrrarrraaarrwwrrrwaarrrrcontract with Americarrarr!
loudmouthredhead: i believe he did this solely to appease the jesuits.
Can you even be a Catholic with two ex-wives?
“this will shush her up good for a few years, until he divorces her for a new teenager”
As each wife passes peak freshness, the rock on their wedding ring bleeps out it’s final message and the sandmen go to work. Sadly, the last one was a runner.
I would like to volunteer to inflict all the catholic damage on “NEWT” that he missed by not attending a catholic school full of rabid child-hating nuns and sadomasochistic pedophile priests.
huh? The future-ex-Mrs-Gingrich can’t be much of a Catholic if she married a twice-divorced guy.
chascates:
1. Duh, he knows St. Patrick, St. Valentine and St. Joseph’s Aspirin for Children.
2. Someone else should come up with the obvious Repuglican/Catholic Priest pedophilia joke.
3. “Papist” needs to make a comeback along with Mohammadean.
Well, he couldn’t have been married in the Catholic church, since he had already been married and divorced twice. So really Newt and his wife are living in sin. I suppose that makes the sex better, but on the other hand Wife 3 has to hear herself denounced as the Whore of Babylon every night when Newt gets home.
Oh Jesus. Nobody’s version of Jesus is safe these days from these yahoos…
and Xenu’s teaming with Palin…
Was it Opus Dei, like Aldrich Ames?
WadISay: Newt recently bought a person-sized salt lick so the happy couple could play “Sodom & Gomorrah” every night.
I’m sure he’s not the only thrice-married Catholic in Congress.
When everything you believe is inconsistent with reality, how much does one more hypocrisy really hurt?
There goes the neighborhood!
I figure he’s just getting ready for his run for Pope. He figures, hey, they elected a Nazi, they’ll take anybody.
The Bible thumpers and Real Americans back in Jawja are wondering why the Newt abandoned the snake-handling Baptist voters in favor of men who wear skirts. Tossed ‘em under the bus, he did. Found the Evangelicals weren’t good enough for him no more. Sarah Palin is a happy little moose-killer today.
jagorev: and ya had to go there.
I’m doing my best to visualize unicorns and butterflies but they keep morphing into little nasty turtles with puss filled eyes.
his odd elitist preppy name doesn’t help. He’s like some character out of a PG Wodehouse novel.
SayItWithWookies: Catholics get a lot? Even that Pope guy?
1. He can have my old seat - if he can find it amidst all the other empty seats, and
2. This is not as disturbing as finding out that the patron saint of capitalists is St. Homobonus from the land of Cremora.
Gurkman: Those of us Jesuit educated do not want him either.
ForTheTurnstiles: Depends on what the meaning of “it” is.
The left of my screen says I’m supposed to do something to “free Newt,” from Catholicism, perhaps. To that I say, “fuck you Newt,” as is my wont.
He didn’t go all in for the priesthood and an eternity of humping young altar boys … are we sure he didn’t switch his party affiliation too?
So the catlicks are taking in sinners now.
I’m going back to Saturday night ass mass again.
The Repubs want to steal all the catholics because as we all know catholics spend their days weeping for all the babies liberals kill. Part of his plot to lose the presidential primary in aught twelve.
Cat lickers don’t accept newcomers as readily as say your basic Four Sqaure Baptist Church and Salad Bar. I don’t doubt this is a political move, but maybe not such a smart one, Newt. But good luck with that.
Meh. He just converted so he could get into Tony “Bush-Poodle” Blair’s pants.
He wants Tony to teach him ALL about the “third way.”
And Tony ain’t teachin’ NUTHIN’ to no Protties.
“…his young (and third) wife” I have seen pics of Mrs. Gingrich III (morbid curiosity as to who would want to see Newt naked much less fuck him on a desk on Capitol Hill). She doesn’t look young to me. She looks like an old, cotton-candy haired, Dallas Mary Kay sales rep who runs over the Messican gardeners in her pink Cadillac Escalade.
jagorev: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Not an image I want in my head (sliced or otherwise).
Number6: Opus Dei was Robert Hanssen, admirer of strippers, was the, uh, devout Catholic who sold out his country to the Soviet Union.
Ames, the CIA traitor, pretty much did it because he wanted to buy his wifey a Jaguar.
And why did W betray his country? Cuz the Neocons told him to.
If his previous marriges were not performed by catholic clergy such as jesus and his father God,then they are not really marriges in the eyes of the one true church thus his fourth marrige is actually his first.
Mustang: I don’t think Newt could explain transubstantiation and will find himself deeply puzzled by the quaint ethnic traditions of Rust Belt Catlickers. I would say maybe a third of Catholics at most will like Newt because of the dead babies thing and that’s probably the same third that still thinks Bush was a good president.
WadISay: I could not put doctrine more concisely. As long you are a Catholic and not married by the Church, then it doesn’t count and you are probably headed to hell as my mother always reminds my cousins.
It was sweet of the latest Mr. Newt to share a pic from their first date, in the supplies room.
Does this make him more or less likely to go to hell?
What’s the bottom line here? Does this make him more or less likely to go to hell?
Bill Donohue won’t let him joining Opus Dei until he becomes a mackerel snapper and buggers his first altar boy. The things you have to do do for absolute power.
WadISay: Nah, if he wasn’t married catholic in the first place, he wasn’t really married at all.
chascates: WadISay: Min: Ha! Newty’s sooo in on a technicality! Since he did all his sinful divorcing and remarrying before converting, it’s clean slate for Gingritch. All those nasty original sins and (clichéd unoriginal sins, also) washed away by the miracle of baptism. Technically, now that he’s a catlicker, he’s not supposed to do that shit anymore.
Also, Jimmy Newell: Why did he switch to this new Jesus? Ahem. I’m pretty sure the Catholics have dibs on the original Jesus. You know, the clean white Jesus that looks like a freshly bathed AngloSaxon hippy, only with better teeth.
Also, with his record of criticizing others behavior and changing his tune to fit whatever the convenient politcal trend gains him the most, I think Newty would make an awesome bishop. He’s got the silver hair and piggish face for it, too.
chascates: The Catholic rule against divorce only applies if the marriage being ended was performed within the Holy Mother Church. Really! I think the King of Spain’s son (or some other Catholic royal, I forget now) recently married some divorced chick, but because her first marriage was performed by a heathen judge, they could still have a faboo wedding in the royal cathedral overseen by a robèd archbisop, etc.
Newt Gingrich is going to marry the King of Spain, is my point.
Josh Fruhlinger: Good! If he goes to Spain maybe he can be arrested for war crimes. Or whore crimes. Or something.
By 2016 we’ll all be rust belt states.
Newt late today announced that tomorrow he will become a Negro Jew, and depending on how the polls look, possibly a Transgendered Muslin.
Josh Fruhlinger: At Blessed Sacrament by Chevy Chase Circle, no doubt.
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There’s an old story about Constantine the Great (written by a hostile pagan source). Constantine has killed his son and his mother and immediately after, is stricken with guilt. He runs around to all the pagan priests for absolution, all of whom insist that his crime is unforgivable. He meets, however, some friendly Christian priest, who assures him that as soon as he becomes Christian, all his sins will be washed away. He converts, bans divination and moves out of Rome.
Anyway, I was reminded of this when I read about Gingrich. The Catholic Church doesn’t care if you’re an amoral scumbag, Gingrich! We/they accept anybody!
Damn it, Newt! Just because I moved out of that religion twenty-odd years ago does not mean you have permission to move into it.
Duh.
Catholics get to drink fine wine all the time, even in church.
Evangelicals have to settle for bootleg rotgut likker surreptitiously sipped in the garage when no one is looking.
Which one would YOU choose, assuming that you had to choose one or the other?
SayItWithWookies: If that’s the case, then he picked the wrong religion. Catholicism is the best religion to get young boys’ anuses, not pussy.
Giant Robot: I thought you were j/k about St. Homobonus, but I wuz rong.
Hm, they analogized St. Homobonus to Charlie Brown. Who knew?
President Beeblebrox: I know, right? Wow!
comradepaulson: win
BAGGED!
Well, okay, it worked for the Kennedys, in spite of the polls…. not so much for old King Henry, but thereby lays another tale….I can somehow see newt with the ruffled collar, though…
he could have joined the “blood drenched, splintered, nailed body of jeebus AME church”. for teh black vote. also
Cathoholic? He looks like he is channeling his inner Voldemort in teh picture.
President Beeblebrox: For the clergy and the wear-in-on-your-sleeve assholes, sure. The regular ones just get to do what they want, unless they’re naive enough to take the religion seriously. Mostly, Catholicism is full of dumbass rules that you soon realize carry no consequences when you break them.
space stout: “The power of Christ compels you! Out, demon, out!” Goes well with Newt’s newfound faith.
Frankly, I thought Newt had been neutered by now. Frankly.
Considering the success he had with his Contract On America, why not with Popie, now?
Atheist Nun: Unleash Hell!
loudmouthredhead: win!
Atheist Nun: Sarah? Is that you!?
“Vagina is worth a mass.”