Green Footprints?

[forestwalker]

A Tale of Two Families

Family 1
In 1981, he dumped his first wife for wife number 2, while wife 1 was in the hospital undergoing cancer treatment. He famously visited wife 1 in the hospital where she was recovering from surgery for uterine cancer to discuss details of the divorce. He later resisted paying alimony and child support for his two daughters, causing a church to take up a collection. He and wife 2 divorced in December, 1999 after she found out about his long-running affair with his congressional aide. He asked wife 2 for the divorce by phoning her on Mother's Day, 1999. He married wife 3 in August, 2000, and left his congregation over the pastor's criticism of his divorces.

Family 2
The youngest of six (and only daughter) in a conservative Catholic Italian-American family, she attended the Institute of Notre Dame high school and Trinity (Women's) College. She married in 1963 and has enjoyed a happy and successful 45-year marriage. She and her husband have five children and seven grandchildren.

Family #1 is the decimated remains of the family headed by the archon of Republican family values, Newt Gingrich.

Family #2 is the happy and healthy family of Speaker Pelosi.



Pointing to the hypocrisies of the elites who push various agendas feels good but it doesn't say much about the agendas themselves.

And what does that have to do with George Bush and Al Gore.

The question is, what does it have to do with the validity and "rightness" of family values? "Do as I say, not as I do," is to be expected from secular elites. Newt Gingrich's being a complete and total schmuck discredits family values to the same degree that Gore's being a rank hypocrite discredits calls to live in greater harmony with nature. One group of folks want to say that Gingrich absolutely discredits calls for family values and another group wants to say that Gore absolutely discredits environmentalism. Both groups deserve the same eye-roll.