Speeches of the Living Dead: Santorum, Blackwell, and Gingrich

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It’s a real horror show here at FRC’s WB. Former senator Rick Santorum came out to slam Hillary Clinton on abortion, former Ohio secretary of state Kenneth Blackwell came out to jabber about civilization or ideas or something, and former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich came out to talk about how Americans support certain things in massive majorities (prayer in schools, the pledge of allegiance, etc.) only be see their near-consensus on these issues overruled by the courts and the elites in Washington. Newt also selectively chose a bunch of historical facts to make it appear the Founders were strong supporters of faith in government. That’s been debunked, fortunately.

Newt also thinks we’re going to have a sea change in this country, because large swaths of the country can obviously see we’re heading to hell in handbasket. I can’t warn you about this conservative revolution because my brain is fried. Completely fried. I can hardly type.

And I still have Romney in two hours. Jesus.

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