Cheney/Rove learned their lessons well from Gingrich (Susan Smith case)

[DemoTex]

Susan Smith was convicted in 1995 for the October 10, 1991 murder of her two young sons in South Carolina. As a shining light to Rove and Cheney, and a foul taste of future campaigns, Newt Gingrich blamed the murders on moral decay fostered by the Democrats. Gingrich made Susan Smith's murder case a campaign issue, not unlike Cheney/Rove have employed the same tactic in the Lieberman/Lamont campaign in Connecticut. Moral decay and murder then .. fear, terror, and death now. However, then - as now - their mouths are "full of pious hypocrisies" (Mark Twain).

Here's what Gingrich said three days before last November's (1994) election -- in response to an Associated Press reporter who asked him how the campaign was going: "Slightly more moving our way. I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things." Gingrich concluded, "The only way you get change is to vote Republican. That's the message for the last three days." Two days later, less than 24 hours before the polls opened, Gingrich defended his comments on the Smith case as no different than what he'd been saying for years -- that violence and related ills arise from a Democratic-controlled political system: "We need very deep change if we're going to turn this country around." Asked if the change he was offering the country would stop killings like those in South Carolina, he replied, "Yes. In my judgment, there's no question."
Today, reporters should ask Gingrich an obvious question: Does he still impute blame to the Democrats for Susan Smith's deed? Journalists might also ask Gingrich about Smith's stepfather, Beverly Russell. Prior to the kids' disappearance, Russell was busily campaigning not for the depraved Democrats, but for Newt Gingrich and his minions. Russell was a Republican leader in South Carolina and local organizer of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. During the nine days that Susan Smith had the country hunting for a nonexistent black carjacker, Russell urged nationwide prayer for the two missing kids: "All we can do is pray. This is a nightmare."
A prominent businessman and stockbroker, Russell married Smith's mom after she divorced Smith's dad (who later committed suicide). From the age of six, Russell raised Susan Smith in an upper-middle-class, church-going home. Gingrich's campaign comments notwithstanding, the home was free of counterculture and welfare-state influences.
But Susan Smith attempted suicide at age 13, and at age 15 told authorities that her step-dad had been sexually molesting her for at least a year. Her mother helped talk her out of pursuing charges against Russell. (At age 18, she attempted suicide again.)


Read the whole sordid story here:
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/8695/
Also read Robert Scheer:
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/94_columns/112794.htm

Susan Smith's Christian/GOP step-father, Bev Russell submitted to counseling for his pedophilia. One must wonder if it was not "pastoral counseling," so in vogue with the religious pervert set nowadays. Max nix (matters not), as we used to say in the Army. The counseling didn't "take". The urge for sexual rapture was way too strong for Brother Russell to keep his thing in his pants. Court records from Susan Smith's murder trial reveal that Mr. Russell was still having sex with his step-daughter as recently as two months before she murdered her two boys.

Cheney, Rove, and Gingrich are truly evil men. I can think of a whole lot of Scripture and Shakespeare that would work well here. But none busts these bastards like Mark Twain. Mark Twain hoists them up on the crosses - to really mix some metaphors - of their own, foul petards:
"I bring you the stately matron Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa and the Philippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass."

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. It shows how sick and twisted Gingrich is

to take a story like this and then accuse the Dems for causing the problem.

Glad we have the Internets now, because these lies get ripped apart in real time, instead of spreading and festering.

[DeSwiss]

2. O.M.G. After all this time...

... this is the first time I've heard of this. Which begs the question, why have the Dems allowed such "family values" claptrap from the Repugs, Pat Robertson, et. al., to go unanswered? Particularly since they've laid this so-called "sick societal problem" that supposedly resulted from the Democratically controlled government, at our doorstep?

I s'pose we shouldn't sink to this level of hypocrisy, but it seems to me that there are an inordinate number of Repugs and "renowned" Christian leaders who also seem to make up the majority of the infamous child sexual abusers. Maybe that should be a campaign slogan this fall: "Keeping Our Children Safe From Republican Congressmen and Christians."

Thanks for the post.