Good morning, America…

It has been a little while since I last blogged here at DoubleSpeak. I have been busy moving, job hunting and re-acclimating to my life in our nation’s beautiful capitol city. However, I plan to increase the blogging in the coming weeks and months and we as a team hope to add some new faces to the blog team in the lead up to 2008.

There is an article from Cox Newspapers this morning on the marital status of the 2008 presidential candidates. When all is said and done, it seems that the party of family values (the Grand Ol’ Party) doesn’t really value their families too much.

The GOP has long touted itself as the party of family values, but its developing 2008 presidential field has recorded four divorces and one annulment, compared to three divorces among the Democrats.

Yeah, Democrats get divorced too, but you just have to love people like Rudy Giuliani (divorced twice) and Newt Gingrich (also twice divorced) who tout values and can’t seem to keep track of their own.

Will the hypocrisy ever end?

Newt Gingrich gets it right, for once:

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it…We are at one of those great intersections in history when we as a people are going to have to have a great conversation with each other.

Think Progress: Meet the new Newt. Nothing like the old Newt.