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Is there just a disconnect with Republicans and morality when it comes to stimulate and marriage?

Earlier this hebdomad on Michael Medved's talk-radio show, potential politico statesmanly politician Mike Huckabee blamed actress Natalie Portman. The Oscar-winning actress haw hit gone to altruist and excelled at science, but that trail of praise-worthy activity is obliterated by her "out-of-wedlock" pregnancy, said Huckabee this hebdomad on Michael Medved's talk-radio show.

According to the past river governor, thousands of young girls aim on a chronicle of faith morality haw instead embellish azygos mothers, thanks to Portman.

"What's troubling is that grouping wager a Natalie Portman or whatever another tone starlet who boasts of, 'Hey look, you know, we're having children, we're not married, but we're having these children, and they're doing just fine,'" said Huckabee. "But there aren't rattling a aggregation of azygos moms discover there who are making millions of dollars every year for existence in a movie."

Huckabee then neatly pivoted to that dependable Reagan conversation point, the welfare queen: "Most azygos moms are rattling poor, uneducated, can't intend a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be deprivation to modification and never hit health care." He added, "You know, correct now, 75 proportionality of black kids in this country are dropped discover of wedlock. Sixty-one proportionality of American kids," he said on Feb. 28. "The outlay of that is only staggering."

Really Mike? Do "young girls aim on a chronicle of faith virtue" typically countenance to Jewish women as persona models? Is the divorce evaluate for faith women rattling that much modify than non-Christians? Is Natalie Portman actually feat discover there and telling grouping that they should intend meaningful out-of-wedlock? I'm pretty sure that the answer to every those questions is "no, of instruction not."

Yes, Mike, Natalie Portman is a horrible persona model. She downsized her tone occupation to focus on an education, excelling in a challenge subject at a arduous school, and then waited to hit a child until she was a well-paid, ingrained professed in a stable (and soon-to-be married).

Yes, Mike, we should every plan to be same Bristol Palin, who had a child as a teenaged high school enrollee with a cad.

Instead of occupation discover Portman, maybe he should countercurrent into 2012 statesmanly hopeful Newt Gingrich, whose adult "lifestyle choices" abut on the obscene.

And that brings us to Bill Maher.

In the New Rules segment of his HBO program, Maher lampooned Gingrich's well-publicized married woes and affairs, pointing discover the two-faced nature of the standpat handle when it comes to sex, faithfulness and wedlock by drawing parallels between Gingrich and individual of the most obvious Republicans with that of Democrats John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer. Their disreputable meltdowns were the clog of newspaper fodder throughout the media. In fact, theologist cheated on his wife patch she was battling cancer --just same Newt. Yet theologist "couldn't intend elected canid catcher," patch Newt is running for president.

Maher lists another Republicans who decussate a distinction Huckabee would encounter offensive, yet, Nevada Sen John Ensign and Louisiana Sen David Vitter are ease in office. How many of their constituents were pleased to wager theologist and Spitzer depart for the moral failures?

Given these simple facts, why aren't we outraged at the kind of example Newt Gingrich is setting? And what does it say most a nation, or at the rattling least, a semipolitical party, that looks the another way in the grappling of much scornful double standards?

As Maher place it in closing, "You can't hit the individualized motive of a man who fixes canid fights and run on values."