Ruh Roh v. Newt Admits Cheating

SoFlaJDM · 03-08-2007, 09:59 PM

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards."
Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.
"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."

let's see how the conservatives respond to this... i'm sure it will be more downplaying... nothing new

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ballz2wallz · 03-08-2007, 10:58 PM

INteresting...

Scrum · 03-09-2007, 12:03 AM

Just another reason on a long list of things that will make voters run for the hills.

I think it's pretty safe to say we will never be seeing President Newt Gingrich.

Thorgrim · 03-09-2007, 12:40 AM

Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson must be crying in a corner...no matter what happens they went 2005 when the house, senate and white house were all courting them, to 2009 where the house, senate and white house will all give them the finger

Thorgrim · 03-09-2007, 12:49 AM

check out this shit:

His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, ended in divorce in 1981. Although Gingrich has said he doesn't remember it, Battley has said Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery.

Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe - Yahoo! News

haha what a cock, Rudy did asshole moves to his wife too

What kind of jerk goes on national television to announce his divorce before he tells his wife? And he was the one cheating on her

JaJae · 03-09-2007, 12:51 AM

I don't think he just came down on Clinton for the perjury. I'm gonna have to go ahead and say he is a hypocrite despite his personal belief.

Scrum · 03-09-2007, 02:41 AM

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

check out this shit:

His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, ended in divorce in 1981. Although Gingrich has said he doesn't remember it, Battley has said Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery.

Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe - Yahoo! News

haha what a cock, Rudy did asshole moves to his wife too

What kind of jerk goes on national television to announce his divorce before he tells his wife? And he was the one cheating on her

Yep.

I think he went on to marry their housekeeper or something like that after the divorce.

lew · 03-09-2007, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson must be crying in a corner...no matter what happens they went 2005 when the house, senate and white house were all courting them, to 2009 where the house, senate and white house will all give them the finger

Hopefully Paul will be giving them that finger

ballz2wallz · 03-09-2007, 10:58 AM

I think this pretty much sums up the reaction towards it:

It’s the same strategy lawyers use in having their own witnesses confess to bad deeds on direct examination instead of waiting for it to come out in cross. Makes it look like contrition, even though it isn’t. But at least we know now he’s thinking seriously of running. Otherwise, why admit it in the first place?
I don’t think he stands a chance. The media hates him and the public is weary of polarizing figures, which explains 90% of Obama’s appeal vis-a-vis Hillary. Plus, as the face of the 1994 GOP takeover, Newt is a symbol of Republican hegemony. That’s why we love him, and that’s also why the public at this particular point in history is going to be skittish.
If anyone benefits from this announcement, I’d say it’s Romney. The more the public finds out about Giuliani’s and Gingrich’s peccadilloes, the more comparatively attractive Mitt becomes. If his camp’s willing to play dirty, I’d expect them to go after McCain’s indiscretions and make the case even clearer to morals voters that there’s only one choice for them among the major candidates.
Then again, Mitt’s got bigger things to worry about.
Moran’s got a solid rundown of Newt’s problems including the notorious fact about him filing for divorce while his wife was hospitalized with cancer, which, incredibly, makes Rudy’s breakup with Donna Hanover at a press conference only the second-tackiest marital crackup on the GOP side. And speaking of Rudy, Reuters has a stupid hit piece on him out today quoting New York leftists still traumatized by their time in the Giuliani gulag. They’d better sob louder if they want to drown out the boost this will give him.

SoFlaJDM · 03-09-2007, 12:50 PM

hot air

ballz2wallz · 03-09-2007, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by SoFlaJDM

hot air

What's wrong with them? They bash cons as much as they bash libs

avsp · 04-14-2007, 09:58 AM

The practice of public confession & contrition being spun to overshadow the 'crime' itself as political tactic to avoid the need to resign, (or whatever), is seen as a typically American habit.

Presumably its coz of the greater 'Christian' culture over there as compared to here in the UK. That said such behaviour is becoming increasingly common over here as well.
Jonathan Aitken is the current leading UK exponent of this & is near universally seen as a a duplictious waste of space.

There are worse things than being a hypocrite IMO, ..., often the 'crime' that gets overlooked in the accusations of hypocracy.

Bush's 'yes i used to be a drunk etc' little chat actually makes me scream with laughter.

Compare it with Carters totally unnessecary 'sinned in my heart' confession in Playboy from wayback before history ended

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