Newt Gingrich Is A Hypocrite.
When I saw the following headline, my immediate reaction was, “Well duh!”
Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe
In an interview with conservative Christians the other day, the former Speaker of The House admitted to cheating on his wife during the time he was leading the pack to oust President Clinton, who, in case you don’t remember, was persecuted for cheating on his wife with intern Monica Lewinsky.
During the interview, given by James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, Newt Gingrich said, “The honest answer is yes.” He went on to say, “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.”
The potential 2008 presidential candidate also stated that he shouldn’t be seen as a hypocrite for pursuing President Clinton’s infidelity. Of the 1998 House impeachment on obstruction of justice and perjury charges, the former Georgia congressman said, “The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge…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.”
“There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them,” he said in the interview. “I look back on those as periods of weakness and periods that I’m … not proud of.”
All of this, keep in mind, is coming from a man who, according to his first wife Jackie Battley, discussed divorcing her while she was in the hospital healing from cancer surgery. He married his second wife, Marianne, just months after his divorce from Jackie. His marriage to Marianne ended in 2000 after it came out that Gingrich was cheating on her with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide who is more than 20 years his junior.
I stand by my initial reaction.
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While we’re on the subject of hypoctrites…
Here are a couple of interesting quotes from Mike Huckabee this week:
“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the
Constitution. But I believe its a lot easier to change the Constitution
than it would be to change the word of the living God. And thats what we need to do is amend the Constitution so its in Gods standards rather than trying to change Gods standards so it lines up with some
contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the
family.”
OK….I get it… He wants to change the most historic document in
American history. OK I guess, if that’s really how he feels.
“Well, I don’t think thats a radical view to say we’re going to affirm
marriage. I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change
the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal. Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again. I think the radical position is to make a change in whats been historic.”
Oh…wait a minute…Huckabee does NOT want to change what’s been
historic? But I thought he just said he DID want to change what’s been
historic… Now I’m all confused! Huckabee is giving me a headache – I
just can’t keep up! Somebody get me some aspirin and a bottle of
Absolut… I need to go lie down. I feel like I might just have to
upchuckabee.
Scary part? There are Americans who take this right wing bigot SERIOUSLY! Yet Americans think of Middle Eastern folks as being dangerous religious fundamentalists and radicals.
Forget the aspirin…. I think I need a couple Oxycontin.
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