Newt should crawl under the nearest rock
Newt Gingrich admited to having an affair during the same period of time that he was trying to get Bill Clinton impeached. Am I surprised? No.
The most surpising aspect is that his admission is intended to clear the slate for a possible presidential bid.
You can hear the interview over at Focus on the Family.
Will voters forgive him, just as God did? I don’t think he should get off that easily. But even if he is given a pass on the affair, he’s got a lot of other skeletons that may be harder to explain away.
The following is an excerpt from a 2006 Salon article:
By 1996, Gingrich found himself saddled with a number of ethical problems similar in type, though not in scale, to the Abramoff scandal. He was accused of misusing nonprofit organizations for political purposes, personally benefiting from political contributions and giving false statements to ethics investigators. The House eventually voted to reprimand Gingrich and require him to pay a $300,000 penalty.
Shortly after this, he resigned.
And The Guardian has this on his first divorce:
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.
Wow. If that is anything similar to how he’d run the country, we could be in even worse shape than W. has gotten us into.
Also from the same Guardian article:
“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.”
Sounds like God has gotten sick of listening to him babble about how bad of a person he is…
