Politics of Personal Morality…
… cut in all directions. Gingrich comes clean about a extramarital affair while pushing for Clinton’s impeachment and will take hits for hypocrisy. Old news he’s getting out of the way ahead of a potential run. Clinton had problems with extramarital affairs, but his big problem was his excessive interest in junior subordinates, the fact that the sordidness was all coming out as he was leader of the free world, and the straight-faced, lip-biting lying to investigators and the American people, the lawsuits, etc. Gingrich may run into some of the same problems, seeing as the woman in question was a 33-year-old congressional aide and he was a morally righteous House Speaker at the time. The left already hates him, and anyone on the right who might look askance at moral failings, well, he’s trying to soften that blow with a little lip-biting of his own.
”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.”
Captain’s Quarters: Checking his baggage at the door.
Michelle: Conservatives may forgive hypocritical cheating, but whether they’ll buy the snarky talk show guest as presidential material is another matter.
Pam over at the Dem Daily is sickened by Newt, which I guess means Bill put her into a full-body heave.
Todd at Dem Daily says Newt broke Georgia law, though I must have missed the part where Newt specified he and the congressional aide committed … acts … in that jurisdiction. We need DC law, or federal law, or whatever, Todd. Maybe Virginia and Maryland law. Don’t forget the law of Arkansaw! For the morality scofflaw tote board. Get on it! So many infidelities, so little time!
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:29 am on Friday, March 9, 2007
5 Responses to “Politics of Personal Morality…”
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March 9th, 2007 at 9:39 am
I never liked this guy.
I work for a home health care agency in the late 90’s when those cuts came through that supposedly helped balance the budget we had to cut off about 80% of our medicare patients.
The poor ones went on medicaid immeidately in which case the states helped pick up the cost. The others either died off or ended up in nursing homes or went through all their resources until they were total care on medicaid. Either way the gain was short term, but short term was all Newt cared about.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I can’t stand Newt Gingrich. He’s a frothing pit bull.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Jules
No contest - I heaved more over Newt.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Gingrich. Bright, but stupid. But then he’s a guy and as most, if not all women know, guys are stupid.
I’m sure there are enough scandals left in his closet to keep him away from the White House, as an occupant. There are/were times I liked him, there are/were times I disliked him.
March 10th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Cid, I don’t think all guys are stupid. I like guys!
Newt isn’t stupid. He just has no judgment. There’s a difference. I could excuse his stupidity because no one has control over the degree of native intelligence they may possess. A lack of judgment denotes much more serious problems–and he seems to have most of them. As such, he did more harm than good.
‘Sides, I think he’s icky.