In 1996 Bill Clinton raked in 11 percentage points more women than men, 54% of all women and 43% of all men voted for Clinton. The only other president to get a higher women vote was Barack Obama with 56%.[3] This gap has serious significance. Bill Clinton won with 49.2% of the popular vote or 47 million votes. Fifty-four percent of all women voters voted for Bill Clinton. While men were split 43% Clinton, 44% Dole and 10% Perot. The Clinton – Dole divide was insignificant among men, only 1 percentage point. However among women that gap is 54% of women voting for Clinton to 38% of women voting for Dole. In terms of votes that is 11 million votes. Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole with just over 8 million votes.[1][4]
What these idiots fail to realize is it isn’t the infidelity that bothers women about Newt. As you pointed out, it didn’t bother them about Clinton.
The difference between Clinton/Obama and Newt is that both Clinton and Obama flirt with women. They charm women. They schmooze women and give women the impression that they just might get into bed with them.
Why do you think some women on FR were fawning all over Rick Perry? It wasn’t because Perry is good at the debate, it’s because of how Perry looks.
Gingrich, on the other hand, doesn’t flirt or go out of his way to make bedroom eyes at women like Clinton and Obama did, and Newt isn’t good-looking like Perry, the Marlboro Man.
Gingrich is a Grandpa who calls it like he sees it. Women want to be romanced, they want to be wooed, they want to be fawned over. Gingrich isn’t doing that, whereas Romney is, and Obama will, and that’s why women don’t like Gingrich. At their core, they are asking themselves why Gingrich isn’t trying to get in their pants.
(Now watch, a couple of FR women will jump all over me and claim “I wasn’t fawning all over Perry”... and I’ll just say what Ron Paul said in the debate to Santorum: “I didn’t mention you by name, so I think you’re being a little overly sensitive” and defensive. But watch — it will happen.)
Women, who tend to vote more liberal than men, overlooked Bubba’s infidelities, and even his rape. I don’t think they would extend the same to conservative Newt.