Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe

AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/8/07 | Ben Evans - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Focus on the Family interview (to be posted in full Friday): http://listen.family.org/daily/

[Darkwolf377]

I'm sure those who castigate Rudy for his marital issues will come down just as hard on Newt.

[cripplecreek]

Unless he had an affair with an illegal alien I don't really care about that.

[Holicheese]

Did he lie about it?

[dhs12345]

Was the woman that he had an affair with someone who worked for him and was he sexually harassing her or giving preference to her as a subordinate employee and excluding other employees from the same special treatment and favors?

No?

Next.

[Jorge]

I'm sure those who castigate Rudy for his marital issues will come down just as hard on Newt.

Thou shalt not make demands of hypocrites.

[cgk]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair,

Nice continued AP spin. They refuse to admit it. I think it was about perjury by a sitting President ABOUT an affair, not the affair itself.

Gingrich: 'I sought God's forgiveness'

[dfwgator]

While I would prefer for politicians to be faithful, bear in mind, the worst President in our lifetime, Jimmy Carter, is a paragon of virtue in that area.

[zarf]

I'm sure those who castigate Rudy for his marital issues will come down just as hard on Newt..

I think the anger is proportional to how good looking the mistress is.

It is with me in any case.

[jwparkerjr]

And you might also ask did he carry on the affair while at work, in his office?

[bwteim]

FWIW, you don't really know that. He could have had sex with a rabbit.

[flashbunny]

"Clinton probe". Just sounds wrong.

[doc1019]

I love Gingrich and think that he would be a great president … however, he has so much negative baggage, he couldn’t be elected dogcatcher in any local election.

[Mr.Unique]

Did he lie about it?

That's built in to the whole "affair" thing.

[paulat]

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.

"Doesn't remember it?"

[spikeytx86]

That makes him a hypocrite. However, he was not the sitting president discussing with a senator troop deployments while having an intern preform fellatio on him.

Nice try AP.

[mylife]

It seems to me that most folks who are against Rudy are motivated largely by his political positions. His private life is just fuel to the fire.

Everyone knows that Newt was a cad as well in his private life, but politically? he was a conservative rock.

[Lancey Howard]

Gotta love Newt, but for President it ain't happening, never, period.