Why do you automatically assume that the ex-wife is telling the truth?
I don't.
The problem is that two days before the South Carolina primary, it is probably too late to rebut what she said. Furthermore, this new accusation is in line with a pattern of prior bad behavior by Gingrich.
Gingrich certainly should have known this was coming. I suspect he has a battle plan prepared. The trouble is no matter what he says, it will almost certainly sound horrible.... either insincere false repentance that should have been said years ago, or meanspirited attacks on his ex-wife, bringing out dirty laundry.
We'll see how he (and Callista) respond. I grant that Gingrich is brilliant, so maybe he has an idea how to solve this. I can't imagine what it could be.
317 posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:10:37 PM by mnehring: “Call me when we are voting for a Pope. At least, unlike Clinton, Newts screwing wasnt screwing the legal system and public. Considering the country is getting screwed, might as well get someone who has first hand experience in that.”
I'm well aware we aren't voting for a religious leader. If we were, I wouldn't have supported Ronald Reagan. I've voted for numerous candidates in the past for federal, state and local office who would not be considered as a candidate for elder in my church or in some cases even allowed to be a church member.
That's not the point.
I said this on a different thread: “We cannot let the Republican Party turn into something comparable to conservative parties in Europe where gross immorality in the leaders of Italy and France is not just tolerated and winked at but actually considered to be no big deal, and just something powerful men do.
The stakes are too high. We're already seeing Freepers seriously argue that Gingrich's past adulteries are a private matter between him and his wife. That is not true. And it should not be something said by conservatives.
Nominating Gingrich, under current circumstances, will enable the worst segments of secular conservative politics. It will show the American electorate that the conservative wing of the Republican Party turned against three men (Romney, Perry and Santorum) who as far as anyone can tell, never cheated on their wives and were faithful to the teachings of their respective churches, and decided instead to back a serial adulterer and put him up against a Democrat whose politics are poison but who appears to have a stable marriage.
In my book, that is too much to lose.”