You know what, I spent the better part of a decade talking about the dalliances of Bill Clinton. Did I have private access to all those women? No. It was still clear to me that Clinton was unfit to be president, based on this alone.
I haven’t said that about Newt, but I do have grave concerns about his fitness to be president.
I’m not convinced by any stretch of the imagination that I want him representing me from the White House.
Are ABC and other networks above criticism for taking Newt to task on this? No. It still seems to me like the real criticism of the media should be why it didn’t cover Clinton and doesn’t cover Obama like this, rather than damning them for covering Newt like this.
Newt’s tactic of saying he’s not going to say critical things of his ex-wife, while sounding admirable, also presents a situation where he will never have to answer if he did this or not.
Should it matter? Should it have mattered when it was Bill
Clinton? Should it matter if Obama were guilty of certain things.
Folks, it seems to me that we are walking on very shakey ground if we try to dismiss all this on the grounds all people make mistakes, and it’s been over ten years.
Are we willing to excuse all things Clinton or Obama on those tenets? If so, that means we can’t even talk about Clinton and Carter’s presidency any longer.
I agree, and I really think it comes down to what the explanation is and whether he’s being truthful about it. Clinton was a scumbag for getting BJs in the Oval Office while on the phone with God-knows-who, and that was probably the most innocent thing he did (Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broderick anyone?). Not to mention his subsequent perjury which led to his impeachment and disbarment.
If this is simply a guy asking his wife for an open marriage, I gotta say, I don’t really care. Not all sex scandals are created equal, regardless of what the Obama Media want you to think. I view this the same as I did with Herman Cain—if he’s honest and up-front about it, fine. If he starts bending over backwards to lie about it and obfuscate the issue, then he needs to step aside.
I don’t recall Slick Willy repenting, converting, and seeking forgiveness.
I’ve said many, many times that Newt has baggage. Some of the things he’s done are indefenseable. He is gonna have to sell himself to the public and let them weigh what he has done against what kind of man people think he is today. Evidently you have made ur and decision and I respect that.
Character does matter, that is one of the things people will have to weigh for themselves.
True there a some similarities between the Bill and Newt but there are also some major differeces. Newt has been contrite, has asked for forgiveness, and given his life to Christ,that means a lot some us. Does that make him perfect? No...! It makes him human.
Clinton was never contrite. He fought, lied, and denied the things he had done to the very end. The man even lied under oath.
None of us is morally pure and neither is Newt. If you are looking for that perfect, moral candidate, you’ll never find him on this side of heaven. That’s life and that’s all we have.