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To: Catholicguy
He is nowhere near the leader Newt is. I want a strong House Speaker. But since Newt's private life isn't perfect, we hounded him out of office in favor of a wimp. But the moralists are happy. These are the same folks who are in a snit because Kissinger is heading a 9/11 committee but does not fit their agenda in areas having nothing to do with the job at hand. They are also the folks who were outraged to find some homosexuals are working in the Justice Department, as if a person's sex life has something to do with their suitability for government work, never mind the basic fact that we all have to work for a living.
479 posted on 12/02/2002 5:03:20 PM PST by gcruse
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To: gcruse
But since Newt's private life isn't perfect, we hounded him out of office in favor of a wimp.

Check your history, bud -- It was Bob Livingston who was hounded out of succession for Speaker because of his extramarital affair, which Larry Flynt brought to light with the House vote on impeachment looming.

Newt fired himself as Speaker days after the disastrous November 1998 election left the GOP with a sliver-thin majority, almost completely undoing the gains made by Republicans after Newt's popular "Contract With America." He had already been weakened by the 1996 not-quite-censure and $300,000 fine he was assessed for ethics violations.

Rumors of his previous adultery were well-known before his resignation, and while doubtless some knew of his diddling with a staffer, his leaving his wife for her had nothing to do with his demise.

480 posted on 12/02/2002 5:15:18 PM PST by L.N. Smithee
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To: gcruse; Catholicguy
These are the same folks who are in a snit because Kissinger is heading a 9/11 committee but does not fit their agenda in areas having nothing to do with the job at hand.

If you think its OK to appoint a man who has orchestrated the mass export of abortion as national security foreign policy, resulting in literally millions of innocents being ripped from their mother's wombs worldwide, to any post whatsoever in a pro-life Republican president's administration, that is your opinion, to which you are entitled.

But even if your standards have fallen this low, don't expect conservatives to stay silent over this travesty.

482 posted on 12/02/2002 8:31:34 PM PST by Polycarp
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To: gcruse
"as if a person's sex life has something to do with their suitability for government work"

So you had no problem with Clinton's antics. I see.

493 posted on 12/03/2002 8:13:51 AM PST by MEGoody
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