[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.

[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.

[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'

[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.

[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.

[Lancey Howard]

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

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

An example of being unwilling to hear what is really said:

Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.

"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "

[Old_Mil]

The mainstream media doesn't want a guy like Gingrich or those who share his views to be president. The mainstream media wants someone like Hillary or a Republican who shares her views to be president.

Hmmmm.

[mdittmar]

Kinda early for the old media to bring that up;)

[KoRn]

I really like Newt, but his having an affair while he was going after Clinton for something similar just reeks of hypocrisy. Even if one said the difference between Newt and Clinton was perjury, that still leaves him in very bad company. I tend to not really make my political decisions on personal moral issues, but hypocrisy is something I have very little tolerance for.

[El Gato]

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, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

So, was Gingrich affair with a subordinate, a much younger subordinate at that.

Besides the impeachment was not about the affair itself, but about lying under oath about it, in connection with an entirely separate "affair" involving yet another subordinate who BJ sexually harassed.

[atomicpossum]

How old is that headline, exactly?

[msnimje]

It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, having an affair while you are in a marriage with children is a serious character flaw.

Newt does himself no favors by saving he knew it was wrong while he was doing it.

I have liked Newt since he was my congressman but this cannot be ignored because people who are unethical in one area of their lives are often unethical in others.

[Jo Nuvark]

So. It's not like he lied to a Grand Jury.

[Dead Dog]

Duh. Of course Xlinton's impeachment had nothing to do with sex, and Gingrich didn't suborn purjery...but that is the fine print.

[Non-Sequitur]

People talk about Giuliani's record of failure at marraige and how the conservative Christian movement has a problem with that. Gingrich's history is just as bad.

[Dawgreg]

Well, while Newt was having an affair, Bubba was probing Monica so what's worse? They're both bad but a segment of society still hold's Clintoon in high esteem.....(usually the one's that are as disgusting as he is).