NEWT NOT WORTHY OF THE PRESIDENCY

boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/17/07 | bob Lonsberry

[ishabibble]

PRO ABORTION...NO
PRO HOMOSEXUAL...NO
PRO CUT AND RUN...HELL NO!

First, we ignore all the fake conservatives...

[TBP]

Where is Bill Paxon from?

Upstate New York. He's married to Susan Molinari, who was the representative from Staten Island after her dad, Guy, had it. Although Susan is a pro-abort, both are better than most of the people we have in Congress now. Paxon would be a great person for teh NY Republicans to run for Governor or Senator, but he is too conservative for the Rockefeller Republican Establishment and besides, I think both of them burned out on public office.

[ex-snook]

Nix to Newt the fakeroot.

[Wuli]

I have continued to believe that Newt’s best contribution to the party remains as a political strategist.

He would make a good national campaign manager for someone.

[Zack Nguyen]

Newt Gingrich was raking him over the coals for having semi-sex with a subordinate.

p> People keep saying this, but my recollection is very different. I recall Newt tepidly mentioning it on a few occasions, and then doing everything he could to avoid it. Yet this was all Republicans wanted to hear about. Thus they did not turn out to vote, Republicans lost, and Newt quit before he could be unseated as Speaker.

[Texas_shutterbug]

It’s not about divorce. It’s about adultery and hypocracy.

[dighton]

“While she was on the government payroll under him.” / No pun intended?

Said the beautiful Magda Lupescu,
As she came to Roumania’s rescue,
“It’s a wonderful thing
To live under a King—
Is democracy better, I esk you?”

— Anonymous.

[Midtowngirl]

Remember this name: Bill Paxon. Bill Paxon was my congressman. He was the nuts-and-bolts guy behind the Republican Revolution

I remember his name well. Susan Molinari was MY congresswoman and the scandal surrounding his disloyalty to her destroyed her career too. As I recall, he turned out to be gay and he left her with two children to raise on her own. If Newt helped get rid of Mr. Paxon, I say "Way to go, Newt>"

[april15Bendovr]

I worry about Newt after he stated that Chuck E. Cheese Schumer was a brilliant man. I did all I could keeping my lunch from regurgitating.

[eleni121]

I like listening to Bob...will read later.

[Caprine]

Lonsberry is playing fast and loose with facts. Paxon had other issues that literally drove him out of office. I don’t want to be the one to spread rumors, so I’m not going to repeat them. Plus, Paxon was my congressman and I adored him and his adorable wife, Susan Molinari. I miss them both and wish that they had both stayed in public office.
But, Lonsberry is way off on the reasons why Paxon has retreated into the background. Maybe Lonsberry doesn’t know or maybe he’s just doing what he frequently does - shooting from the lip with blank ammunition. I’m no big fan of Lonsberry. He’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. And in this case, he’s unfairly smearing Newt.

[I. Ben Hurt]

So, are Susan Molinari and Bill Paxon still married or not?

[Cicero]

I don’t know how accurate this is, but I do know that Newt started going back on his promises toward the end of his time in congress. He did a great job getting the Republicans into power, and they did some great work in the early days, but it was downhill from there. I was thoroughly disillusioned with him by the end, and that disillusionment was completely apart from his marital problems. Clinton hammered him and he caved in, to put it briefly.

[shortstop]

“I remember his name well. Susan Molinari was MY congresswoman and the scandal surrounding his disloyalty to her destroyed her career too. As I recall, he turned out to be gay and he left her with two children to raise on her own. “

Try Googling Molinari, Paxon, divorce, gay and a few other words. What you will find is that the only mention of Paxon being gay are from left wing whacko gay blogs. The only mention of divorce is that Molinari was divorced once before. Looks like they are still married and have two kids. Other than the whackos, do you have info to the contrary, or are you spreading hearsay?

[CaptainK]

Left wingnuts were trying to tie Paxton to Brit Humes’s son. Their relationship being the reason he committed suicide. The rumor died a quick death.

Personally, I avoid the DU when looking for reliable information.

[Politicalmom]

No, that was his first wife. He then married his mistress, and dumped HER after she got MS by calling her at her mother’s 84th birthday party.

[TBP]

Accrding to Wikipedia they are. Not the best source in the world, but it’s something.

[ReignOfError]

So Reagan got divorced the “right” way and Newt got divorced the “wrong” way. OK, fine. Whatever makes people feel better.

Divorce isn't the issue. Infidelity is. How importantly someone considers oaths is pretty damn important in choosing a president.

Reagan divorced Jane Wyman in 1948 and met Nancy Davis in 1951. Ron and Nancy remained married, and by all accounts very much in love, for a half-century.

Newt, on the other hand, had wife #2 lined up long before he left #1, and #3 lined up long before he left #2. Callista would be well-advised to remember the words of Oscar Wilde: "When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy,"

Divorce isn't much of an issue any more. Folks sometimes marry too young and hastily, so I'm inclined -- as I believe most Americans are --to let them take a Mulligan on a first marriage. But a pattern of hopping from one bed to another raises serious questions of character, and that's one issue Newt (and Rudy Giuliani) won't shake easily.

[rhombus]

Fine, you specified “the right way”. I hope it made you feel better.

[ReignOfError]

While she was on the government payroll under him.

No pun intended?

I'm sure it was fully intentional. With phrases like "playing the flugelhorn with Harmonica Lewinsky" and "the aptly-named Dick Armey," it's clear that Lonsberry likes his zingers, and there's no way that one snuck in by accident.