Posted on 03/27/2011 8:56:41 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Newt Gingrich: I’m not a hypocrite - POLITICO Live: Newt Gingrich: I’m not a hypocrite March 27, 2011
Newt Gingrich: I’m not a hypocrite
Pressed on “Fox News Sunday” about his adulterous past, Newt Gingrich said it was not hypocritical for him to impeach Bill Clinton while he cheated on his own wife because he never lied under oath.
“I don’t know what you would have had me do,” he said, getting a little testy, “because…the president of the United States [was] committing perjury. Remember, he’s a lawyer! This was not some accidental thing. And I thought the outcome was about right.”
The all-but-official candidate for the Republican presidential nomination granted that his own extramarital affairs will be an issue in the coming campaign, but he sounded hopeful that voters will, if they don’t forgive or forget, at least look the other way.
“We’ll find out six months or a year from now whether people are forgiving and whether they put in context events that are 10 and 15 years old,” Gingrich said.
The former House speaker from Georgia said it didn’t bother him that he was throwing rocks at Clinton as president while living in his own metaphorical glass house. He said he would have resigned his leadership post if he didn’t think he could go after Clinton for breaking the law.
“It’s not about personal behavior, and it’s not about what he did in the Oval Office,” Gingrich said of his failed 1998 effort to destroy Clinton. “You can condemn that. You can say it’s totally inappropriate. It was about a much deeper and more profound thing: Does the president of the United States have to obey the law?
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You are also not presidential material, Mr. Gingrich.
Forget it, Newt.
Save your money.
Get used to it, Newt. They are not going to let this go.
He may be correct, I lean more to ignorant hypocrite.
What a shame Newt...but I don’t need 6 months. We need a strong Conservative to run...and you ain’t it. Sorry Mitt, Romney Care will be a issue...bed made, sleep in it! I still wonder why we are having these issues, when its time to find one conservative.
No they won’t because Newt is a Republican. If he was a Democrat, e.g. Bill Clinton, it would never be brought up unless by a Republican opponent.
I'm an adulterer. Get it straight.
Newt, if you want Executive experience, why don’t you run for Governor of Georgia? You’ve got a lot of management skills and your historical perspective is first rate. You’re just not major league material anymore. And that is a shame.
Not being judgmental, but didn’t Newt take an Oath when he married number 1 and 2?
There is no way I'm looking away from his serial marriages and cheating constantly creature. The only thing that would be worse for this schmuck would be if I found out that he paid some of his floozies money for an abortion.....would not put it past him. He has absolutely no character or honor.
Newt is damaged goods.
Stop your fundraising. You're sucking money that a viable candidate could use to defeat Obama.
Re's,
Glenn
Or, selfish, would be spoiler, elitist double crosser,..... perfect DemoRat qualifications.
Maybe at 67, the old zipper doesn't bulge the way it used to, hence he's "matured". But "trust and rely on? Not enough that he cheated on and divorced one wife, but two?? Go away, Newt.
I honestly think Newt’s cynical and yes, hypocritical religious coattail-hopping will be more of an issue. Somebody was counting their amnesty chickens before they hatched, imho.
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