Newt Gingrich: I’m not a hypocrite

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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?

[Vendome]

They should put it on pay per view. I pay $50 bucks to watch it.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, the Liberals keep harping on Clinton's adultery, when it was the fact that he lied under oath that got him impeached.

[fortheDeclaration]

Bingo!

[jenk]

Newt said he cares about America so much, he banged a couple of chicks. Putrid. He jumps in front of every popular movement, and then says crap like this.

[dixiechick2000]

Bump dat bit of truth!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Which was exactly what happened with Bob Dole.

[dearolddad]

Not being judgmental, but didn’t Newt take an Oath when he married number 1 and 2?

My question exactly.

How do we know he would take the presidential oath of office any more seriously?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

But you have to look at the entire situation - Even though he was being questioned about the Whitewater stuff and other questionable things, he lied about the affair - he lied to cover his azz about the affair. We couldn't get him for previous backroom dealings which would have taken down just about anyone else, or for being a pig in the Oval Office or for wasting his time chasing a 21 year old intern, as sleezy as that was. We had to go after him for the lying. Don't you feel if they could have charged him with the other items that they would have?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Ping to 88

[dixiechick2000]

Absolutely right!