Newt should man up and apologize to his first two wives. Period. I don’t like it when men wimp out and use words such as “may have hurt”. How about, “I definitely hurt and I regret it.” Then people would move on. I believe this is called “unfinished business”.
I agree. However, how do you or I know whether or not he's done this? Maybe he's done it many times in private...and that's the point, isn't it? We're not electing a saint, were trying to elect a politician to take on and defeat Obama, and to get this country turned back onto the path that pretty much everyone here on FR knows we should be on. If it is a question of moral purity vs. the intelligence, knowledge and experience to lead this country well, I'll take the latter. Besides, when have we EVER had a morally perfect person in the WH (or Congress, or the Supreme Court, or as dog-catcher)? EVERYONE has something in their past that they're not proud of, that they'd do differently if they could rewind history. But we can't do that, we can only look forward and apply the lessons we've learned along the way.
Gingrich was right last night when he said that he was appalled that such a question would even be asked in a Presidential debate. It IS despicable.