[randita]

Coulter became a darling of conservatives during the Clinton scandals leading to impeachment.

She and Drudge delivered a brilliant one-two punch to Clinton on Drudge’s Sunday night radio show and short lived TV show.

Ann is being consistent in holding Gingrich to the same standards to which she held Clinton and has found Gingrich lacking.

By hitching their wagons to Gingrich, conservatives do give up the high ground on issues relating to marital fidelity and trust (not even getting into the Fannie Mae and ethics stuff) and whether foibles in those areas DO impact eligibility to hold high office.

The mantra of Democrats during the Clinton scandals was “we don’t care what he did in his private life as long as he pushes for the issues important to us.”

That’s pretty much become the mantra of Gingrich supporters. I hope his supporters realize the box they’re putting themselves into.

[Ohioan]

While I have written a current piece, Pseudo Pragmatism, in large part as a challenge to Gingrich's near hysterical approach to the Iranian problem, I have deliberately not referred to him by name in the article. It is my hope that he will see his errors, and correct them. Thus, I will still defend him against what seems a mistaken attack in another direction.

We have got to tone down the rhetoric among Conservatives, aimed at other Republicans--Reagan's 11th Commandment--so that we can come together at some point, this year, against the common enemy of all traditional Americans. Now, your attack on Gingrich with respect to his personal life, makes the same mistake that he, himself, made in 1998, while still in Congress, by focusing on Clinton's personal life, in the impeachment hearings, rather than on his Abuse Of Power.

The approach showed the wrong emphasis, and it clearly backfired, making Clinton seem a sympathetic victim of overly zealous & judgmental people, trying to dictate private conduct. The focus should have been on his attack, as President, on the moral values of the people, as in his trying to change the military to reflect his personal assexual agenda. (What Clinton did as a consensual adult was trivial compared to what he was trying to do to America.)

We need to focus the fire, today, on Obama & the Obamination, not join personal vendettas against any of the Republican candidates. (That does not mean that we cannot express our disagreements with those candidates, just try to keep them as civil as possible. Public stands are always relevant. Unless you have walked in another person's shoes, their private lives should be respected as just that, "private.")

William Flax