Gingrich advisers resign from campaign

On Thursday, an announcement came forward from Newt Gingrich's nascent presidential campaign that several of his advisors were resigning from his team.

Campaign spokesman Rick Tyler, campaign manager Rob Johnson, co-chairman and former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, and several other strategists announced they were leaving Gingrich's team, citing a difference in the direction that they wished to take the campaign. Gov. Perdue has already announced that he will be joining a rival GOP campaign - that of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The others may soon follow suit in joining rival campaigns, especially is Gov. Rick Perry of Texas decides to enter the race.

Gingrich has been at odds with conservatives for some time. He had announced his campaign very early this year, but has not gained much traction, especially as other candidates have begun entering the field. More recently, he has criticized Republican efforts on Medicare funding and budget reform, on environmental matters, and on fighting against the healthcare bill known as Obama-care.

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Back in 1998, Newt Gingrich was having a helluva lot of fun attacking the moral shortcomings of then-President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

As Speaker of the House, Gingrich led the charge to oust Clinton from office. The ensuing impeachment proceedings were baldly partisan, but Gingrich had been doing his best to paint the Democratic party as a pack of anti-family sinners since the early '90s. During the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Gingrich used Woody Allen as an example of the average Dem.

"Woody Allen having nonincest with a nondaughter to whom he was a nonfather because they were a nonfamily fits the Democratic platform perfectly."

Ouch.

But what Newt wasn't telling people in 1998 was that Clinton wasn't the only one seeing other women. Gingrich himself was cheating on his wife of 17 years, Marianne Ginther, during the proceedings.

It turns out Mr. Family Values had been seeing Callista Bisek, a woman 23 years his junior, behind his wife's back. But that's OK. You see Gingrich would make an honest woman of Bisek in the end. In 2000, Gingrich divorced Marianne, and married his third wife, Callista.

But Newt doesn't think any of this is hypocrtical (ABC News). He says Clinton was in the wrong because he committed perjury by lying under oath about the Lewinsky affair during the Paula Jones sexual harrassment proceedings. Never mind that Newt had no issues with attacking Clinton on purely ethical grounds, at least he didn't perjure himself.

"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," he said, arguing that Clinton had "deliberately committed perjury.http://www.zimbio.com/America%27s+50+Most+Scandalous+Political+Scandals/articles...