Newt Gingrich's serial adultery makes him better than you
source: http://tinyurl.com/7wrqg44
And I think most people can identify, either with themselves or with loved ones, that life has moments that are very sad, you wish wouldn’t have occurred. And you look back on them and you seek forgiveness for not having done everything you could have.
Ah, the classic "mistakes were made" passive voice, a staple of Republican rationalizations. Newt sure wishes that whole "ditching his wife when she got sick and something younger and hotter came along"—TWICE!—thing hadn't occurred, but hey, whatcha gonna do? Sometimes these things happen. And it makes Newt sad. Especially when he looks back and realizes he didn't do everything he could have done to not cheat on his sick wife wives......
And here is where Newt turns his decades of moral failings into a reason to vote for him. You see, being a serial adulterer just makes him more normal than, say, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, who've only had one wife apiece, which is, you know, not very normal of them. After all, as Rush Limbaugh said last week, who doesn't have an "angry ex-spouse" or two hanging around, giving bitter interviews on national TV?
So what's the take-home message here? Sure, Newt Gingrich may have spent his entire adult life personally trying to destroy the sanctity of marriage, but (a) he's sorry that happened, and (b) it just makes him a better, more normal person anyway.
Oh, and (c) those people who are oh-so-concerned about protecting the sanctity of their definition of marriage? Like a certain national organization that congratulated Newt on his South Carolina victory last Saturday? Yeah, they're completely 100 percent full of shit. Frankly.
http://tinyurl.com/7wrqg44
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Milieu
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"Speaking about the breakup of the marriage for the first time, Marianne Gingrich tells Esquire's John H. Richardson that her former husband lied to the public when he insisted they had an "understanding" about the affair. She says Gingrich tried to convince her to "tolerate" his relationship with Bisek, but she refused.
Just before the pair separated, Gingrich delivered a speech in Pennsylvania about family values. "How do you give that speech and do what you're doing?" she asked him. "It doesn't matter what I do," Gingrich replied, according to his ex-wife. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/gingrich-considers-2012-run-ex-wife-talks-bre...
- 4 months ago
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Milieu
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LOrion
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...also from comments: "Newt and Mitt went into a bar
Mitt bet Newt $10,000 he could pick up a chick faster than Newt could ...
[continued in Saturday's Let's Write a Novel series]" - 4 months ago
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LOrion
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LOrion
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from comments to date: 1) Damn, so I can't run for office unless I get
divorced first by philandering around? And my wife, or my X (got to be cool and use the 'X') as the media would refer to her, would have to get all bitter about it?
Damn, no wonder there are so few good Republican candidates. The bar is just too high. They're lucky Newt stepped in to fill the void. - 4 months ago
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LOrion
