Sure to make the moonbats happy is the revelation that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had an affair during the time of the Clinton impeachment hearings.
Not to be a stickler for facts (oh, hell, who am I fooling?), but it wasn't the fact Clinton was having an affair while president that got him impeached. He was impeached because he lied under oath and obstructed justice. On a more personal level, he tried to use the power of the presidency to prevent a U.S. citizen from having her day in court.
I realize to the "it's just about sex" crowd that this will give them comfort and another clip for their "Republicans are hypocrites" file. But given that impeachment wasn't "about sex" but about lying--something you'd think Dems would be concerned about, given their delight in the Scooter Libby trial--the revelation about Gingrich doesn't do a thing to exonerate Clinton at all. It actually just makes me disgusted with both of them.
Captain Ed says Gingrich is airing the dirty laundry early in the hope that it will limit any damage to his political chances.
Gingrich, like Rudy Giuliani, has had two divorces and three marriages. John McCain has been divorced once. Only Mitt Romney, alone among GOP frontrunners, has remained married to the same woman. This contrasts sharply with the Democratic leaders in the 2008 race; neither Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, nor John Edwards have had a divorce.
It's an interesting dilemma. Everybody has known that the Clinton marriage was a sham forever, but it is a sham still in effect. And what's not to love about a trial lawyer who can buy you a house the size of Rhode Island?
Republicans need to spend more time recruiting family values people who haven't got as many divorces as Elizabeth Taylor. Unless, of course, they don't really care about such matters, which would make the Democratic noise machine correct,and who wants that?
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