Let me be clear, in theory I do not care about anyone’s personal proclivities as long as it has no impact on me. That said, Republicans have constantly tried to use one’s morality as litmus test for political office and specifically for the presidency.
Gingrich make a joke out of that tenet. He broke his marriage vows twice which in his supposed point of view relative to his attack during Clinton’s peccadillo should make him ineligible. Worst of all is how he did it. It simply seem that he does not believe in sticking around if the “lady” gets sick. What ever happened to “in sickness or health”. This is the one that gives me the most disdain for this man.
I have a wife with Lupus and I know the pain she has been through. It happened relatively early in our marriage and because of many of her disabilities, including permanent loss of hear, the inability to go on very sunny vacations, and just an outright unpredictable disease I know sometimes she felt like a burden. A man who allows that feeling flourish needs help. A man who leaves because of the illness is evil, unkind, and immoral.
I hope the mainstream media does its job as they seem to do when a liberal is in a similar situation and ensure this man’s full story is revealed.
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Newt Gingrich Opens Up About His Lady Problems
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Serial presidential campaign flirter Newt Gingrich doesn’t just have problems — dating back 16 years — committing to a run for the White House. For even longer, Gingrich has basically been thinking about forming an exploratory committee into monogamy, a situation that has now left him in the position where his potential first lady would actually be his third.
Today, Maggie Haberman details Gingrich’s interview with the Christian Broadcast Network, where he admits that he was doing "things that were wrong," in his married life. And yet he makes it sound like he was doing those things because of forces well beyond his control!
"There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate," Gingrich told CBN’s David Brody, in an interview taped at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition and posted online Tuesday night.
"And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn’t trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them," Gingrich said. "I found that I felt compelled to seek God’s forgiveness. Not God’s understanding, but God’s forgiveness.
I think it’s absolutely first-rate that Gingrich didn’t demand understanding from God, given that this is all very hard to understand. All Gingrich can tell you, about that time he left his cancer-stricken wife for another lady who became the multiple sclerosis-stricken wife he left for his current mistress-turned-wife is that he "was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them," possibly because he "worked too hard" because he felt "passionately … about this country."
Think about that, America: Newt Gingrich did all of those things because he loved you so very much! And when things got tough for America, he didn’t leave us for New Zealand or Ecuador or Portugal, as if we were some woman. Gingrich stuck by America, and if the pressure of our demands got to be so great that it forced him to philander from time to time, then maybe we need to take responsibility for that.
When Gingrich left Marianne for his current wife, Callista, here’s how he explained the situation to his second wife:
She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. "’I can’t handle a Jaguar right now.’ He said that many times. ‘All I want is a Chevrolet.’"
He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
