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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think there is a lot more screwing around in Washington than people think
I don't think Newty screwing around behind his wife is an exception. They way he did it and how he treated them is loathsome as well as the hypocracy of the impeachment was despicable. I just don't think his sexual activity was uncommon among folks in Congress.
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)But I've been making fun of Newt since I was a teen in Georgia. It's not just habit - it's entertainment.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I'm also convinced that they use the dirt they collect on each other to coerce their peers and associates into toeing the line
gateley
(62,683 posts)think they're invincible. Weiner comes to mind.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)rhiannon55
(2,671 posts)all the way to impeachment for blow jobs. And Newt was fucking Callista the whole time and trying to get Marianne to say it was okay. What a nasty, evil hypocrite. I despised him then and I despise him even more now.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)they will not cross or conviction they will stay with.
Santorum has conviction but it is twisted around his very bad interpretation of Christianity. His dogmatism can cause mass destruction. This dogmatism has controlled the actions of believers before that has led to horrific actions during the Crusades of the middle ages or the Roman and Spanish Inquisition. When a national leader brings his strict religious mores into government through laws and prosecution a free society is squashed.
In short.They are all very bad. Sorry but to talk of Newt you have to point out that there is no one running on their side that is worthy to even be in government let alone to be our leader.
TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)Sex is fun. I'd rather spend my free time having copious amounts of sex than hanging out in the woods waiting to shoot at some deer. I'd rather get laid than watch some 300 pound men chasing each other around a field. Give me a choice between listening to a sermon or some horizontal mambo and - you guessed it - ride 'em cowboy! Now if I was a politician and had to deal with people telling me to keep the government's hands off their Medicare, complain about taxes when their job/healthcare/pension are government funded and show up all flipped out because a black man was elected president, I'd be looking for a lot of bedroom action.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)What else is new?
quakerboy
(13,920 posts)Nor is the hypocrisy.
no_hypocrisy
(46,158 posts)Wags were sharing rumors that he married his wife, Rachel, while she was still married to her first husband, thus engaging in the crime of bigamy. (Jackson blamed the premature death of his wife on the stress of the being shunned by Society due to the rumors.) Decades later when Jackson was in the White House, he came to the defense of the wife of his Secretary of War, Peggy Eaton, who faced similar "scandal".
http://www.academicamerican.com/jeffersonjackson/topics/eaton.htm
yardwork
(61,698 posts)Yes, Newt is a vile hypocrite. But going back to Clinton, if he had not lied on TV by vehemently waving his finger at us and insisting that he "did not have sex with that woman" then we probably never would have heard of the blue dress. If Clinton had simply answered that kangaroo court grand jury the way that Newt did at the debate in SC the other day, that particular issue would have died. Not that Newt and the Republicans wouldn't have hounded Clinton for a zillion other made-up things. Cause that's what Republicans do.
spanone
(135,858 posts)even when he's caught.