Tom Delay Says His Adultery Different than Newt Gingrich's

[fightthegoodfightnow]

Source: The New Yorker

In the book, DeLay criticizes Gingrich for, among other things, conducting an affair with a Capitol Hill employee during the 1998 impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. (The woman later became Gingrich's third wife.) "Yes, I don't think that Newt could set a high moral standard, a high moral tone, during that moment," DeLay said. "You can't do that if you're keeping secrets about your own adulterous affairs." He added that the impeachment trial was another of his "proudest moments." The difference between his own adultery and Gingrich's, he said, "is that I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial. There's a big difference." He added, "Also, I had returned to Christ and repented my sins by that time."

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_goldberg?printable=true

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More moral relativity from the political right.

[babylonsister]

1. I didn't even know until just now he had committed adultery. Thanks,

bugman, for that fun little fact!

[spotbird]

17. Yuck.

What kind of woman....

[scarface2004]

26. me too....

he s blowing smoke, trying to make out like he s a cocksman or something!

[Canuckistanian]

27. Really! I'd never heard of it either

Am I Surprised?

No.

[Kurovski]

41. News to me, too.

I'm guessing the difference between the two could be measured in millimeters.

[roguevalley]

52. bwahahaha! Isn't it amazing that they believe Christianity has a

get out of hell free card?

[Frank Cannon]

54. First I heard of it

I'm sure there's no end to the rotting skeletons in his closet.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Is arrogance and hypocritical bullshit a sin?

Just sayin'. :shrug:

[pokercat999]

4. Don't know but being the bugman is a crime

against nature.

[Fenris]

3. Republicans have such a complex morality system.

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. They do, don't they?

I simply don't understand what he is saying here. Shit, adultery is adultery. What a hypocrite.

[Endangered Specie]

20. Actually its quite simple:

If I do it, its 'different'. Kind of like mass murderers.

[mac56]

47. It is very simple.

Republicans are less troubled by their own hypocrisy than normal people are.

[pscot]

53. It's called situational ethics

Repukes are experts on the topic.

[Mad_Dem_X]

57. Bingo. The same with abortion

Women who have abortions are whores and killers, but if I or my daughter have one, it's okay. :crazy:

[Sanity Claws]

5. Someone did it with him?

I'd love to see a picture of that chick. She's either blind or a Regent University graduate.

[spotbird]

18. or both

I'm getting a little queasy visualizing this..

[Fridays Child]

6. The way they twist...

Could anyone be fooled?

[Cha]

7. Who gives a shit, delay,

what upmanship you have over your tawdry fascist chumps?

[xxqqqzme]

8. wow, someone found roachman

appealing????
I didn't know he had strayed....Is it time for the stoning yet?

[Mz Pip]

9. What twisted logic

Sin all you want. It's okay as long as you stop before you condemn someone else for the same sin.

So repenting gives him the right to be a sanctimonious asshole. Jesus must be so proud.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[madamesilverspurs]

40. Hmmmmmm.....

Kinda reminds me of that story where Jesus stops them from stoning the woman caught in the act of adultery (you know the one, "He among you who is without sin, let him cast the first stone."). Jesus wasn't fooled for a second, He knew a setup when He saw one; even 2,000 years ago you couldn't commit adultery all by yourself. But then, He was also castigated for consorting with "publicans and sinners" -- is it possible, could it be that their presumptive heirs are "re-"publicans?

[Thor_MN]

49. Born again Publicans= Republican?

but wouldn't 'consorting with "republicans and sinners"' be redundant?

[Nedsdag]

10. This just proves the point

that politics is show business for ugly people.

Tom DeLay wouldn't have gotten the amount of action he received in congress that he would've received if he was an ordinary exterminator.

[D23MIURG23]

11. Delay: In this case I was the one doing it.

That means it wasn't a sin. Besides I was saved anyway.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray:

[Gman]

16. After all, at that time

Delay WAS the federal government, according to him which should count for something.

[DemBones DemBones]

12. I'm glad DeLay quit committing adultery and repented of his sins,

and Jesus did forgive a couple of adulterers, but I don't recall DeLay defending Clinton, who also repented, publicly, on national television. Why not speak up and support his fellow repentant sinner? I believe DeLay is a Southern Baptist, as Clinton is, so you'd think he might have had special empathy for a fellow Baptist sinner.

Nor do I think he has much of a point about the fact that Gingrich was still committing adultery at the time of the Clinton impeachment. One adulterer criticizing another adulterer is hypocritical.

Jesus said not to speak of the mote in your brother's eye until you got rid of the log in your own.

[BootinUp]

14. According to Southern Baptists

Clinton never did repent, and judging him is just fine too evidently.

[DemBones DemBones]

34. Then they need to read about Jesus stopping a mob of men

from stoning a woman to death for adultery. He said, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."

The men all realized they were not without sin themselves and put down the stones.

[Phredicles]

43. Anyone else suspect that if Jesus were saying that today,

Delay, Gingrish, Pat Robertson, et al., would immediately start hucking rocks? That's how unaware of themselves they all are.

[Frank Cannon]

55. Ah, but that's in the New Testament

These idiots have formed some sort of strange mishmash religion based mostly on the Old Testament, with whatever Paulian edicts they can pull out of the New Testament that will help back up their hypocrisy and bigotry. The four Gospels are pretty much shut out of their theology.

[maxrandb]

64. Yep! I call 'em "Old Testament Christians"

Saw a great bumper sticker once. It read; "You're Not Really a Christian if You Haven't Made it Past the Book of Leviticus"

[CBHagman]

28. Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.

and Jesus did forgive a couple of adulterers, but I don't recall DeLay defending Clinton, who also repented, publicly, on national television. Why not speak up and support his fellow repentant sinner? I believe DeLay is a Southern Baptist, as Clinton is, so you'd think he might have had special empathy for a fellow Baptist sinner.

Nor do I think he has much of a point about the fact that Gingrich was still committing adultery at the time of the Clinton impeachment. One adulterer criticizing another adulterer is hypocritical.

Jesus said not to speak of the mote in your brother's eye until you got rid of the log in your own.

Tom DeLay, pundit Lawrence Kudlow, and their ilk are very like Joseph in the novel Wuthering Heights, placing all the Bible's blessings on themselves and the curses on their enemies -- not exactly the way of the Gospel. They obviously missed the bits you read, DemBones, or find them...inconvenient.

Upcoming sequel: A Tree grows in DeLay.

[DemBones DemBones]

Thanks, CB. It seems that many conservatives need to

pay more attention to the New Testament, particularly the Gospels, if they claim to follow Christ.

If you really want to know "What Would Jesus Do?" the answers are in the Gospels, in what Jesus said.

[DemBones DemBones]

36. Double post -- deleted

Silly laptop has its quirks.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

38. Amen

I agree. In fact, if you follow the example of Christ, DeLay should have come to Clinton's defense not unlike what Christ did when the mob was trying to stone the prostitutes and it was Christ who defended them when he said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." (Not a biblical scholar, but I believe that is the story.)

[pinto]

13. Oy. Adultery is OK as long as you're not impeaching a President at the time?

Clears that up.

:wtf:

[Mz Pip]

15. Gingrich/DeLay

That's a ticket for the Repugs in '08!

Do they get, even a little bit how ridiculous they sound? Two pieces of scum who apparently think with their dicks while they have their heads up their asses.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[opihimoimoi]

21. Ewwww Tom was sucking Toes on an ole granma??....ewwwwwww

[Kagemusha]

22. "My adultery is holier than yours."

Big man you are, Tom.

[Jack Rabbit]

23. Tell me agin this was about lying and not sex.

I still won't believe it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

24. Did he say that Newt snores?

[pinkpops]

33. He said Newt has sores

[ryanmuegge]

25. Christ was more concerned with greedy scammers in the temple than with adulterers.

Take note, DeLay.

[Neshanic]

29. Serial Christian. Baby Jesus gives do overs, and overs and overs.

[Paladin]

30. Further Proof Of The Notion......

....that pretty much anybody can get laid........

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Now you've made Baby Jesus' brain hurt. nt

[acmavm]

32. These guys, all covered in mud, trying to justify how their dirt is different,

better, than the other guys dirt.

This just cracks me up. Repubics are so fucked up.

[heliarc]

35. Returned to Christ... sure...

That solves everything. <sarcasm> I'm not sure why he's so obsessed with being exonerated for this... Shouldn't be he be justifying one of his more heinous crimes like Gerrymandering the F*&^CK out of everything.

[Tekla West]

37. As was said to another Repub was once told

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

And, it's still true.

How come he's not in jail? (Either of them. both them them really)

[BrklynLiberal]

39. What an absolute schmuck.

[DemGa]

42. But...but...they accuse Dems of relativism

Ah well, projection is the Republican way.

[Virginian]

44. Those exact words could have also been said by Clinton.

The difference between his own adultery and Gingrich's, he said, "is that I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial. There's a big difference." He added, "Also, I had returned to Christ and repented my sins by that time."

The thing between Big Dawg and Monica was over by then. Didn't Reverend (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Billy Graham or some famous religious leader) drop by for some moral counseling to help the President return to Christ and repent his sins?

[medlakeguy]

45. Hey for 10 bucks

I can hire a guy named jesus to forgive my sins!

[Virginian]

56. Less than that if

You look for him down at the day labor site.

Since they do jobs "Americans don't want to do", he'll even forgive Tom DeLay and George Bush.

[JI7]

46. who is having sex with these scumbags ? didn't Delay go to Mexico for underage

girls that he paid for ? fucking scumbag.

stupid motherfuckers. "my adultery isn't as bad"

[Vinca]

48. Are these guys counting blow-up dolls as adultery???

Just wondering. The imagery is the stuff of nightmares.

[Raine]

50. Oh sure, yeah OK

"Christians aren't perfect they're forgiven" so there really was nothing wrong with it. :sarcasm: :eyes: Seems to me it would be something to brag about though if you hadn't done it in the first place, but what do I know I'm not holier than thou. :shrug:

[AngryOldDem]

51. Well, damn, he REPENTED!

That excuses everything. Big difference, my big ass.

[LynneSin]

58. This is why I do not believe in the concept of "Born Again Christian"

It's a total bullshit concept that assholes like Delay use in claiming that "He repented".

You're either a Christian (which I am) or you're not a Christian. It is possible that you were originally a different religion like Jew or Muslim but switched to Christianity. But 'Born Again' is crap - either you believe or you don't, there is no perhaps

[wordpix]

66. he is a "Laid Again" Christian

[KansDem]

59. Bush still says US people supports him in Iraq and Delay explains his adultery is better than Newt's

They're delusional. After awhile, you just don't want to hear or see them anymore; after awhile, you just don't believe them anymore.

They're like the refrigerator in the kitchen: the motor comes on now and then...you hear it but you really don't pay any attention to it. They're like that kind of noise in the background, just humming along.

[JPZenger]

60. He Was Known as "Hot Tub Tom"

In his days in the Texas legislature, Delay was well-known for his wild hot tub parties. I know that thought turns our stomachs, but sometimes we need to face the ugly truth.

[wordpix]

67. ooooohhh---do TELL---HotTub Tom, hahahaha, puke, hahaha, puke

:puke: :rofl: I am puking at the same time as LMAO that someone would get in a hot tub with tub o' lard Bugman.

[CRH]

61. They both did a good job of screwing the average American, from sea to shining sea. n/t

[bamacrat]

62. Bet its different from anyone who ever cheated

he was duped into doing it.

[Joey Liberal]

63. Republicans are an amusing lot....................n/t

[wordpix]

65. all I can say is thank god for Larry Flynt who uncovered such Congressional sins

thus preventing Clinton's trial in the Senate over the "high crime" of getting a blowjob from an intern.
:puke: