Gingrich Admits To Cheating On Wife While Touting Family Values During Clinton Impeachment

[kpete]

Run time: 04:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3OpPk-F6k   Posted on YouTube: July 13, 2010 By YouTube Member: FoxNewsChannel Views on YouTube: 4086   Posted on DU: August 09, 2010 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 669

 


Gingrich trying to come clean on the whole three wives, adultery thing
by John Aravosis (DC) on 8/09/2010 10:20:00 AM
Remember, in Gingrich-land marriage is the sacred union of one man and three women.

But I'm sure it was all a youthful indiscretion in his 50s. Just because he lied and cheated while holding a public trust then in no way suggests that he'd lie and cheat while holding a public trust now.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/gingrich-admits-cheating-wife-while-t
http://www.americablog.com/2010/08/gingrich-trying-to-come-clean-on-whole.html

[DrDan]

1. ??? - I did not hear any admission

[Dhalgren]

2. Think you have the wrong video linked

:hi:

[2 Much Tribulation]

3. It's the same video linked at crooksandliars that has additional Gingrich quotes supporting OP title

Gingrich appears to be engaging in a Golden Rule violation of not extending unto others the mercy and lack of judgmental-ness that he clearly reserves for himself.

When combined with other such examples from DC especially, it bespeaks a two-class system where politicians in fact behave like everyone else (or somewhat worse, but in the same vein) but nevertheless play gotcha with private scandal that displaces the real PUBLIC news, and also acts to distract and divide the people with partisan debates centering about their respective hopes and intentions for the institution of marriage.

But marriage, in the end, is only "instituted" between two people and there are lots of kinds of marriages (open marriages, covenant marriages, gay marriages, marriages of convenience, etc.) and thus there's no "one size fits all" rule to play gotcha with in the first place. All there is in marital-scandal "gotcha" politics that Gingrich is trying to play (and that Democrats sometimes do play as well) is a form of wedge-issue politics that inflames both those who gravitate for and those who gravitate against the particular one size fits all rule being used to bash the other side.

That being said, there's still an issue with Gingrich for not extending to others the same mercy and forgiveness he undoubtedly requires for himself. That's a Golden Rule issue, if you will, and not the politics of personal destruction. And the Golden Rule resonates everywhere, including, of course, into fitness for office.

[herbm]

4. Newt's reputation of past legislative misdeeds have "corroded away" from the publics' memory?