Newt is trying to clean up his image.

[Swede]

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But it is hard to see how you can say your campaign is starting out hot when you have to get one of your daughters out in front of you, saying that it's NOT true that her father once served her mother with divorce papers while the mother was recovering from cancer surgery. Even if that's sure not the way mom remembers it.


"When he got ," the former Mrs. Gingrich told The Washington Post one time, "he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery."

Later, Gingrich stepped out on the second Mrs. Gingrich with the third warming up in the bullpen, which explains why he'd rather talk about his bold new ideas rather than the "mistakes" he's made in the past, ones on which he says he and God are not totally square.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/16/2011-05-16_huckabee_out_newt_in_and_rest_of_gop_is_still_trying_to_find_way_out_of_dugout_s.html

[Historic NY]

1. Well he certainly doesn't take being Catholic to heart in his words & deeds...

he only has a couple more commandments to break.

[Raschel]

2. Doesn't matter. Newt is the poster boy for the old Republican institution. The repub voters

are not interested in him. Plus he's unlikeable.

[xfundy]

3. Get him a 55-gallon drum of Turd Polish!

STAT!

[Rex]

4. Impossible, you cannot clean up dirt.

It's still dirt.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Blame the Mythbusters.....

they proved you could polish a turd.

:shrug:

[SpiralHawk]

6. "I did not have divorce papers with that invalid, Mrs. Newtie." - The Newtie (R - DraftDodger)