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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 10:02 AM
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Just a reminder that Newton Gingrich has more dirty laundry than Cain
I fail to see how Newton can be a viable candidate:

In the mid-1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior. They continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal, when Gingrich became a leader of the investigation of President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his alleged affairs. In 2000, Gingrich married Bisek shortly after his divorce from second wife Ginther.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Personal_life

Also from Wikipedia:

Gingrich is the only Speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations.

During his term as Speaker, eighty-four ethics charges were filed against him; eighty-three of them were dropped. The remaining charge concerned a 20-hour college course called "Renewing American Civilization" that Gingrich had taught through a tax-deductible foundation, Kennesaw State College Foundation. Allegations of tax improprieties led to two counts "of failure to seek legal advice" and one count of "providing the committee with information which he knew or should have known was inaccurate" concerning the use of a tax exempt college course for political purposes. To avoid a full hearing, Gingrich and the House Ethics Subcommittee negotiated a sanctions agreement. Democrats accused Gingrich of violating the agreement, but it was forwarded to the House for approval. On January 21, 1997, the House voted 395 to 28 to reprimand Gingrich, including a $300,000 "cost assessment" to recoup money spent on the investigation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Ethics_sanctions

I lived for years in Marietta, Georgia, the home of Newton. He's a piece of work, to put it nicely. It blows my mind that he was having an affair with an intern at the same time he was trying to take Clinton down for the same thing. And I have no doubt that the nutbags who support the man won't see the hypocrisy behind that. Sad...
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 10:16 AM
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1. Newt's laundry is so dirty that the front-loading washer pukes it out every time.
All they really need to do to counter the Gingrinch is just play the clips from his "Contract ON America" era.

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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 07:36 PM
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2. The other thing he has going against him is he's the Anti-Clinton
and by that I mean that as much as conservatives hate the Clintons we Progressives hate Gingrich. He is one of the few GOP candidates who would activate Dems to GOTV against him. So he'd have Dems voting against him and others voting for Obama and it would not bode well for Newton.
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