Newt handles infidelity question well

[240 is Back]

In a question-and-answer session, Isabel Friedman, a student at the university who's also Democratic activist, pressed Gingrich on how he squares his pro-family values with the fact he has been married three times and has admitted to two extramarital affairs.

"You adamantly oppose gay rights... but you've also been married three times and admitted to having an affair with your current wife while you were still married to your second," Friedman said, in comments first reported by Politico. "As a successful politician who's considering running for president, who would set the bar for moral conduct and be the voice of the American people, how do you reconcile this hypocritical interpretation of the religious values that you so vigorously defend?"

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"I'll bet almost everybody here can gather the thrust of your question," he said. "I appreciate the delicacy and generosity in the way it was framed . . . I hope you feel better about yourself."

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"I've had a life which, on occasion, has had problems," said Gingrich. "I believe in a forgiving God, and the American people will have to decide whether that's their primary concern."

"If the primary concern of the American people is my past, my candidacy would be irrelevant," he continued. "If the primary concern of the American people is the future . . . that's a debate I'll be happy to have."

[bears]

if you've done something against what you stand for, you're a hypocrite.  

some people love to throw this in the face of people who try to live by a moral code and fall along the way because like any other person they are fallible.  most people who grew up in generation X do not believe that they commit sin or do anything wrong.  they like to think of themselves as infallible.  and it's easy because they stand for nothing.  therefore they can do nothing wrong.  

This new generation of gen exers form their morals around their actions, as opposed to trying to act in a way that they know is moral.  therefore they can never fail and never have to recognize one single ounce of humility their entire lives.  this would break most of these people because they simply lack moral fiber.

let's face it.  it's hard to do the right thing all of the time.  this type of attack on a politician, whether it be a conservative or a liberal, is infantile at best, blatantly bias at worst.  that chick shouldn't be allowed to sharpen pencils at any newspaper that i would want to read..