Newt Gingrich Admits to "Moral Failings"

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

On an upcoming radio program, hosted by James Dobson:

"Gingrich tells Dobson that he has "gotten on his knees and sought God's forgiveness" for his personal failings. Sheesh, sounds like a Kleenex moment, too. But it could signal that Newt thinking more seriously about 2008 than he has previously let on. Why? For one thing, there's no major frontrunner among evangelicals in the race for the White House next year-no matter what Mitt Romney's win in the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll last weekend suggests."

Gingrich admits moral failings? In unrelated news, the Pacific Ocean admits to have a "moisture problem."

Sheesh

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. His closet has more skeletons than a 500 acre cemetery

But I think they'll actually run this clown. He'd better get used to being on his knees..........

[goclark]

27. ROTFL ~ that is so funny nt

[geiger]

55. I am sorry to say that I think they think they can run him because if Hillary is polarizing, and he

is polarizing, they cancel each other out, and the Republicans can steal another election again.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Does his ego allow him to be on his knees?

[geiger]

56. super-ego,

suppressing his utterly out-of-control id

[Raven]

3. It will take more than a few knee bends

for that fat shit to be forgiven!

[geiger]

58. he's large enough that this whole getting down on his knees story is unbelievable

on its face.

[Briar]

4. Supporting war, inequality

discrimation and poverty are moral failings (all of which conservatives do, under the guise of promoting rewards for the "enterprising", using greed as an incentive and low taxation). I bet he doesn't admit to them.

[geiger]

59. no, they are "justified," because we are fighting EVIL and TERROR

and he incited the terrorists within our own borders, with his hate-spewn rhetoric against the very foundations of our democratic government.

[SpiralHawk]

5. "But then I found Jebus, and became massively morally superior." - Newtie

[Zenlitened]

18. Bingo! Newtie's EXACTLY the type to play the...

... "Jaysus-forgives-me/Get-out-of-jail-free" card.

I hope someone has the complete list of his "moral failings" ready to distribute, should he decide to run.

Because this guys' history would make Caligula blush. :wow:

[Doctor_J]

6. When will he admit to being the biggest fucking hypocrite ever to

cash a government paycheck?

[geiger]

60. he's fine with it, as long as it's him and not a Democrat.

[sharp_stick]

7. Bloody Hypocrites

I don't know who I despise more the real fundies or the scumbags like Gingrich that pretend to be religious and pious for the simple reason that the fundies will buy their bullshit hook, line and sinker every Goddamned time.

Like cheney telling everyone how christian he is and then telling a Senator to go fuck himself. Sometimes I long for the old days when we could stone these fucking hypocrites. There are so many examples of this it's downright sickening. An old neighbor I had who couldn't wait to spread the word of God to me everytime I tried to mow my lawn and then couldn't wait to bang his teenage babysitter when his poor wife was out of town or Falwell "begging" forgiveness from his flock for getting a handjob from a crackwhore in a cheap motel room.

[bemildred]

8. Newt wants a political comeback.

Can you imagine "President Gingrich"?

[Solly Mack]

9. LMAO Sounds like Helen Chenoweth. Next Newt will call for a national day of

prayer and forgiveness for his "moral failings"

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Excuse me

but God isn't the one you should be asking for forgiveness, Netwie. Try asking your WIVES and CHILDREN. They are the ones you screwed.

[EST]

11. I think Jesus' admonition to the harlot was

"go and sin no more," not, "go and admit only those sins you think stiff necked, simple minded idiots might remember and hold you accountable for!"

As for the knob polishing that the holier than thou creeps want to castrate Clinton for, while giving their own culprits a pass, that whole dust up is a lesson in publiclown illiteracy and mental puddle jumping.

There was, for the purpose of selective political bashing and excusing of "conservative" hypocrisy, an official, written definition of what was considered sex. Oral sex was not on the list.

I think I could make the case that Clinton did not even commit perjury, as he tried to explain with his "definition of what is is" statement.

Furthermore, Clinton finally fessed up, took his lumps, and won through, doing a fair job ot what he was getting paid for. "Mr. Newt," on the other hand, refused to acknowledge the girl who lived under his desk for far longer and he is only now barely admitting his culpability for cleaning up the record.
Clinton is still married to the same wife.

Gingrich is one sad, sorry example of the talent available to the party of hate and destruction.

[geiger]

54. I think you have covered all the bases here. Good for you. publicdown illiteracy & mental

puddle jumping very important point and reminder.

They're all a bunch of shameless pigs.

[callous taoboy]

12. BWAAAA HAAAAA HAAA!!!! Go tell it in rehab, newt. n/t

[varun]

13. Maybe Newt should come out as an ex gay male prostitute

Repuglicans can forgive him then.

Just ask Dirty Sanchez and Guckert.

[shain from kane]

14. I haaavvvve sssinnnedddd. Jimmy Swaggart to the rescue. Go, Jimmy Swaggart. Go.

Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

I was sitting on a mountain top.
30,000 feet to drop.
Tied me on a runaway horse
Uh huh, that's right, of course.
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

One day, I met a girl named Sue.
She was feeling kind of blue.
I'm Dandy, the kind of guy
Who can't stand to see a little girl cry.
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

Jim Dandy to the rescue!
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Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

I was riding on a submarine
Got a message from my mermaid queen.
She was hanging on a fishing line.
Mr. Dandy didn't waste no time!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

Once upon a time, I went to Maine.
Got a ticket on a DC plane.
Mr. Dandy didn't need no chute!
I was high and ready to boot!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

[Virginia Dare]

15. Guiliani/Gingrich, what a ticket that would be...

both serial wife swappers.

Apparently the theme this year is: It's okay to screw around on your wife as long as you're a Repuke and you publicly ask for God's forgiveness. :eyes:

[lebkuchen]

16. Kumbaya, my lord, kumbaya

only thing's missing is a campfire, marshmallows, and guitar.

[donsu]

17. laughing madly

sorry, can't picture the old man down on his old knees

saying you prayed is saying nothing

[David Zephyr]

19. To paraphrase Simon Cowel: This has the Gag Factor.

:puke:

[stanwyck]

20. Hey, Newt, even Jesus has his limits

and you're among the "unforgiven". You authored, literally (yep, he wrote a manual he distributed) the politics of personal destruction. And now you're the victim of your highly successful campaign to drag American politics deeper into the muck. The talk-show toadies learned well from you and now our nation is bitterly divided. And guess what? You're not even relevant anymore. You're the old guy sitting on the porch ranting at the kids to "get offa my lawn!". No one pays attention to you anymore. You're yesterday's newspaper.
Go away.

[Forkboy]

21. Translation: He's running for President

Get that pesky cover all apology out of the way now and say God helped you do it.

His hat is in the ring.Count on it.

[Maddy McCall]

22. Didn't he leave his cancer-patient wife to marry a younger woman?

God might forgive him, but the American public won't.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

24. Oh that's only part of it...

A campaign worker from back in the 1970's observed Newt receiving oral sex in a car parked in his own driveway (the other party was not his wife) while his young daughters were standing close by. The worker noted that it was only because they were short and couldn't see into the car that the girls didn't get quite a lesson in the birds and the bees. The worker noted that Gingrich saw them standing there and just smiled.

[AnneD]

26. Had the papers served to her

in the hospital...Maybe I am overly sensitive but everyone I know working at MD Anderson Cancer Institute at the time never forgave him. I can't judge him, but I sure know him by his fruits.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

51. He swears he doesn't remember this...

So in addition to being an insentive lout, he's also a lying P.O.S.

...which makes him emminently qualified to lead the Republican Party.

[AnneD]

65. In my time as an oncology nurse....

I saw some sorry behaviour and I thought I had seen it all, until I heard about Newt. It shocked us all-that is why I never forgot it. He may not remember it-but I sure as hell do.

[benld74]

23. From a man who couldn't spell it if you spotted him the MORA_

[sofa king]

25. Does that moral failing include his entire tenure as a Member of Congress?

Let's see if I can run through a short list by heart, without Wikipedia....

* Cheated on every wife he ever had.

* Informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital with cancer.

* Cheated with his own staff intern while Speaker of the House, after vowing to the press to mention Bill Clinton's infidelity at every public opportunity. Divorced wife #2 (or was it #3) to marry said intern in 2000. (Should be just about time to trade her in now. Won't that be entertaining?)

* Orchestrated the resignation of Jim Wright as Speaker of the House for using book sales as a back-door campaign donation. Then, when Newt became Speaker it was revealed that he had done the exact same thing. Newt, the ethical scion that he is, refused to resign.

* Tirelessly fought for the impeachment of a President for lying to a Grand Jury about a blow job. Tirelessly defends the current President for lying to Congress during a State of the Union address to start a war.

* Personally refined and disseminated the art of using sophistic language in order to demean political opponents and deceive the public. (Newt's "Glittering Generalities" and "Name-Calling Words," still used by Republican Party shills at Fox News to this day.)

Well, that's about all I can think of off the top of my head, but if every American knew all those things off the top of their heads, the Republican Party would be assassinating each other for dogcatcher jobs and Newt Gingrich would be teaching ethics to prison inmates.

[caledesi]

64. And don't forget, when he divorced his lst wife, he was cheating

on her with his eventual 2nd wife Marianne. He told her he was divorcing her ON THE PHONE while she was visiting her mother.

He was cheating with staffer at the time. Meanwhile, he was the SOH and calling Clinton a CRIMINAL! Oh, IMO, he stepped down bec Clinton (et al) knew about his skanking around and threatened to tell unless the hypocrite stepped down. JMO.

[Jackpine Radical]

28. Wouldn't you have to have morals in rder to have "moral failings?"

You know, like you have to have a heart in order to have heart failure.

[geiger]

29. good point; he has never had them to begin with.

I loathe the sight of that man.

[rocktivity]

30. Clinton admitted to moral failings, too, Newt,

but you didn't care what we thought.

:headbang:
rocknation

[LeftishBrit]

31. Yes. Like being a right-wing Republican!!!

That's a SERIOUS moral failing.

[flaminbats]

45. amen!!

to these creeps hypocrisy is just being honest, perjury is patriotic..unless you're Bill Clinton, big government and bureaucracy is too dangerous..but not the Department of Homeland Security, an exit strategy should never be required..unless you're Bill Clinton, family values are important..unless you're the one being cheated on, we must fund our troops in Iraq..unless that means a tax increase, we must never micromanage or question the Commander in Chief's war strategy..unless the President is Jimmy Carter, and we oppose government healthcare benefits for everyone..unless your a member of Congress.

uggg..where is the moral majority now, and does it really exist?

[keroro gunsou]

32. oh brother...

that sir, has to be the understatement of the freakin' new milennium.

[Placebo]

33. Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards."

Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.

"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."

More...

Hypocrites, all.

[graywarrior]

34. Probe

*snort*


Sorry.

[evlbstrd]

37. I ain't touchin' that.

[graywarrior]

41. I'm surprised. Usually, you jump right in.

:rofl:

[evlbstrd]

43. I just put on clean socks.

[donheld]

49. I'm quite sure it was just a tiny one

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[saltpoint]

35. If Newt Gingrich had an affair during the Clinton impeachment-for-lying-

about-sex trial, I'm not surprised, and if he did, it was more than likely with a farm animal or a toaster.

I have less than zilch respect for New Gingrich.

[City Lights]

36. Just one? eom

[niyad]

38. what a load of codswallop-- he was most certainly judging clinton, still is. as for the remark

about falling short of standards, is it just me, or is he trying to make it sound as though his own standards are stricter than his god's?

funny, he isn't talking about how he presented divorce papers to a woman who was undergoing cancer treatments.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

39. "There are times I've fallen short of my own standards." WTF does THAT mean?

When I read that sentence I see..."I blame myself for myself and it was me who didn't meet the standards I set for myself."

Lots of I,I,I and me,me,me.

Great leadership skills there, Newt. MKJ

[underpants]

57. "But it's not related to what happened."

:rofl:

[yellowcanine]

40. It's a wonder I have any ass left since I have been laughing my ass off at Newtie's

self-serving parsing of the degrees of infidelity and moral shortcomings. Makes one wonder if he ever stops and listens to the sound of his own voice.

[ProudDad]

42. By my count

he's 13 years too late.

[daleo]

44. I knew he was a sleazy hypocrite

But this deserves some sort of prize. Having an affair while he was fulminating about Clinton-Lewinsky...bastard.

[lpbk2713]

46. And Charlie Manson was a naughty boy.

I'm all broke up about Newt's repentance.

Anybody remember Jimmy Swaggert?

[Justice]

47. did he go to rehab?

if so, he should be all cured by now.

[geiger]

53. his brain is "cured," with something, to be sure.

[GomezLives]

48. Then he should be "preemptively impeached"

[Caretha]

50. You just know these Assholes like Gingrich

are saying as they undo their Mic's after the interview... "So, you think the peons will buy it?"

[geiger]

52. Newt Gingrich has blood on his hands; he incited so much anti-govt fervor

we got the Oklahoma bombings. He's as immoral as they come.

[AngryOldDem]

61. Another GOP hypocrite...

I'm shocked, I say. Absolutely shocked.

[BenDavid]

62. I do not understand the

uproar. Most and I include myself in this knew that Gingrich was having an affair with a member of his staff back in 98. Remember when Larry Flint was going to out many of the Republicans because of their hypocrisy. He resigned to save face.He’s got to be kidding.

Newt Gingrich is taking steps toward a potential presidential bid in 2008 with a book criticizing President Bush’s policies on Iraq and a tour of early campaign states.

The former House speaker who led Republicans to power a decade ago said he soon will visit Iowa and New Hampshire to promote his book, try to influence public policy and keep his political options alive.

“Anything seems possible,” including a White House race, Gingrich told The Associated Press.

I don’t actually believe any of this. I think Newt enjoys the attention and wants to sell some books; if a rumored White House bid gets his name thrown around on Meet the Press, then the rumors serve his purposes. The AP reported that Newt “seemed to welcome” the idea that his new political book would boost interest in his political aspirations. It seems to me this is backwards — speculation about his future is intended to sell books.

But the amusing part of Newt’s momentary return to the spotlight is his sudden interest in religion.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich says he “got fed up with people who argue that somehow the concept of the creator wasn’t central to how the Founding Fathers understood America.” So in a book being published today, he includes a 19-page “Walking Tour of G-d in Washington, D.C.,” cataloging references to the Bible, Moses and a heavenly father on the Capitol, monuments and memorials.

“In the last 30 years, you had this politically correct delegitimizing of G-d in American public life, which I think is a denial of the core of American civilization,” he said in a telephone interview yesterday.


Newt Gingrich never viewed the religious right base of the GOP as anything but a necessary evil. He admitted to never attending church services, his Contract with America ommitted any reference to social conservative issues, and he did little as Speaker to advance the movement’s biggest issues. Indeed, James Dobson was so fed up with Newt’s disinterest in the religious right’s concerns that he threatened in 1998 to pull evangelicals out of the Republican Party altogether.

But now Newt’s found G-d? Please.

Perhaps after Newt is done lecturing us about the crisis of “delegitimizing of G-d” in American public life, he can explain why he’s had three marriages, had a lengthy affair during the second of those three marriages, served his first wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital, and mysteriously asked the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta to annul his second marriage despite the fact that it lasted 19 years. I’m sure the explanation would shed light on Newt’s deeply-held religious Christian beliefs."the carperbagger"

[geiger]

63. It's just the whole continued personification of his evil character that gets to me.

we all know he is a scum bag, but the Republicans are great at revisionist history, have no qualms about lying about the important things, and use these types of diversions to keep attention away from the evil people like Newt Gingrich have laid upon our backs, and the backs of our children.

He should be banished to another land for all the destruction he has wrought in our country and upon our government. He is one of the most despicable characters in our country's history; he would make the Top Ten List.

[geiger]

66. kick

[yellowcanine]

67. His whole life has been a moral failure. If he is the only Republican candidate with ideas than

that party is a moral failure as well.

[geiger]

68. the IDEAS personify moral failing

[yellowcanine]

69. Exactly. Not just moral failing but moral bankruptcy.

[geiger]

70. ditto

[Judi Lynn]

71. ABC: Gingrich Admits to Affair While Pursuing Clinton Over Lewinsky

Gingrich Admits to Affair While Pursuing Clinton Over LewinskyBy JAKE TAPPER

March 9, 2007 — Setting the stage for his entry into the presidential race, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., gave a radio interview to be broadcast today with Focus on the Family's James Dobson, in which Gingrich for the first time publicly acknowledged cheating on his first and second wives.

"There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them," Gingrich said during the interview. "I look back on those as periods of weakness and periods that I'm not only not proud of, but I would deeply urge my children and grandchildren not to follow in my footsteps."

You can listen to the full interview here.

"I was married very young and had my first daughter when I was very young, in fact at the end of my freshman year in college," he said of his first marriage to Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher. "And after a period of time, about 18 years, things just didn't work out."
(snip/...)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2937633&page=1

[geiger]

72. he wants sympathy now? praying and still doing bad things? asshole.

[Cha]

73. Not only that..

I question his brain power.

I know he's suppose to be a genius and all that but what kind of genius lies to get where he wants to be?

[draft_mario_cuomo]

74. The right-wingers are desperate

They hate McCain, can't really trust Romney, and abhor Giuliani's views so Gingrich is in a good position to win the nomination as the conservative candidate. I hope he runs and wins the nomination. If he is the nominee it will be a Democratic landslide.

[geiger]

75. but so smug, too. dontcha just wanna slap it off them?