[Vision2020] Gingrich Admits Affair During Lewinsky Sandal

[Sue Hovey]

Well one can always hope.

Sue

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From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Gingrich Admits Affair During Lewinsky Sandal


> It has to be one of the stupidest things he has ever done. But, others 
> have
> risen about stupid things so maybe it won't totally do him in??
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 6:47 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Gingrich Admits Affair During Lewinsky Sandal
>
>
>>From today's (March 9, 2007) Spokesman Review -
>
> "Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed 
> as
> a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity."
>
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>
> WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich 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 today, 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.
>
> Gingrich has said he is waiting to see how the Republican field shapes up
> before deciding in the fall whether to run for president.
>
> Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged him for years as a result of 
> two
> messy divorces, but he has refused to discuss them publicly.
>
> Gingrich, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, divorced his
> second wife, Marianne, in 2000 after his attorneys acknowledged Gingrich's
> relationship with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional
> aide more than 20 years younger than he is.
>
> His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie
> Battley, ended in divorce in 1981. Battley has said Gingrich discussed
> divorce terms with her while she was recuperating from cancer surgery.
>
> "There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things 
> that
> were wrong. But I was still doing them," he said in the interview.
>
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>
> This is the same Gingrich who divorced his wife while she was in the
> hospital with cancer.  We can assume that family values will not be a 
> chief
> topic during his 2008 presidential campaign.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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