Newt Gingrich Comes Out

Remember when, in the 1990's, Newt Gingrich led the country in a socio-political revolution bearing the "MORAL MAJORITY" banner? Several people countered with this caveat: "THE MORAL MAJORITY IS NEITHER!" They may have been on the left, but they were right!

In today's damage-control interview regarding his marital infidelity, the aspiring Republican 2008 presidential nominee Gingrich told Focus on the Family founder James Dobson: "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." Focus on the Family interview (to be posted in full today): http://listen.family.org/daily/

Gingrich denies he is a hypocrite for having an affair with a congressional aid while seeking prosecution of President Clinton's lie about infidelity, lest we forget that he sought prosecution for the lie, not for the infidelity.

Instead, Gingrich, who frequently campaigns on family values issues demonstrates his hypocricy for behaviors contrary to those family values. Gingrich has had two messy divorces. The first in, 1981, from his first wife Jackie Battley, he initiated during her recuperation in the hospital from cancer surgery. And now he admits that his second marriage to Marianne, ended in 2000 during an affair with his third wife Callista Bisek. At the time of the affair, Callista was a congressional aide more than 20 years his junior.

Gingrich suddenly resigned from Congress in 1998 after the House ethics panel reprimand for using tax-exempt funding to advance his political agenda, The "MORAL MAJORITY" agenda. According to WIKIPEDIA, the "Moral Majority" was a political Christian lobby group begun in 1979 which campaigned on issues it believed central to upholding its Christian conception of the moral law, a perception it believed represented the majority of people's opinions (hence the movement's name). The central issues it campaigned on were outlawing abortion, opposing state recognition and acceptance of homosexuals, enforcing it's vision of life, and censoring media that promote what it labeled as an 'anti-family' agenda.

See Ali G interview with Newt Gingrich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skv-wWCvGyw

View the blogs and polls; Gingrich's attempt at projecting moral rectitude by revealing his infidelity has not redeemed him.