I think there is a lot more screwing around in Washington than people think

[edhopper]

I don't think Newty screwing around behind his wife is an exception. They way he did it and how he treated them is loathsome as well as the hypocracy of the impeachment was despicable. I just don't think his sexual activity was uncommon among folks in Congress.

[Solly Mack]

1. I don't think it is uncommon either.

But I've been making fun of Newt since I was a teen in Georgia. It's not just habit - it's entertainment.

[notadmblnd]

2. I believe it's the norm too

I'm also convinced that they use the dirt they collect on each other to coerce their peers and associates into toeing the line

[gateley]

3. Agree. They get that power and being surround themselves with yes-men and

think they're invincible. Weiner comes to mind.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. It is"the hypocracy of the impeachment " that is the problem in this. + Newt is insane.

[rhiannon55]

5. That's it exactly. Newt (and that awful Kenneth Starr) hounded Bill Clinton

all the way to impeachment for blow jobs. And Newt was fucking Callista the whole time and trying to get Marianne to say it was okay. What a nasty, evil hypocrite. I despised him then and I despise him even more now.

[The Wielding Truth]

12. He can lie with venom about anything. Neither he nor Mitt have a consceince. They have no line

they will not cross or conviction they will stay with.

Santorum has conviction but it is twisted around his very bad interpretation of Christianity. His dogmatism can cause mass destruction. This dogmatism has controlled the actions of believers before that has led to horrific actions during the Crusades of the middle ages or the Roman and Spanish Inquisition. When a national leader brings his strict religious mores into government through laws and prosecution a free society is squashed.

In short.They are all very bad. Sorry but to talk of Newt you have to point out that there is no one running on their side that is worthy to even be in government let alone to be our leader.

[TheOther95Percent]

6. I think you're right.

Sex is fun. I'd rather spend my free time having copious amounts of sex than hanging out in the woods waiting to shoot at some deer. I'd rather get laid than watch some 300 pound men chasing each other around a field. Give me a choice between listening to a sermon or some horizontal mambo and - you guessed it - ride 'em cowboy! Now if I was a politician and had to deal with people telling me to keep the government's hands off their Medicare, complain about taxes when their job/healthcare/pension are government funded and show up all flipped out because a black man was elected president, I'd be looking for a lot of bedroom action.

[MrScorpio]

7. Sex in Washington is a huge past time

What else is new?

[quakerboy]

8. Im not sure its all that rare anywhere

Nor is the hypocrisy.

[onenote]

10. +1

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Capitol Gossip has been a favorite hobby since Andrew Jackson.

Wags were sharing rumors that he married his wife, Rachel, while she was still married to her first husband, thus engaging in the crime of bigamy. (Jackson blamed the premature death of his wife on the stress of the being shunned by Society due to the rumors.) Decades later when Jackson was in the White House, he came to the defense of the wife of his Secretary of War, Peggy Eaton, who faced similar "scandal".
http://www.academicamerican.com/jeffersonjackson/topics/eaton.htm

[yardwork]

11. It's the lying and cover up that gets people's attention.

Yes, Newt is a vile hypocrite. But going back to Clinton, if he had not lied on TV by vehemently waving his finger at us and insisting that he "did not have sex with that woman" then we probably never would have heard of the blue dress. If Clinton had simply answered that kangaroo court grand jury the way that Newt did at the debate in SC the other day, that particular issue would have died. Not that Newt and the Republicans wouldn't have hounded Clinton for a zillion other made-up things. Cause that's what Republicans do.

[spanone]

13. newt is not an exception to anything. he's just an arrogant fuck without a shred of remorse.

even when he's caught.