Your stated support of Newt makes me wonder. Has American politics reached a point where marital infidelity should no longer be an issue as to whether a man is suited to be President? Do we owe Clinton an apology?Absolutely not. Bill Clinton getting away with his extramarital affair, not to mention perjuring himself to a grand jury and manipulating a naïve intern for sex, makes it difficult to hold any politician to a high moral standard nowadays. That is our own fault. The economy was booming at the time. Americans were fat, dumb, and happy, so we did not care what Clinton was up to. If things had been going badly, Clinton might very well have been driven out of office for his transgressions.
The situation with Gingrich is quite similar. Rank and file republicans want someone who is ready to take the fight to Barack Obama, but realize that candidate is not the wimpy, out of touch moderate Mitt Romney. Like Clinton with Clinton back in the days when he dodged impeachment because other circumstance were favorable for Americans, Gingrich gts a free pass on his character issues because circumstances are unfavorable as far as conservatives are concerned. We have a disastrous president undeserving of reelection and the party elites are trying to force a candidate on us who does not what to play the opposition to Obama. I am not entirely thrilled with Gingrich, either, but I have to play the game with the cards I am dealt.
Regardless, I issue no apologies to Clinton. Has he demonstrated an ounce of remorse for his actions? I have missed it if so. Gingrich has at least spoken of his conversion to Catholicism ands the positive effects it has had on him. He may very well be feeding a line to evangelical voters, but I will take him at face value. At least he is putting forth an effort to look redeemed.
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