ability to express their patriotic passion by joining the military,
they must instead resort to sex.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:25 AM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:
>
> "Frum is in his own way as loathsome as Gingrich, but he has a point: "It's
> not the infidelity. It's the arrogance, hypocrisy, and – most horrifying to
> women voters – the cruelty. Anyone can dump one sick wife. Gingrich dumped
> two"" -- William N. Grigg
>
>
> Family values and the Newt Gingrich question
> David Frum March 9, 2011 – 10:47 am
>
> Newt Gingrich attends a Faith & Freedom Coalition event in Iowa. Should
> Family Values candidates actually adhere to family values?
>
> Pete Wehner tries to assess how much past marital infidelity will hurt Newt
> Gingrich's presidential chances.
>
> Many of the rest of us are on a continuum when it comes to deciding how much
> infidelity should matter in the selection of a president. Facts and
> circumstances are crucial. Was the infidelity an isolated instance or a
> chronic pattern? Were the transgressions long ago or recent? What levels of
> deception and cover-up were involved? What was the position of authority the
> person held when the infidelity occurred? Was there an alarming degree of
> recklessness on display? What evidence is there that this person has changed
> his ways? Has this person shown other worrisome signs when it comes to
> character and trustworthiness?
>
> These are all fair and interesting points, but they do not address the
> reason that Gingrich's personal life has been – and will be – so politically
> lethal.
>
> It's not the infidelity. It's the arrogance, hypocrisy, and – most
> horrifying to women voters – the cruelty.
>
> Anyone can dump one sick wife. Gingrich dumped two.
>
> And that second dumped wife is talking to the media. From the Esquire
> magazine profile of Newt Gingrich published in September 2010:
>
> After going to the doctor for a mysterious tingling in her hand, [Marianne
> Gingrich] was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Early in May 1999, she went
> out to Ohio for her mother's birthday. A day and a half went by and Newt
> didn't return her calls, which was strange. They always talked every day,
> often ten times a day, so she was frantic by the time he called to say he
> needed to talk to her. "About what?" He wanted to talk in person, he said.
> "I said, 'No, we need to talk now.' " He went quiet. "There's somebody else,
> isn't there?" She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did
> she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in
> her bed? She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house
> the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept
> saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. "'I can't handle
> a Jaguar right now.' He said that many times. 'All I want is a Chevrolet.' "
> He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
>
> He'd just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he'd given a speech full
> of high sentiments about compassion and family values. The next night, they
> sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, "How do you give
> that speech and do what you're doing?" "It doesn't matter what I do," he
> answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who
> can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."
>
> Who needs oppo research with quotes like those on the record?
>
> National Post
>
>
> Author and columnist David Frum is editor of FrumForum.com, where this
> originally appeared
>
>
> http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/09/david-frum-family-values-and-the-newt-gingrich-question/
>
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