Video: Newt Gingrich Claims Adultery Makes Him "More Normal"

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In a recent interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich claimed that his multiple extramarital affairs actually make him “more normal” than other candidates (video below).

Gingrich said that Christians “recognize that I have not hidden from the facts of my life, that I have confessed my weaknesses and I have had to go to God for forgiveness and for reconciliation."

“I think that most people can identify either with themselves or with friends or with loved ones that life has moments that are very sad and you wish wouldn’t have occurred, and then you look back on them and you seek forgiveness for not having been everything you could be."

“So, I think in that sense it may make me more normal than somebody who wanders around seeming perfect, and maybe not understanding the human condition and the challenges of life among the people.”

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steveylegendo's picture

I dont think the US has had a president with any real conviction since JFK, they are all stooges of a wider conspiracy against freedom, democracy, and justice. If AIPAC ask they get, the US government is just a proxy for Israel anyway. You will do the dirty work when they attack Iran! Hope Britain doesn't get involved Steve from e-lites discount codes

eojtus's picture

Attaboy, Newt! Good ol' limitless God omnisciently knows yer heart and so has forgiven you! If God's forgiven ya, by golly, so should the previous wives ya cheated, and, so should we! And, heck, like ya say, we've all needed our fellow man's forgiveness and we've all extended forgiveness to other people for somethin' or other, so you're just another boy we're all in this together with, right?

Oh, wait...except, "repentance" is generally understood to at least affect if not include subsequent behavior. A person's repentance, especially for certain wrongdoings, is evidenced to limited fellow humans by his actual behavior subsequent to his claimed "repentance", not only by his good words and fine speeches which might merely express intentions never followed through upon if not outright insincerity or dishonesty. For example, how can others know I have truly repented of thirty years of thievery unless they see subsequent years of honest livelihood as well as restitution for what I formerly stole?

So, I'll tell ya what, Newtie -- put your money where your fine-sounding mouth is. Postpone your presidential candidacy until you prove to us mere mortals that you HAVE indeed "changed' by staying faithful to wife #whichever for the next twenty years. At that date, your fine talk about confession and reconciliation will carry some weight in contrast to your former track record's. Until then, you're no more credible than the coke-head who insists, "I've used for years, I admit it, but I've quit now, I swear to God!"

(Btw -- I'm an agnostic who's been married thirty-one years and I've never cheated on my wife).

USMCvet's picture

"I think that most people can identify either with themselves or with friends or with loved ones that life has moments that are very sad and you wish wouldn’t have occurred, and then you look back on them and you seek forgiveness for not having been everything you could be."

No! I've never, ever cheated on my wife...even when she and I were both deployed away from each other for years. Newt is trying to, somehow, give cover to all of those cheating republicans (i.e. Souder, Sanford, Lee, Guiliani, Kerik, Boehner, Haggard, Rekers, Vitter, etc. etc. etc.) to lower the mantle of their incessant claim that they are the "party of family values". It will never work.

So, does this mean, that a Democrat can cheat and "go to God" and then have republicans for him??? I think not. Newt has more skeletons in his closet then a medical lab.

Jerome McCollom's picture

So, when Clinton had one affair (to Newt's at least two) than Newt didn't attack him? Yeah right. What a giant hypocrite is Newt.

Jerome McCollom

stockball's picture

I think we can safely say Bill didn't stop at one...but obviously Newt was the equivalent of a man in a glass house throwing stones...

steven48r's picture

Its is very simple to assume that most men of power have affairs. Most of us would if we could haha. So really they are all the same.

Tiexiongji's picture

One of the most immoral things about religion;

"I had to go to God for forgiveness and reconciliation."

So just skip all of the people you actually wronged and claim your invisible friend has forgiven you. How can anyone say that???

Everything I do, I do it for you.

chelsea25y's picture

This is crazy that he has these beliefs. This is really not normal for a politician.

stockball's picture

"you seek forgiveness for not having been everything you could be" - somehow I think his ex-wife missed the part where he sought forgiveness...because he didn't seek it from her?

A Hermit's picture

Poor poor Newty; it must have been so hard on him to run around cheating on his wives, especially after they became ill.

What a despicable little man.

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