Newt Gingrich: I’m not a hypocrite - James Hohmann

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0311/Newt_Gingrich_Im_not_a_hypocrite_for_impeaching_Clinton_while_cheating_on_my_wife.html

He has some very good points about reconciling the disparity in his personal actions and his actions against Clinton. That is, they would be good points if someone else were making them. Had he solemnly acted as he defended the institution, that would have been one thing. However, he rose to the occasion with bombast and narcissism at heights rarely seen in a city built on the two attributes. He attacked Clinton on a personal level and sought power for himself, none of which is addressed here.

 Wallace played the clip of Gingrich suggesting in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network earlier this month that his affair was “partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country.”

“Speaker, you’ve had more than a decade to come up with an answer and, in all honesty, there are a lot of people who thought that answer was kind of lame,” Wallace told Gingrich. “That wouldn’t work with my wife!”

If he had a smidgen of honesty and integrity he would have dropped this charade long ago.