What a bunch of hypocrites. Worthless like the rest

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597666,00.html?cnn=yes

WASHINGTON—Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was 
having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President 
Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with 
a conservative Christian group. 

"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential 
candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James 
Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The 
Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own 
standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards." 

Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a 
hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity. 

"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in 
front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of 
Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice 
charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of 
being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am 
not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the 
government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move 
forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials." 

Widely considered a mastermind of the Republican revolution that swept 
Congress in the 1994 elections, Gingrich remains wildly popular among many 
conservatives. He has repeatedly placed near the top of Republican 
presidential polls recently, even though he has not formed a campaign. 

Gingrich has said he is waiting to see how the Republican field shapes up 
before deciding in the fall whether to run. 

Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged him for years as a result of two 
messy divorces, but he has refused to discuss them publicly. 

Gingrich, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, divorced his 
second wife, Marianne, in 2000 after his attorneys acknowledged Gingrich's 
relationship with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide 
more than 20 years younger than he is. 

His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, 
ended in divorce in 1981. Although Gingrich has said he doesn't remember it, 
Battley has said Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was 
recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery. 

Gingrich married Marianne months after the divorce. 

"There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that 
were wrong. But I was still doing them," he said in the interview. "I look back 
on those as periods of weakness and periods that I'm ... not proud of." 

Gingrich's congressional career ended in 1998 when he abruptly resigned from 
Congress after poor showings from Republicans in elections and after being 
reprimanded by the House ethics panel over charges that he used tax-exempt 
funding to advance his political goals. 

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