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stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 04:30 PM Jan 2012

Newt Family Values - Do as I say and not as I do, and do, and do...

To reassure voters, Newt Gingrich recently took a "no adultery pledge" from the Iowa-based group "The Family Leader".

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-12-12/news/30509625_1_newt-gingrich-iowa-group-pledge

I'm trying to figure out how that pledge was different from the vows he took in 1962 when he married Jackie Battley on whom he promptly cheated. Or the vow he took in 1981 when he married Marianne Ginther. Yes, he cheated on her. How about the one he took in 2000 when he married Callista Bisek? All during the past 50 years, he has taken pledges/vows and broken them during which time he was on the lecture and campaign circuit hawking family values.

It's kind of like the late Ted Bundy preaching non-violence, or George W. Bush speaking out against war and torture.

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Newt Family Values - Do as I say and not as I do, and do, and do... (Original Post) stevenleser Jan 2012 OP
Folks, please kick and rec this! stevenleser Jan 2012 #1
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