Reply #16: THIS WAS why he was so hated

[bobbieinok]

'Remember he tried to bluff Clinton on the budget; Clinton didn't play and the govt shut down and this HURT many people. Newt was the target of a firestorm that he deflected when he resigned.'

It wasn't a sex scandal, it was a 'politics as usual' scandal.

The sex came when Livingstone was going to be named Speaker and Larry Flint let it be known Livingstone had a big sex scandal in his closet.

The fact that Newt was having sex with an intern all the time he and the GOPers were playing holier-than-thou about Clinton was KNOW TO THE M$M BUT NOT TO THE PUBLIC. Media in its omnipotence didn't think public needed to be distracted from all-Monica-all-the-time.