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It turns out that Sarah Palin would vote for Gingrich in the South Carolina primary if she could because, she says, an extended GOP primary campaign will help the candidates become fully vetted.

"Iron sharpens iron, steel sharpens steel," Palin said. "In order to keep this thing going, I'd vote for Newt."

"I would want this to continue — more debates, more vetting of candidates, because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate that was not vetted to the degree that he should have been, so that we know who his associations and his pals represented and what went into his thinking."

At first glance, you might think Palin was talking about herself, one of the least vetted vice presidential nominees in the post McGovern-Eagleton debacle of 1972.

In reality, of course, she was talking about Barack Obama. Yes, the same Barack Obama who had been thoroughly vetted after having run for president for 18 months before Palin was even chosen as the GOP vice presidential nominee.

Palin herself received virtually no vetting before becoming John McCain's running mate. In fact, he had only one face-to-face conversation with the then-Alaska governor before offering her the job on Aug. 28, 2008.

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Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as President, his second ex-wife Marianne told ABC News, saying his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage.
In her first television interview since the 1999 divorce, to be broadcast tonight on Nightline, Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich.

He said/She said?
He said/She said?

A day after he told his wife about his affair with Callista Bisek in May 1999, the former House speaker delivered a speech titled "The Demise of American Culture" to a group of Republican women in Pennsylvania, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Give it up mr grape

I know the left is desperate when they have to exploit a divorce that happened over ten years ago.

Yeah well everybody knew about Newt cheating with his wife sick in the hospital. We didn't know about how Newt the stud wanted to be a swinger. See, now you know.

maybe he was,... how did you put it edge? ... ''born that way''

GINGRICH'S PATRIOTISM LED HIM TO CHEAT ON HIS WIVES....
It seems likely that disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) realizes his scandalous personal life will affect his presidential ambitions. The question, then, is what he intends to do about it.

He's not the first presidential candidate to run as an admitted adulterer, but Gingrich's past -- multiple wives, multiple affairs, divorces under painful circumstances -- is arguably the ugliest of any presidential hopeful in American history. As David Frum noted, "It's not the infidelity. It's the arrogance, hypocrisy, and -- most horrifying to women voters -- the cruelty. Anyone can dump one sick wife. Gingrich dumped two."

Aware of his problem, Gingrich has a new line to explain his misdeeds. Here's the explanation he offered radical TV preacher Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. (thanks to R.B. for the tip)

"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them."


If Gingrich thinks the public will find this persuasive, he's completely lost his mind.

He cheated on his wives, in part because he worked "too hard" for the country? His excuse for a scandalous personal life is patriotism?

Hey now, that's funny.
Newt is on record saying that he cheated because he worked to hard as patriot:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archiv ... 028355.php