12 March 2011

U.S.: Off Topic But Funny; Conservative Newt Gingrich Claims His Serial Adultery...Was Patriotic.

NYTIMES/ G.COLLINS/
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NYT:    "The (U.S.) presidential race is barely under way, but already we have had our first Big Thought. I am speaking, of course, of Newt Gingrich’s suggestion that he was driven into serial adultery by hard work and patriotism.
...( Newt)Gingrich is asked about his personal life more often than most politicians. If you’re on your third wife, cheated perpetually on the first two, and are running for the Republican presidential nomination as a social conservative, these things come up.
...Newt was quite forthcoming about both God’s readiness to forgive him and the much, much better lifestyle he has embraced now that he’s found true love with Wife No. 3, converted to Catholicism and “learned an immense amount.”