JoeB131
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I see that kind of turnaround as admirable on a personal level. I do not see it as a qualification for president.
As Christians, we are not to judge his morality. As citizens, we ARE to judge his qualification for office.
Cheating on his wife does not mean he would be unable to run the country. However, how badly he reacted under pressure raises warning flags. He's all roguish smiles and bold answers when he's relaxed. When the pressure is on, he goes schizo. At least that's how some accounts make it sound, and some of what I've seen from him makes it easy to believe.
I think you are doing nothing more than trying to justify that more REpublicans would rather vote for Newt, Warts and all, than your guy.
He and his image people are doing sleight of hand now. Gingrich repented + the media are biased = Gingrich is qualified for president?
To me it is not adding up.
The jury is still out. It's good that some of the people who support him can do it with enthusiasm. It would be sad for his prospects if no one could. But it's going to take a lot more than that to build a majority. Comparing experience, temperament, ideas, and yes intangibles related to personal standards and gut feelings, and a whole lot of people in the middle will be queasy about this:
and will cling to this:
If you are going to base it on whether someone makes you feel "queasy", then Romney weith his family of Stepford Mormons is going to look just as odd as Newt and his wife.
I think the problem is that a lot of conservatives see the hypocrisy of a media that made all sorts of excuses for Clinton and Edwards jumping on Newt when the guy already said he was sorry. I mean, I still remember how the Media in 1998 released a study showing most people don't consider a blowjob sex so Clinton wasn't really lying. Or how they released another study showing lying was healthy for you.