Gingrich "A family values crusader at the time of the Republicans' Clinton penis scavenger hunt"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Among all of the surreal events that have occurred so far in the 2012 election, we haven't seen Jon Stewart get quite as worked up as he did on Monday night's "Daily Show" over something Newt Gingrich said at last Thursday's debate in South Carolina.

When CNN moderator John King began the debate by asking Gingrich about his second wife's accusations that he wanted an open marriage, Gingrich responded with an attack on the moderator himself. He said King's decision to ask a Presidential candidate about such matters was, "as close to despicable as anything [he] can imagine."

"I think you've got a pretty good imagination, 'despicability' wise," Stewart responded, in reference to the presidential candidate's well-documented past of leaving sick wives. At this point, Stewart was exasperated over Gingrich's audacious response as well as John King's failure to call him out on it. Stewart explained, quite hysterically, why it made him as frustrated as it did:

"All (King) has to do is point out the hypocrisy of a family values crusader who presided over Congress at the time of the Republicans' 'Clinton penis scavenger hunt' suddenly finding that kind of questioning of a Presidential candidate unseemly! Point out that [Gingrich] insists that gay people would sully the sanctity of marriage -- whilst being a career marriage sully-er!"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/jon-stewart-newt-gingrich-south-carolina-debate-hypocrisy_n_1227547.html?ref=mostpopular

[chill_wind]

1. Newt toad

totally wrote the book on "despicability". Can't believe he continues to plague American politics, still, after all these years.

[raouldukelives]

2. I tried pointing this out on Sunday.

Speaking with some friends, an older very conservative Christian couple. Apparently the "open marriage" scandal was created entirely by the grand left wing conspiracy of billionaire newspaper and media owners.
That Newt didn't leave a sick wife. Another media lie. In reality it was actually Edwards that did it and he is a monster.
Finally I was left with the Clinton witch hunt. I pointed out that Newt was cheating while railing against Clinton and that at the very least he should remove the log from his own eye before speaking.
They both looked at each other, one said "Hmmmm" and that was the end of that conversation.

[zinnisking]

3. Nobody except for the American family values crusading electorate could make a two time divorce` and

adulterer into a victim and choose him as their guy.

If their was ever any doubt that "family values" was a phoney issue of rank-and-file Republicans right from the start, John King and the rest of the mainstream should take the SC audience's reaction and the electorate's decision as a lesson and finally stop treating it as a legitimate concern of right-wingers. But they won't.