Word: newt
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...that he began his public life in Reagan's Justice Department. Mitt Romney invokes Reagan's example to explain his change of heart on abortion. John McCain calls himself a Reagan Republican, citing the fact that he entered politics in the early 1980s as a Reagan supporter. Newt Gingrich, waiting on the sidelines, compares the current Republican leadership unfavorably to Reagan - whom he supported as an upstart G.O.P. Representative...
...Newt Gingrich confesses his serial marital sins to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and wins absolution; Mitt Romney admits the error of his earlier tolerance of abortion rights. John Edwards seldom misses a chance to repent of his vote for the war, to highlight Hillary Clinton's refusal to do likewise. As for paying for past mistakes, Barack Obama took care of $400 worth of parking tickets left over from his law-school days--two weeks before he announced his candidacy...
Then again, the Republicans are fielding a motley crew right now: if you count Newt Gingrich, who'll probably join the fray in the fall, the four leading candidates have had nine marriages among them: Giuliani three, Gingrich three, McCain two and Romney one. The Republican faithful are left with a devil of a choice: moderate candidates who live like liberals, or religious conservatives who talk like liberals...
...cares whom Newt Gingrich was sleeping with when? James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, cares. He thinks we should all care. He asked Gingrich about it recently on his radio show...
...Some on the right have been keeping a light in the window for the last conservative to have led a revolution. Newt Gingrich recently confessed his past marital infidelity on the Christian radio show of James Dobson, admitting he was carrying on with the House aide who became his third wife even as he was lambasting Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In the upside-down leap of reasoning that this campaign season has wrought in the movement, hanging his dirty sheets from the window was enough to convince everyone that Gingrich is running - and landed him an invitation...