Former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich admits to James Dobson in a show to be broadcast today that, yes, he was having an extramarital affair during the time he was prosecuting the Clinton impeachment.  Read the Associated Press story here.

OK.  Newt is an ethically challenged American.  He married his high school Geometry teacher and had an affair and divorced her for a woman 20 years younger, who he told he was going to divorce while she was in hospital recovering from cancer surgery.  He chased out Jim Wright, Demo speaker, for a book deal ethics rap and then went under as speaker on just about the exact same ethics charges.

I’m not surprised Newt was having an affair.  I’m not even surprised he was doing so during the Clinton impeachment.  I always thought between Henry Hyde’s 40 year old “youthful indescretion” and the natural inclination of politicians to wanderlust that the whole GOP tut-tut attitude toward Clinton and Monica was strictly show for the faithful. 

No, what makes me want to puke is Newt’s insistence that he isn’t a hypocrite.