Tom DeLay claimed recently that his adultery was better than Newt Gingrich's because at least he didn't do it while they were prosecuting Bill Clinton for lying about his own adulterous affair. Yeah, if you're going to cheat on your wife, it's much better to get it out of the way before you start demonizing someone else for doing the same thing.
Here's DeLay on his moral superiority to Gingrich and why his adultery was better:
"I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial. There's a big difference."
Do you think there's a big difference? I wonder if his wife thought there was big difference?
He also said it was okay because he later found Jesus.
"Also, I had returned to Christ and repented my sins by that time."
I wonder if his wife agreed with that rationale, too. Try telling this to your wife -- No, it's okay honey, I found Jesus after I slept with that other woman.
Would that excuse work for you?
I might have helped to find Jesus before he jumped in the sack with someone he wasn't married to, but it's funny how that always works. Jesus is usually hiding until right after someone gets caught doing something really bad. And then all of a sudden people find him around every corner.
What do you think -- is there such a thing as better adultery?
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Whose Adulterous Affair is Worse -- Newt Gingrich's or Tom DeLay's?
Posted May 30th 2007 2:36PM by Cenk Uygur
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1. I don't think Clinton "lied about an affair" is appropriate. He perjured himself in front of a grand jury to deny someone who was accusing him of sexual harrassment her constitutional rights.
I don't give a crap about any of their affairs. Why is the left always harping on them?
Mel at 2:55PM on May 30th 2007
2. He, He, He, He, He....
Betty at 3:21PM on May 30th 2007
3. Clinton's crime was perjury. What kind of example does that set for our country when the President of the United States claims it is ok to lie under oath if it is a matter you don't want others to know the truth about.
The affair is a matter he must deal with between himself and his wife and God.
His crime of perjury is made all the worst by his position of being the #1 citizen of this country. During his second term in office we saw a large increase in "lying" type crimes in the corporate world. These people were caught up in the corrupted mentality set by our president at the time.
Mike D at 4:57PM on May 30th 2007
4. Oh-of course there is! Not. Leave it up to a politician to come up with that one. The Hollywood celebs have the current hold on alcohol/drug mess ups with immediate "cures" of therapy; politicians it is affairs and Jesus/religion. If this were normal, everyday people: we'd be in jail in the first case and thrown out on our homes in the latter. All of them are idiots-unfortunately-almost all of them in the political world are no different-they have all cheated and lied. I just can't believe he'd be so stupid to say such a thing-now there are degrees of "cheating."
Susan at 5:02PM on May 30th 2007
5. Mike and Mel=answer the ?. Is there better adultery?
Clinton is not a part of the ?!
Susan at 5:04PM on May 30th 2007
6. Hey Mike and Mel, pull your head out from under your right wing. YOU ARE MISSING A GOOD PART OF REALITY. The question was about DELAY AND GINGRICH. Now Mike and Mel, do you want to answer the question ?? which Adultery was worse... Gingrich or Delays ????
Richard at 6:00PM on May 30th 2007
7.
Two examples of christian family values: Newt and Delay.
Enrique at 6:21PM on May 30th 2007
8. The replys by the obvious republican right wing nuts show how it is possible G.W Bush was elected twice. I have never heard that one before Mike, but its nice to know lying was invented by Clinton. It is such a shame BUSH was such an apt pupil and has advanced this invention of Clintons to an art form.
Richard at 6:12PM on May 30th 2007
9.
AN AFFAIR IS AN AFFAIR IS AN AFFAIR.......
ONE IS NOT WORSE THAN THE OTHER.......
linda at 6:32PM on May 30th 2007
10. BEING A CATHOLIC, I'M SICK OF HEARING OF SINNERS FINDING CHRIST SO NOW THEY GOT A PASS ON THEIR PAST! SO I GUESS ITS OK TO KEEP USING THAT AS AN EXCUSE FOR BEING A HYPOCRITE!
JIM FEDERICI at 6:35PM on May 30th 2007
11. Assholes all. Sendahole.com.
Fred at 7:30PM on May 30th 2007
12. Bill lide about a blow job .Bush lide about war that we can't pay for and loss of life's needlesley. so tell me who's did the bab'ist thing. Thank's G W
Gus at 7:36PM on May 30th 2007
13. look at both of them newt delay, you would have to use strong force to get me to do either one i think they should do each other
amber lynn at 8:08PM on May 30th 2007
14. Which adulterous affair was worse? Well actually, to be honest, I think adultery is an incredibly personal moral failure and it is very hard for anyone of us to judge the relative merit of one adulterous situation over another. Lets look at this objectively. Clinton had fellatio committed upon him by a 22 year old female intern in the Oval Office while he was eating a pizza. He then denied under oath that he had ever had "sex" with "that woman", later saying that fellatio is not sex. Hmmmm! A very interesting viewpoint.
Then we have the other two winners, DeLay and Gingrich. These two clowns are saddled with the burden of belonging to the political party that feels it has a corner on morality. They have both been in very highly important leadership positions within that group of ersatz saints. To be honest with you, I really see this entire spread of events across this particular field of human personalities as a comedy of errors. None of these men are moral giants. All of these men are professional politicians, which is to say, in their world the end justifies the means. Always. At every juncture. No exceptions.
So I ask all of you, whether you are on the Right or the Left of the American political spectrum; must we really make a distinction of any kind between these three professional talkers?
Tom Barnes at 8:34PM on May 30th 2007
15. Newt did it twice. The first time he served his first wife divorce papers in the hospital when she was coming out of cancer surgery. He had been having an affair with with the woman who was to become his 2nd wife.
Richard Watson at 9:03PM on May 30th 2007