AZhitman wrote:I'm done caring about any candidate's personal life. It's just not relevant to how they'll govern.
The right messed it up for me with the "birther" controversy and the Left screwed it up with their treatment of Palin's family.
As long as they havent violated the law or blatantly lied to tbe American people, I'm unconcerned.
The problem I have with Newt is he is ethically challenged, both personal and in public. As Speaker of the House, he wasted 2+ years and a lot of government resources championing a silly witchhunt against Clinton during his second term for essentially getting hummers from a fat intern while he was married. Then it turns out Newt was not only banging a campaign worker during his witchhunt, he handed his wife divorce papers while she was in the recovery room from cancer surgery. Low life Hypocrite.
A non personal example recently came to light is his "non-lobbying". Newt strongly asserts he is not a lobbyist but a "visionary who traffics ideas." But according to the NY Times, in the eight years since he began his health care consulting business, he made millions of dollars helping companies gain access to state and federal officials. He charged as much as $200K per year to companies who belonged his "Center for Health Transformation" and set up meetings between his clients and key government officials. Uh, that's lobbying. Newt's explanation? He made so much money making speeches he didn't have to lobby.". Uh, sure.
Newt's got a lot of dirty laundry, including being reprimanded by Congress for some serious ethics and campaign finance violations. That dirt won't come out in the Republican debates, but you can bet much will be aired by the Dems if he wins the GOP nod. This is why I don't see him being electable, despite his being intelligent.
FWIW, I also see no candidates on either side that I like.
but I don;t think she is a tool bag. She is a bit of a militant liberal and obviously wrong about Newt's education. However, if I'm not mistaken, Newt has said some equally ignorant things about Rosie and her lifestyle over the years, especially when he was on that silly family values kick (while he was cheating on his wife by banging a campaign worker).. 
