Newt Gingrich, to no one's surprise, is a hypocrite

Newt Gingrich has admitted to having an affair during the Clinton era.

One of the most vocal proponents for impeachment has admitted to the same indiscretion that began the long, drawn out process of trying to defeat a president with a sex scandal, since they couldn't do it at the ballot box.

I know all the arguments about the impeachment. It wasn't about sex, it was about a lie. High officials should live by high standards.

Those are both true. Bill Clinton should have to live by high standards. Bill Clinton should never have lied in response to a question he had to have known was a set up. I don't argue these points.

Here's what has me upset: Newt Gingrich kept secret something for himself that he sought to use for political gain at the expense of another. The Republican party and its supporters turned an investigation of a real estate deal into a multi-year affair that went far beyond the widest reasonable scope of the investigation.

Newt Gingrich and his fellows willingly benefited from painting Bill Clinton as having poor morals and no self control when all the while their highest ranking member was having an extra-marital affair.

Every Republican should distance themselves from Gingrich. He should be an absolute pariah in Republican circles. He shouldn't be allowed within a mile of a Republican fund raiser. He should be made to feel the shame he has brought upon us for his ridiculous hypocrisy.

The problem is, he won't be. Once again, the Republican Party is going to couch this in terms of the impeachment. This isn't about infidelity. It's about perjury.

It wasn't about perjury, Mr. Gingrich, and you know it. It was, as it turns out, about lying to the American people in an attempt to further your own political goals. It was about trying to undermine a President you couldn't defeat in an election.