And in a strange perverted way, Newt’s right - his message sold and resonated with a whole lot of people despite its cognitive dissonance and Newt’s own pecadillos and affairs that were anything but true to the holy vows of matrimony with his wife through good times and bad, in sickness and in health.

It’s the same reasoning that clouds the judgment of all too many politicians on both sides of the aisle. You’ve got people like Spitzer in NY who thought that they could on the one hand prosecute hookers, but on the other go ahead and bed call girls regularly when he wasn’t going home to his wife and daughters. The big difference is that Newt was pushing an agenda that was based significantly on family values, whereas Spitzer was pushing law and order.

In both cases, they broke the public trust, and neither should be trusted again.