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Christiane Amanpour Asks Rick Santorum If Voters Should Hold Gingrich’s Past Infidelities Against Him

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When talking about the rise of Newt Gingrich in current Republican politics, one subject that does not get brought up as much as it used to is his three marriages and his infidelity to his first two wives. Being one of the more family values-oriented candidates in the presidential race, Rick Santorum was asked on This Week today if voters should factor in Gingrich’s past indiscretions in their current judgments of his ability to be president.

Santorum told Christiane Amanpour that it’s important for voters to understand the character of every candidate running for president, and Gingrich is no exception.

“I think they have to make a decision based upon the person’s entire record, and certainly character counts. And I think, you look at… you know, I’ve been married 21 years, I have seven children. That’s a factor that people are going to look at and should look at when it comes to the person who’s going to have to lead the country.”

RELATED: Newt Gingrich Admits He Did ‘Things That Were Wrong’ Because He Loves America

When pushed by Amanpour on Gingrich’s positions on social issues, Santorum argued that the former Speaker never prioritized controversial social issues and only goes with positions that rank “80 to 90 percent in the polls.” Whereas he believes Gingrich’s strategy is to find the pulse of America and bring himself closer to it, Santorum argued that his position is to state what you believe and then hope what you say resonates with enough people to get them to study your character more.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    Whenever I watch Christine Armpour I can only shake my head and wonder how the heck Jake Tapper didn’t get this job.

  • Mo Fokker

    I am not sure why Santorum hasn’t got more traction.  He doesn’t seem to have that much baggage, and his rhetoric should appeal to both teabaggers and fundies.

  • Scotty

    The people that suggest to this lassie that she should consider a hijab are just mean.

  • Henry Wood

    Why hasn’t he gotten more traction?  It might be a frothy combination of feces and lube…

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how that whole Google thing is working out…

  • Anonymous

    I’m a big Tapper fan, too.

  • Anonymous

    Because he’s unlikeable and waaaaaay to conservative for about 80% of the country.

  • Anonymous

    No.

    *hits you over head with rolled-up newspaper*

    No.

    :-)

  • Anonymous

    That could be said of virtually all of them. 

  • Anonymous

    I dunno. Let’s google it and find out.

  • Anonymous

    Jake Tapper wasn’t liberal enough for ABC News.

    Annanpour is basically a stooge for Obama, which is what they wanted.

  • Anonymous

    Is she George Stupidopolis’ real mother? This is the sad, fu cked up state of American liberal media. A known terrorist sympathizer get’s to ask sane, grown ups asinine liberal questions.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    She’s British, Dingbat.

  • Anonymous

    You have a typical birth defected liberal obsession with all things anal and homosexual. The “Wood” is stuck in yer butt!

  • Anonymous

    Howdy Muuther Fukker! Although teabagging is obviously your ‘cup of tea’, it is safe to say that unlike you, Santorum has never had a manballsack in his mouth. Now, since you are a member of the Richy Maddow fan club, why don’t you ask her about mans ‘undies’?

  • Anonymous

    Howdy Muuther Fukker! Although teabagging is obviously your ‘cup
    of tea’, it is safe to say that unlike you, Santorum has never had a
    manballsack in his mouth. Now, since you are a member of the Richy
    Maddow fan club, why don’t you ask her about mans ‘undies’?

    in reply to Mo Fokker

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    They should definitely hold Newt’s infidelities against him!! Especially when Newt is going around preaching about “Family Values” and judging others on how they live their lives!!

    Newt is a fraud!!

  • Ricci Dats Me

    LOL why ask anyone when the poll numbers tell you the answer. Santorum doest matter! The thousands of people supporting Newt after dropping support for Herman Cain tells you all you need to know. Herm is leaving, Newt is rising! GOP PARTY SLOGIN?? Don’t listen to us, just watch what we do!! Dance Herman Dance!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Only sort of Brit. Her parents were tight with the deposed ex-Shah of Iran, so she’s quite Ye Olde Schoole money-connected. 

    And once again I agree with G-D in Tapper – he’s a real reporter, where Ms. Amanpour has been a privileged sell out for decades. 

    (But I certainly don’t get the suggestion that her hosting This Week is GOOD  for Obama; she’s maybe the worst choice of any Sunday With The Republicans host not already on Fuppet News. ABC News goes two dozen deep before they get to someone anywhere near as big a royalist sell-out as Amanpour.)

  • Rex derWunderGott

    His career came to a Savage end. And he deserves it, every last drop.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Hmm – seems you missed the news. Google “Santorum” and you will find out where this is all coming from.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Very true image: every time I hear or see the name “Santorum”, I really do picture him with a mouthful of manballsack.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    yeah, you’re not angry!!!!!

    Hilarious!

  • Rex derWunderGott

    I just checked. Still #1 with a projectile. 

    Oops: I accidentally helped keep it there: http://spreadingsantorum.com/

    Oops, I accidentall did it again.

    Oops …

  • Anonymous

    The real question is why Christiane Amanpour, who is about
    as bright as a sack of hammers, is asking grownups questions at all? Oh, that’s
    right –she’s on ABC. Nuf said. Carry on….

  • musa qala

    Amanpour, the daughter of radical islamacists, sits on ABC and lectures the rest of us?

  • Anonymous

    But but you forget that he became a Catholic confessed his sins and has been forgiven.  So now I guess he can still preach to the choir.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not the infidelities that really matter. It’s the hypocrisy. 

  • Anonymous

    Because he is a total whack-job who brought his dead baby home for his kids to hold.  Even teabaggers are not that crazy.  At least I don’t think so!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    True, but Newt still seems to be sinning!!  =)

  • Anonymous

    ya it is called conservative scandels…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XI7SYPIIG7I62LWUSMHNRFK5XA Brian

    You are kidding, right?  Santorum is more likely than anyone (except maybe Limbaugh) to have garaged a few manballsacks in his oral cavity.  His obsession with gays is all the proof I need.

  • Anonymous

    You do mean, British Dingbat, right? You added a comma where it shouldn’t have been.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    MMMMMMMMMMM

    Republican Love.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    HAHAHAHAHA

    I see what you did there.
    every last drop

    HA!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    WOW!

    I did not know.

    I guess with all of the other information on google, its easy for this one to slip by.

    Creepy.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    If you are not careful, you are going to get it everywhere.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    MMMMMMMMMMM

    Republican Love.

  • Anonymous

    Newtie saying he did things wrong because he loves America was the poorest excuse I have every heard for lying and cheating.  He did things wrong because he is pond scum!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Well the infidelities sort of matter.  Like divorcing his first wife while she was dying of cancer so he could marry his mistress.  That kind of matters.  Shows what slime he really is!

  • Anonymous

    Well, of course the pro-adultery folks would move over to Newtie.  He’s a perfect fit!

  • Anonymous

    I think you need to change your name from not angry!  Listen to yourself!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    The Slimy Newt

    A slimy neocon who calls himself Newt
    Has always played the globalist skin flute
    He gets on his knees
    And does what they please
    As he lines his pockets with their pilfered loot.

    With women, Newt’s always been a smooth dancer
    “Replace ‘em with an upgrade” is always his answer
    Which caused him, of course
    To present his divorce
    To his first wife as she lay dying of cancer.

    It seems Speaker Gingrich didn’t give a hoot
    For his family after he gave ‘em the boot
    He came up completely short
    Never paying child support
    For the entire length of the dispute.

    Next Newt married a girl named Marianne
    Whom he quickly decided to can
    When she got a diagnosis
    Of Multiple Sclerosis
    Which threw a wrench in his political plan.

    At the time Marianne announced she was sick
    Gingrich was boning his aide, Calista Bisek
    Calista played Newt’s harmonica
    As he blasted Clinton for gettin’ a Monica
    ‘Cause hypocrisy has always been Newt’s schtick.
    ___________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney
     

  • Anonymous

    who are you?

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes, good old Christianne – one standard for conservatives, another for democrats.  Christianne, a member of the NOW stood silent when Clinton abused an INTERN, stood silent when Clinton was called out on rape, and stood silent when Clinton and his clowns introduced the “nuts and sluts” defense for his philandering.

    Honestly – why did ABC give her this job?  Pathetic excuse for a jounalist, a woman, and an honest broker for anything.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO at “fundies”

    Haaaa

  • Anonymous

    Why does this haughty, French-sounding & French-looking media hack expend so much energy masturbating to her beloved OBAMO?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    A candidate who has the voters with the values that all of them say they hold dear. Problem is there is too much un-warranted hate for him and the fact that he is in the other party. The comment below the drawing would be funny except that it is so true.  http://blogs.trb.com/news/opinion/chanlowe/blog/2011/12/chan_lowe_the_solution_for_val.html

  • Anonymous

    I guess it was her cover-girl looks.

  • Anonymous

    What does her being British have to do with being a stooge for Obama? Do you have to be American to be a stooge?

  • Anonymous

    Ms. Amanpour, did you hold BillyJoeBob Clinton’s multiple, and I do mean multiple, infidilities against him when you were with cnn? No, none of you lefties ever go after your own. Nice double standard abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, msnbc, salon.com, the Nation, the Washington Post, NY Times, Politico, Huffington Post and the other far left wing so called info sources has when it comes to the Right and Left.   

  • us995

    ABC needs to get rid of that thing

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    He made the kids hold the fetus and sing to it.

  • Anonymous

    Her beauty is only matched by her intelligence.

  • Anonymous

    You are so wrong on that. Clinton got ripped across the board for his bad behavior. Certainly the public gave due consideration to Clinton’s character before deciding on who to vote for. He still won, but then look who he was running against.

  • Anonymous

    GRB, you have a standard approach to these stories. If you do not like it, if it seems too liberal, rip the author.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    I hope you understand the difference. No “lefties” did not hold Clinton’s crap against him. Only the strange “right” preaches God and family values as if they are paramount to the success of a candidate. So naturally when the “right” has a candidate get bounced from a race due to sex related issues, AND then throws a majority of support to the next best infidelity candidate, “lefties” have to wonder exactly how retarded are these idiot “righty” folks. Clinton and most of the “lefty” candidates that have had marital issues, unlike the mighty dense “right” do not run as grandmasters of family values and keepers of Americas morality chastity belt. The left apparently believes in history and find proof in the record that for thousands of years world leaders great and bad alike have marital issues that did not effect their ability to govern. Meanwhile, the Santa Claus embracing childlike “right” will drop a front running candidate due to marital issues and immediately put their faith in the most factually immoral marital candidate they can find. If the NEW GOP wants to be taken serious, this type of retarded action needs to be ended ASAP. If not, then stay silly and dance dance dance

  • Anonymous

    [I am not sure why Santorum hasn't got more traction.]
    That’d be the lube . . .

  • Anonymous

    Clinton never claimed to be from the excessively moral wing of the country. Newt does….

  • Anonymous

    SHOULD WE HOLD OBAMA TO TASK FOR NOT LETTING US KNOW WHAT HE IS HIDING? AFTER ALL, SEALING YOUR SCHOOL RECORDS AT OVER $1 MILLON DOLLAR COST SAYS THAT YOU ARE HIDING SOMETHING VERY BIG. ARN’T YOU CURIOUS? OR MAYBE JUST BRAIN DEAD!!!!!!

  • Mari Johnson

    I am a life long Republican but the funniest thing I have heard is that Christianne stood silent about Clinton.  Actually,all news outlets made the entire world know about the mess with Clinton.  Frankly, after all that rage about Clinton’s behavior from our party, how anyone in the party considers Gingrich electable on that very basis is strange to me. 

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