Biden Addresses Gingrich’s Marital Past
EmailVice President Joe Biden hesitantly weighed in on the controversy surrounding Newt Gingrich’s marital past today, addressing the accusation that the Republican presidential candidate wanted an “open marriage” with his former wife.
“I have no comment,” Biden initially told Ryan Seacrest in an interview on KIIS-FM when asked about the allegation from Gingrich’s second wife.
“Look this is quicksand,” Biden added. “I think that Newt Gingrich, as we all are, is going to be judged by the voters in the primary on the totality of who he is, and that includes everything. People make judgments about our character. They make judgments about our positions. I just don’t have any comment.”
Gingrich has denied the claim and scolded the “negative nature” of the news media, saying it makes it harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
“This is not an endeavor for the faint-hearted,” Biden told Seacrest. “The sincerity meter of the American public is pretty well attuned. I think the one thing that the public punishes a public official for is if he or she turns out to be different than what they advertise themselves to be.”
“And, by the way, we don’t have to answer every question we’re asked. We may get penalized for that answer, and that’s for the public to judge,” Biden said. “You know, if you can’t stand the heat, you shouldn’t be in the kitchen.”
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Oohhh wow, he crawled back out of the woodwork. I thought Obama told him to lay low and keep his mouth shut? This guy is trying to raise taxes and the rest of us want them lowered and live within your means. He would make a good bug spray commercial
Posted by: Jim Rod | January 23, 2012, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
JIM ROD, not to worry Pres.Obama is considering dumping Biden and make Hillary VP
Posted by: Lizzie | January 23, 2012, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Yawn. There’s five minutes of my life I’ll never get back again.
Posted by: Susan | January 23, 2012, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
““They make judgments about our positions. I just don’t have any comment.”
What’s wrong with Biden saying this? People will make judgments on your past character no matter what. Newt’s personal life is not an issue; it’s his record in Congress that is, who even the republicans say was chaotic and controversial.
He seems to forget that President Clinton shut the government down twice because Newt submitted budget busting bills that had more pork than Miss Piggy. Newt has a habit of taking sole credit for things he never did.
Posted by: tmferretti | January 23, 2012, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
You just can’t seem to satisfy people these days. Joe Biden is a kinder and gentler person than Newt. Newt is interested in Newt and forgets what his past means to some people who take commitments seriously. Commitments to marriage and other things. Any maarriage can fail, but he was responsible for his failing because of his lack of commitment. People don’t change, they adjust and who they were is still there. Newt has a few catch phrases he now uses to get attention from the fringe people today. Kenyanism and food stamps. I hate to break the news to him but Obama was not the food stamp president…Bush was and besides most people are not on them because they want to be. They probably had to take part time jobs to keep their families fed…what is wrong with that…where is his new christianity? Joe Biden will always be a better person than Newt because he has principles. They usually come from within….and don;t have to be spoken about. His comments that he cheated and did these things was because he worked too hard for this country. There are many people who work hard for this country who do not cheat on there wives…he needs to blame the person really responsible….himself…then he will finally have come credit.
Posted by: Talmag | January 23, 2012, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Both Newt and Romney are creepy.
Posted by: Sarah | January 23, 2012, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
Since coming home,Newt has benefited from the Church’s emphasis on redemption-the belief that even the worst sinner can return to God by actions,penance and a will to return to the path of rightousness.Why is that so hard for the secularists to accept? Why must hatred of the sinner continue when we really should be hating the sin?. St Augstine of Hippo was a depraved,narcisisstic youth guilty of great sin-and yet after conversion he became one of the greatest Catholic thinkers how give his life to God and our holy Mother the Church.
Posted by: Nephron | January 23, 2012, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
Nephron, I’ve seen no evidence that Newt isn’t still a narcissistic and erratic sinner who bears false witness and worships false gods (including himself, lol. ) Why should anyone /believe a word he says. Have you seen Mitt’s list of Newt quotes? The dude is someone his own party’s establishment is calling an embarrassment.
Joe Biden’s remarks were very restrained.
Posted by: Jen | January 23, 2012, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm
Romney should run as a 3rd party candidate.
The republican electorate have shown that they are mad – in all sense of the word.
Gingrich is egomaniac. Santorum wants to outlaw birth control. Ron Paul is totally out of touch with reality. No independent is ever going to vote for any of those guys.
Go Romney as a 3rd party candidate!
Posted by: welldirected | January 24, 2012, 12:39 am 12:39 am