Newt Gingrich: Can't keep pants buttoned, wants to be president

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, promulgated the neoconservative "Contract With America" legislative agenda after the Republicans swept into control of Congress in 1994...

Then things kind of went downhill. Like Tom DeLay would be 20 years later, Gingrich was repremanded by the House several times for ethics violations. His strategy to shut down the government and hold the country hostage backfired when the Daily News alleged he shut down the government after an alleged snub from President Clinton.

New York Daily News, November 16, 1995
See also: CNN story

Then, to top it all off, it came out that Gingrich -- leader of the pro-Family Values Republicans -- dumped his wife while she was in a hospital room recovering from cancer surgery. From a 1998 Salon.com article:

Jackie Gingrich raised the daughters, worked to put Newt through graduate school and was a loyal political wife during his two unsuccessful campaigns for Congress in 1974 and 1976. In his make-or-break 1978 race, Gingrich enlisted Jackie to attack his female opponent, who had announced that if elected she would commute to Washington and allow her family to remain in Georgia. At Gingrich's instigation, Jackie wrote a campaign letter declaring that Newt was a fine husband and would take his family with him, although his top aides already knew Gingrich was having affairs and the marriage was falling apart.

The most notorious incident in Gingrich's marriage -- first reported by David Osborne in Mother Jones magazine in 1984 -- was when he cornered Jackie in her hospital room where she was recovering from uterine cancer surgery and insisted on discussing the terms of the divorce he was seeking. Shortly after that infamous encounter, Gingrich refused to pay his alimony and child-support payments. The First Baptist Church in his hometown had to take up a collection to support the family Gingrich had deserted.

Now that he's thinking of running for President, who's he with now?

Also on his third marriage is potential candidate Newt Gingrich -- if you're keeping score, Newt's current wife is the young congressional staffer with whom he was having an affair while helping to engineer Bill Clinton's impeachment over a consensual affair... (Tom Paine.com)

Now he's aiming to be the President. Disgusting idea, but I think all people have to do is spread that Daily News cover around as widely as possible. No man can be president who has been caricatured on the cover of the Daily News as a baby throwing a tantrum.