Partially Driven by How Passionately I Felt about This Country

... I started writing this blog.

Newt Gingrich's passionate feelings about this country, on the other hand, led him into an affair with one of his Congressional aides. She's now his third wife. Newt Gingrich wants to be President, some passions even a third wife can't cool.

The rest of us I suspect will be able to curb our enthusiasm if Newt he keeps talking like this:

"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. What I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them. I found that I felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness. Not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness."

With phrases like "partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country" and "things happened in my life that were not appropriate" he could teach Bill Clinton a thing or two about dissembling. No word on whether he sought his second wife's forgiveness, or his first's. At least he wasn't trapped in situation ethics, that would be really unforgivable.