The other day I pointed to Rudy' Giuliani's marital woes as a reason for having a problem with his candidacy. This disclosure about Newt Gingrich shows why he simply needs to stay out of the presidential race.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards."

Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.

Sorry, but even if one accepts his explanation, it still does not play well. The GOP cannot be the party of family values with someone like Newt as teh nominee -- and given the realities of the campaign trail, there is no way that his misdeeds will not be construed as hypocrisy by the media and the public at large.

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