Gingrich vs Cain, why did one drop out but the other is being "picked" on?
By EvanHunter
@EvanHunter (4026)
United States
January 21, 2012 11:16am CST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-gnWKiM4Y8 Do you feel that the media should ask questions about politicians personal life? Should our politicians be held to ethical standards that they endorse? Or is it more important that we find politicians to tell us what to do that don't follow their own moral codes (do as I say not as I do)? Where was Newt when Cain was being roasted alive by the media?
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@lampar (7584)
• United States
21 Jan 12
Every presidential candidate personal life and value is an open book for the public and media, there shouldn't be any doubt in the mind of the voters what type of person they are going to vote into the highest office of the land. It is a fair game for whoever want to run for this office no matter which political party he/she belong. There are way too often and many example in the past that elected politician always expect American people to do what they are told but not do as what he did, it is time for a change, the same old rule of game is no more relevant in a truly free nation anymore.
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@lampar (7584)
• United States
21 Jan 12
Every presidential condidate personal life and value is an open book for the public and media, there shouldn't be any doubt in the mind of the voters what type of person they are going to vote into the highest office of the land. It is a fair game for whoever who want to run for this office no matter which political party he/she is belong. There are way too often and many example in the past that elected politician always expect American people to do what they are told but not do as what he did, it is time for a change, the same old rule of game is no more relevant in a truly free nation anymore.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
22 Jan 12
Lampar, you're right that there have been too many examples of politicians living by the "Do as I say, not as I do" motto but rarely do you find one who has said so right out like Newt did, according to second wife Marianne. In the interview she gave in 2010 she said she'd asked Newt how he could do what he was doing, i.e. having an affair with a staffer half his age, while giving speeches about family values and morality and he said something like, "It doesn't matter what I do in my own life, it just matters what I say."
Annie
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@EvanHunter (4026)
• United States
21 Jan 12
"There are way too often and many example in the past that elected politician always expect American people to do what they are told but not do as what he did" - agree
"it is time for a change, the same old rule of game is no more relevant in a truly free nation anymore." - agree but I doubt that it will happen....
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
21 Jan 12
Good question. I think, though, that Cain wasn't quite as "seasoned" as Gingrich, also I think they hit him harder because they were more afraid of him because of his ethnicity. Obama thinks he represents that and knows he wouldn't have had a chance against a conservative like that.
Gingrich has been in politics long enough that he's prepared to throw up a shield when the dirt starts flying his way. He doesn't mind sounding off, either. Maybe Cain was too nice?
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@EvanHunter (4026)
• United States
21 Jan 12
I have more respect for a guy who made a mistake and worked things out with his wife than one who went the other way dumped his wife (twice) for the other woman and broke up his family. I guess that is just my odd sense of reasoning...
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