Two peas in a pod -- Newt and Haggard

These two headlines say it all:

The Advocate: Is This a Face You Can Trust? (Ted Haggard).

"I've had the thoughts and the desires sometimes - but never something compulsive since," he says. Probe further, and Haggard retreats a bit. He has firm talking points about Grant Haas, the former New Life volunteer who came forward as the Haggards were doing press interviews for The Trials of Ted Haggard in 2009. Ted had sent "inappropriate" text messages to the young man and masturbated in a Cripple Creek, Colo., hotel room that they shared during a field trip. "I'd appreciate it," he says, "if you remember that there was never any sexual contact between us, nor was their any contemplation of sexual contact on either of our parts." The sexual details of his life are now a matter between him and his wife, he says. He prompts a final scowl from the couple behind him when he adds that his marital intimacy is "vibrant, very satisfying.

and

TPM: Newt Gingrich's Second Wife Dishes Hard To Esquire: His Money Woes, His Philandering, His Meltdown.

Although I have to say, in spite of wanting to gag at Haggard's nonsense, it's Newt that takes the cake. It's below the fold.
You may want to sanitize your keyboard after reading this...

Gingrich, like several of his colleagues, were not immune from charges of infidelity.

In 1998, Salon reported that, much like his first marriage, Newt was dogged with rumors about alleged infidelities. In addition to rumors swirling around the Hill in 1997 and 1998, Gingrich faced accusations that he conducted an affair in 1977 based on his ability to deny that he'd "had sex" with a woman. From the 1995 Vanity Fair profile:

In the spring of 1977, [Anne Manning, who admitted to a relationship with Gingrich that started during his 1976 campaign] was in Washington to attend a census-bureaus workshop when Gingrich took her to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. He met her back at her modest hotel room. "We had oral sex," she says. "He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, "I never slept with her." Indeed, before Gingrich left that evening, she says, he threatened her: "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying."

A neighbor of his first wife, Jackie's, said he, too, saw Gingrich engaging in extramarital oral sex.

Kip Carter, who lived a few doors down from the couple, saw more than he wanted to. "We had been out working a football game --I think it was the Bowdon game-- and we would split up. It was a Friday night. I had Newt's daughters, Jackie Sue and Kathy, with me. We were all supposed to meet back at this professor's house. It was a milk-and-cookies kind of shakedown thing, buck up the troops. I was cutting across the yard to go up the driveway. There was a car there. As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me his little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.

That article came out, of course, before the sordid details of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and his artfully worded denials were public.