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But it wasn't just an affair. It was an abuse of power. Afaik Newt wasn't having an affair with a staffer. So it's a false equivalence, you acorn.
How are you this dense? It doesn't matter if the acts are equivalent. One adulterer accusing another adulterer of adultery is hypocrisy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence#:~:text=False%20equivalence%20is%20a%20common,or%20ignorance%20of%20additional%20factors
Abuse of power (SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT) and cheating is what Clinton did. That's different than simple cheating. Like my very first comment thoroughly explains this. If you are a man still arguing against me for this false equivalence, I'm going to assume you don't care about rape and sexual assault. There's a WORLD OF DIFFERENCE to the VICTIM if the act was CONSENSUAL or not. Hope this helps!
It's definitely not dense at all to try to gaslight a woman into believing that sexual assault is the same as a consensual relationship just because they both involved cheating....
Putting words in my mouth, making wild accusations, on top of being incredibly disrespectful elsewhere in this thread, nice.
You can't deny that both Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton are adulterers. Newt Gingrich accusing Bill Clinton of adultery is hypocrisy on Newt Gingrich's part, because Newt Gingrich is an adulterer. That was the original point of the original comment. Saying a person does a bad thing is not the same as absolving them of all of their other transgressions, like you're trying to so pedantically suggest. If you'd like to continue this discussion I'd be happy to, but if you want to continue to accuse and divert, I will not be replying.
Wild accusations? Lol I'm quoting you
Find the quote where I said I don't care about rape or sexual assault.