What are Newt Gingrich’s two flaws? Serial “possible” campaigns for president and serial adultery. And guess what, it is his passion for America that drives him to do both.

In an interview with the Christian Broadcast Network, Gingrich says, “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,"

A bit hard to decipher but Gingrich is basically saying he cheated on two of his three wives because he worked so hard for the country he felt so passionately about. He admits to committing infidelity but he doesn’t take responsibility. He shifts the responsibility of his actions off onto the good ole U.S.A. I’ve heard a lot of excuses from men and women who have cheated but this is a new one for me.

Gingrich goes on to say, "And 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," Gingrich said. "I found that I felt compelled to seek God’s forgiveness. Not God’s understanding, but God’s forgiveness. I do believe in a forgiving God. And I think most people, deep down in their hearts hope there’s a forgiving God. Somebody once said that when we’re young, we seek justice, but as we get older, we seek mercy. There's something to that, I think."

Gingrich, after cheating on and destroying two women is now seeking mercy but in a roundabout way.

Why can’t he bring himself to say “I cheated on my wives?” It brings to mind John McCain and the way he tapped around actually saying what he had done to his first wife. When seeking forgiveness and mercy I would think a person would get more in return if willing to name what was done, not dance around the subject by saying, “I did things that were wrong.”

For those reading this who don’t know Gingrich’s marital history and his life of infidelity let me share what I know. During his first marriage he had an affair in 1977 with Anne Manning. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Manning revealed, "He prefers oral sex because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" She added that Gingrich threatened her: "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying. I don't claim to be an angel," Manning said, but "he's morally dishonest."

Gingrich’s first wife Jackie gingrich worked to put him through graduate school and was a loyal political wife during his two unsuccessful campaigns for Congress in 1974 and 1976. He repaid her by visiting her in the hospital after uterine cancer surgery and insisting that she discuss the terms of the divorce he wanted after meeting and falling in love with Marianne, the woman who would become his second wife.

Before marrying Marianne he refused to pay his alimony and child-support payments. The First Baptist Church in his hometown had to take up a collection to support the family he had deserted. I guess we can add deadbeat father to his list of “wrongs.”

During his marriage to Marianne he met his present wife, Callista and started an affair with her that continued for years. In 1999 when Marianne the second wife was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis Gingrich did the same to her that he had done to Jackie his first wife…surprised her with a divorce.

Confused yet? Gingrich must be very talented at compartmentalizing because, for the life of me I don’t understand how a man who is driven by such passion for his country can keep all his women straight.

Callista and Gingrich have been married since 2000 and he has recently converted to Catholicism. Hence the “seeking forgiveness and mercy” which most consider a PR move instead of a true change of or repentant heart.

In a recent interview with Esquire Magazine Marianne Gingrich (the second wife) said that Gingrich's do-what-I say, not what I do philosophy will be his undoing. "There's no way," she tells Richardson, of Gingrich becoming president. "He could have been president. But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don't like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new...you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way...He believes that what he says in public and how he lives doesn't have to be connected. If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president."

It would seem that although Gingrich would like to consider himself different from your average cheater he is just one of the many who have cheated on a spouse. They all rewrite history to suit the image they want to portray. They all have no idea who they are at the core and have certainly lost their way. And they all have a double standard and a since of arrogance that allows them to believe that living two separate lives is acceptable.

I’ll believe that Newt Gingrich is morally ready to run the country he feels so passionately about when he is able to express his “wrongs” in a way that shows true contrition and sorrow for the pain he caused others. I won’t be holding my breath for that to happen!