OMG, that never occurred to me. He seemed like a decent guy who was perhaps out of his element. Why did Newt Gingrich push for him to become Speaker after Bob Livingston resigned?
Was it Newt’s doing?
They were looking for someone who no one would object to. Like Anthony Kennedy when he was named to the Supreme Court after Bork and Ginsberg.
No one thought Hastert would ever have a bimbo problem, and they were obviously right. I thought he was a decent guy, I’d never have guessed he was a buggerer of boys.