Of course, as Newt demonstrates, if we’re wealthy enough, we can ignore the laws. As Henry VIII shows, if you’re wealthy enough, you can start your own church, and make the laws suit you!

You do need the proverbial brass balls for this, though.

You’re right that there’s more than one layer to the hypocrisy, though.

He tried to do the same thing, but the Pope, in a rare (for the time) moment of integrity, refused to go along with it; the Pope had previously given Henry a dispensation to marry Katherine of Aragon. Henry’s response was to split the Church of England away from the Catholic church and have his bishop approve the divorce.

Three of Henry’s subsequent wives preceded him in death (two executed, one in childbirth). Those marriages were obviously not annulled. Henry did divorce his fourth wife.

Where Newt wins the hypocrisy award is that, while he was going after Bill Clinton for having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, Newt himself was having an affair with his eventual third wife while still married to his second wife. (Were it not for that and the circumstances under which he divorced his first wife, I would consider Newt’s marriage history irrelevant.) Several other Republican leaders of the time were either having affairs or on their second marriages. Clinton, meanwhile, is still married to his first wife.

Meanwhile, he’s really just an example of the hypocrisy and partisan blindness in USA politics.

Greg gets away with it because he’s not pretending to be the most moral guardian of family values. I.e no hypocrisy.

In the Little Rascal’s, the boys went through a stage where they disliked girls and actively avoided them, as in the “He-Man Woman Haters Club”. Is that typical in hunter-gatherer social structures? My guess is that it relates to women as property, so boys have to be careful to not be killed by the girl’s owner.

In females, pair bonding recapitulates parturition (mediated through oxytocin). In males pair bonding recapitulates territoriality (mediated through vasopressin).

Wow, I will have you know that Newt has only had one marriage. He paid the Catholic Church to have his first two fake marriages officially annulled, so they never happened.