Newt, the question was not despicable, however, your actions have been.

At Thursday's presidential debate, moderator John King of CNN had the audacity to ask Newt Gingrinch about the allegations surfacing that day from his second wife, Marianne.  Newt, who was married to Marianne  and carrying on an affair with the good Catholic girl he later married at the time he was calling for the impeachment of Bill Clinton for extra-marital shenanigans, took extreme umbrage at the question, and replied, in part: "To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine."  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/gingrich-slams-ex-wife-close-despicable-anything-imagine-004300067.html

I don't need much of an imagination to think of far more despicable things.  In fact, I need no imagination at all - I merely have to look at Newt's life for despicable acts:  1) Leaving his first wife after she was diagnosed with cancer for mistress-turned-second-wife; 2) carrying on an affair with yet another woman while married to second wife all while calling for the impeachment of Bill Clinton for less than the egregious acts which Newt committed; 3) leaving the second wife after she was diagnosed with MS for the mistress-turned-third wife; 4) ethics violations costing him $300,000 as assessed by his own colleagues, which ethics violation information Newt refuses to disclose; 5) claiming to be a "Catholic" now, in part, thanks to his third wife, a "lifelong Catholic"  - not only is this claim despicable, it is offensive to true Catholics (true "lifelong Catholics" as his present wife has claimed to be, would not have been involved in an adulterous affair with a married man for years. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/newt-gingrich-catholic_n_854562.html ) .   All of the above is far more despicable to me than John King's question seeking a comment/explanation as to the charges.

If a man cannot keep a vow he made before God, his friends and family (more than one time, mind you), do you really expect him to keep true to the Oath of Office of the President of the United States?  If the people a man is supposed to love the most cannot trust his word and fidelity, then why should we the people trust him?

Hubris, of a far less degree than Newt holds, has been the fall of many a man.