Jack Zwick wrote:

http://USNDEMVET.blogspot.com/usndemvet/zizka-list.htm

.....Only after the election did the real facts come out. Susan Smith's
stepfather, Beverly Russell, was far from a Democrat: he was a figure
of some importance in the South Carolina Republican Party and in Pat
Robertson's Christian Coalition. This revelation alone invalidated
Gingrich's ludicrous argument; but on top of this it turned out that
Russell had been molesting Smith for years, starting when Smith was in
her middle teens.*

Oddly enough, once the reality became known, the media mostly dropped
the story. ....