Posted on 01/18/2012 6:34:27 PM PST by advance_copy
Bob Walker, a senior Gingrich adviser, says the campaign will fight back. “It is pretty nasty to use personal tragedy for political exploitation,” he says. “That was a very bitter divorce, and you’re talking about somebody who is still, probably, very bitter.”
Below, Gingrich’s daughters issue a memo to ABC News:
To: ABC News Leadership
From: Kathy Lubbers, Jackie Cushman
Date: January 18, 2012
The failure of a marriage is a terrible and emotional experience for everyone involved. Anyone who has had that experience understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events.
We will not say anything negative about our father’s ex-wife. He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves.
ABC News or other campaigns may want to talk about the past, just days before an important primary election. But Newt is going to talk to the people of South Carolina about the future– about job creation, lower taxes, and about who can defeat Barack Obama by providing the sharpest contrast to his damaging, extreme liberalism. We are confident this is the conversation the people of South Carolina are interested in having.
Our father is running for President because of his grandchildren – so they can inherit the America he loves. To do that, President Obama must be defeated. And as the only candidate in the race, including Obama, who has actually helped balance the national budget, create jobs, reform welfare, and cut taxes and spending, Newt felt compelled to run – to serve his country and safeguard his grandchildren’s future.
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whoa there, yeah well we have a really really crummy bunch of clowns running for president
Uh...my pick is the one who doesn't want high office.
It’s just rehashed old story that she already told.
Dog aint gonna hunt.
It may end up helping Gingrich, with the liberal Media now coming after the conservative.
Do people really not remember what a wild ride the 60s and 70s were? In a whole bunch of ways?
Rather...who IS the one who wants high office.
Newt has owned his past failures. Marianne needs to move on with her life. She is enjoying her 15 mins. She got a Drudge siren. That is hugh and series.
Drudge has sunk to new levels. Drudge gave Marianne of Gilligan's Island his RED SIREN in January Republican Primary. Drudge.... is a RINO at best.
I’m for Newt. He’s the only one we have that can beat Obama. The MSM wants him to lose for that reason.
There was no marriage. Marianne was married before.
no bray
I think they are all idiot clowns
There is not a sensible honest character among them
I do not believe in the “lesser of two evils” ideology
Where is a good real candidate?
They were separated for 6 years and had only reunited for one when she giggled about ruining his presidential chances. If my marriage was shaky I don't think I'd be making threats.
I have to go to bed. Night!
I have been here a looooooooooooooooooooooong time Miss Christie, not moving along, not voting for Newt might hold my nose and vote for Romney but then again, I think the Mormon church is evil, so I actually can’t vote for him either, can’t vote for a Democrat, so I do not know what to do
Write in or just vote for the strongest conservatives for Congress that you can.
so was newtie prior to marianne
Here we go again. First Herman Cain and the bimbos, now Newt Gingrich and his ex wife. Someone must be paying Gingrich’s ex wife millions (Axlerod, most likely).
And we have an ass-clown who is president.
You mean the commie invasion that occurred in the 60s and 70s
Newt needs to hire Cain’s attorney.
And I quote “Bitches, man”
His first “wife” had a parental relationship with him. Some people have called it rape.
We’re talking Christian marriage, not Muslim marriage or Mormon marriage.
I’m not real sure what her complaint is. She was running with Newt before his divorce with his first wife.
Obviously, she was a rebound relationship, and they fail about 75% of the time.
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