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What Do Women Think of the Marianne Gingrich Story?

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RUSH: Oh, obviously. Hell, yeah, obviously. It could become an issue with women voters. Newt's out there, by the way, made news last night, he denied this. He denied the open marriage stuff. And guess what? There is a woman out there.

Her name is Grandy, Fred Grandy's wife, I'm assuming. And she is saying that Marianne Gingrich is unstable and that all the congressional wives thought that from the get-go, that she was a camera hog, that she was loud and outrageous, egotistical, all these things. And that she was not popular with all the people.

(interruption) What, what, what, what, what, what? Well, I don't know what it sounds like, I'm just telling you what she said.

Let me find the exact story here. "Newt Ally Calls Ex-Wife Unstable, Unhinged -- Allies of embattled GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich are coming to his defense. ... What's more is that they are slapping at ABC, which is set to run an interview," last night. "One former associate of Marianne Gingrich, former congressional wife Catherine Mann-Grandy, told Whispers that the speaker's second wife was often rude, loud and unreasonable, and she doubted her story about the open marriage.

Citing a code among congressional wives, Mann-Grandy said, 'We pretty much kept our lips closed, but Marianne was emotionally unstable and I particularly felt that she was obstreperous and rude.'"

That is in the US News & World Report, Washington Whispers. I'm assuming it's Fred Grandy's wife. Wild guess, but I think I'm pretty good.

VOTE SMART, SOUTH CAROLINIANS!

1 posted on 01/21/2012 12:15:11 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

She’s not actually sitting on anything. This is old news isn’t it?


2 posted on 01/21/2012 12:18:50 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: Jim Robinson; onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom; Liz; rodguy911; Fred Nerks; ...

.. Ping!

See

Newt Ally Calls Ex-Wife Unstable, Unhinged
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835302/posts


3 posted on 01/21/2012 12:18:50 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE
...the base will stay at home if Mitt is the nominee.

Yep, and overcoming the positive that Newt has generated on his own will be tough to achieve.

Suck on THAT you Newt vipers!

Oh and after seeing that picture........

GUILTY!!!!!!!

4 posted on 01/21/2012 12:29:42 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: STARWISE
Hey can you name another Congress leader who did more Conservative stuff than Newt?
7 posted on 01/21/2012 12:33:43 PM PST by factmart
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To: STARWISE

Well the whole thing bombed, and made ABC look foolish.

Now she can collect her check and go disappear back into the hole they found her in.


10 posted on 01/21/2012 12:46:02 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: STARWISE
the Drudge Report says ABC News is sitting on an interview with Newt's second wife, Marianne, and is debating the ethics of releasing it before the important primary

And ABC decided that since it didn't have any ethics, it was OK to run with it.

(after 0bama approved it, no doubt)

11 posted on 01/21/2012 12:50:21 PM PST by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: STARWISE
Both sides of the media are dirty politics and have been from the beginning -- it's only when the Left got control of that newfangled TV -- and silenced radio -- that the Left have tried to enforce moral superiority. All that changed and the Left cannot "handle the truth."

The MSM are a major part of.. well what else Obama's Morality Police?

I still think of the MSM as Obama's servile, complaisant, undistinguished media (SCUM).

16 posted on 01/21/2012 1:01:12 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: STARWISE; TitansAFC; rockinqsranch; airborne; Sacajaweau
A poster at FreeRepublic found this from a 1995 PBS show, "The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich." Very interesting comments from Marianne Gingrich, when they were married at the time.

TitansAFC's THREAD: The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich (1995: Marianne Promised To "Undermine Everything" For Newt)

From the 1995 interview:

........But his greatest presidential stumbling block may be right under his nose. At home, Newt's second wife, Marianne Ginther Gingrich, tells me she doesn't see herself in the First Lady's job. "Watching Hillary has just been a horrible experience," commiserates Marianne. "Hillary sticking her neck out is not working."

What happens if Newt runs?, I ask.

"He can't do it without me," she replies. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy" --she giggles at her naughtiness. "I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything...I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be."

Why not?

"Right now, the presidency is not a single person. It's not so much what he'd be doing. It's what I'd be doing.".........
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Since ABC made there squalid decision to run the interview after the debate and before the primary, it seems to me that the NEW news is TitansAFC's news: Marianne has been on this jag since 1995.

17 posted on 01/21/2012 1:04:26 PM PST by thouworm (.)
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To: STARWISE

Here’s something to think about:

If you were ABC news and had this “destructive” interview, wouldn’t you consider whether it would be more effective in hurting Newt now, in the primary, or later in the general election (if he won the nomination)?

Since they opted to run it now, doesn’t this say something about how much of a threat they deem Newt to be?

In the end, they probably did Newt a favor by getting the Unhinged Marianne stuff out now, denying Obama the opportunity to pull it out of the hat later. If Obama tries re-hashing this old old story it will just look petty and mean now.


18 posted on 01/21/2012 1:17:59 PM PST by bigbob
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To: STARWISE
The Media is Team Obama. So when you watch ABC or CNN just think this is Team Obama. They should all have little buttons on their lapels that say Team Obama.

One thing for sure Journalist THEY ARE NOT. They are nothing more than Political Hacks at best.

19 posted on 01/21/2012 1:37:39 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: STARWISE
gingrichmarianne, Marianne Gingrich
20 posted on 01/21/2012 2:38:20 PM PST by FrankR (When you vote based on race...race is all you get.)
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