Posted on 12/02/2011 7:05:08 PM PST by fightinJAG
Republican Newt Gingrich credited his wife and blind persistence for pulling his campaign back from the brink of disaster in the 2012 race. But an expert suggests circumstance really controls his newfound fame.
Gingrich praised his third wife Callista, whom he said pieced his campaign back together after key staffers quit and media allegations crashed it, and his own persistence for his new lead in Politico’s eBook The Right Fights Back, released Wednesday.
Callista, he said, dug into the campaign, becoming “a very good surrogate.” Gingrich said he too dug deeper into the GOP presidential nominee race, refusing to acknowledge that the campaign was failing.
“I was the only guy in the room who didn’t know I was dead,” he said in the book.
News polls show Gingrich surging ahead of October front-runner Herman Cain and experienced contender Mitt Romney. The former speaker leads Romney by as much as 4 percent in CNN/ Opinion Research and Quinnipiac polls – a far cry from his standing in July when he barely garnered 5 percent of support in the polls.
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N.C. State University Political Science Professor Andrew Taylor argues that all Gingrich may have really done was successfully benefited from the political mishaps of others.
“I think a great deal of what has helped was sort of the rise and falls and sort of failings of some his competitors,” he told The Christian Post.
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Gingrich said he ignored advisers who suggested his younger third wife, whom he met during an extramarital affair, should not be so close to the campaign. Now he said she has become as integral to him as Nancy Reagan was to Ronald Reagan.
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Gross
Heard Callista speak the other day on the radio. She’s very, very well spoken and pushes for conservative causes right along with Newt. I like what I hear so far from her.
He left out “and a sprinkle of Monica Lewinsky.”
He left out “and a sprinkle of Monica Lewinsky.”
It just shows how far the GOP has come. There was a time we might not have warmed up to a homewrecker who slept w a married man. Now all she has to do is ‘speak conservative’ and she’s home free.
And the Dems dare to call us straight-laced.
“I think a great deal of what has helped was sort of the rise and falls and sort of failings of some his competitors,”
Yep Newt, you are better than others because of their failings. That’s the ticket! Just what the USA needs.
Interesting that she kept her ties to Capitol Hill so long. She certainly didn't need the money.
Gingrich Credits Wife for Sudden Rise
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Clinton had Monica and a cigar
Dole had Viagra
Newt’s got a former Congressional Staffer while he was married on the Congressional Parking Lot with her head in his crotch.
For some reason, I just don’t see that as First Lady material.
I don't think she could look any more plastic if she tried.
Sorry for the bold.
Bad bold, bad.
Remember when Fred Barnes wrote that piece saying all the buzz was that it was Callista who had RUINED Newt’s campaign and made all his staff so crazy they had to quit in the first place?
Wonder how those guys feel hearing that now Newt is claiming CallistaBling swooped in and saved the day, doing what they did not and never could do.
Good grief. The only reason Newt got a snowball’s chance in hell is because the Axelrod-MO attacks on Cain took the wind out of his sails.
I banged this while married to my second wife who I banged while married to my first wife. Of course the Clintons blackmailed me with my FBI file about all of this so I betrayed the Republican Revolution.
God I suck as a real man!
Great. Just what America needs. The First Slut. Wonderful. Can America get any lower with morals and principles. Obviously not even with so called conservatives.
Somebody needs to confiscate all her blue eyeshadow
“homewrecker”
What? Did she drag him from the house against his will? She wasn’t married - he was. But, this is her fault? Guess if she hadn’t been there, he would have been loyal? She is not very big - would think he could have fought her off.
Thanks for the correction. My bad. She is not a home-wrecker.
She is a slut.
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