You have that right. While I know things get complicated sometimes and people are flawed and of course in context that Newt was 16 when he started things with his first love 24 year old Jackie Bately his Geometry teacher. I’ve not did a whole lot of research but the troubling part is his series of alleged affairs with campaign workers and serial divorces. The worst I’ve read makes anything alleged against Herman Cain look tame. Now of course this is old news and it is one thing to revisit the known flaws of a man verses the flaws of a man one was not aware of.
The question is will Newt’s rise to higher office result in new temptations.
Here is an excerpt to place things in clearer context:
“Gingrich resigned from the House in November of 1998, forced out after widespread GOP losses in the 1998 mid-term elections. Following his resignation, Gingrich’s behavior increasingly erratic, and in May of ‘99 he told Marianne he wanted out. During a joint counseling session, Maryanne said Gingrich repeatedly compared her to a Jaguar sports car. “’I can’t handle a Jaguar right now,’” he would say, “’All I want is a Chevrolet.’” Asked whether she was willing to tolerate Gingrich’s ongoing affair with Callista Bisek to preserve their marriage, Marianne refused. “
The problem I’m having is the deeper I look the worse stuff I find. Newt has also shown just as much a promiscuity with ideas as he has shown with women. While I do believe he is generally conservative but he has demonstrated clearly that he will go off on political tangents and down convenient ‘rabbit holes’. I’m just not sure if I want to go down the ‘rabbit hole’ with Newt Gingrich.
Thanks for posting that. It was interesting.
The key to understanding Newt is to understand Narcissism. Not the common, loosely used term that is tossed around so lightly, but the clinical definition/disorder of Narcissism. Newt fits it to a T.
It’s sad if this is the best the GOP can do. Oh well.
If you read that, it’s Maryanne telling that story. She is likely telling it to her advantage. I still say we don’t know the inside of any of his marriages and we should leave that between them and God, and choose the person who can rid us of Obama.
You see, I can’t do anything about his marriages of years ago - but I think he can rid us of Obama and save the country from destruction - maybe God would approve of that.