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MARIANNE GINGRICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY.... (from 2010)
Washington Monthly ^ | August 10, 2010 | Steve Benen

Posted on 01/18/2012 4:30:04 PM PST by Nachum

MARIANNE GINGRICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY.... Disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) has a special kind of appreciation for marriage. Gingrich, for example, haggled over the terms of his divorce from his first wife while she was in the hospital, recovering from uterine cancer surgery. He had already proposed to his second wife before he was divorced from his first.

In the '90s, this happened again. Gingrich had an affair with a 33-year-old congressional aide -- while spearheading the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton -- and asked his third wife to marry him before he was divorced from his second.

All of this, of course, would be easier to overlook if (a) Gingrich didn't seem entirely serious about running for president in 2012; and (b) Gingrich weren't running around saying things like, "The Democratic Party has been the active instrument of breaking down traditional marriage."

The middle wife -- the one between Newt's first and third marriages -- is Marianne, who once boasted she could end Gingrich's career with a single interview. Marianne has shown remarkable restraint for over a decade, but appears to have given that interview to Esquire.

It's a very lengthy piece, but the anecdote that's likely to generate the most attention comes in her telling of the point in May 1999, soon after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, when Gingrich confessed to one of his affairs -- with a woman who was in Marianne's "apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed."

[Marianne] called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. " 'I can't handle a Jaguar right now.' He said that

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; marianne; newt
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The DemocRATs are bringing her out of mothballs from 2010. Hehehehe.. getting nervous are they?

Game on.

1 posted on 01/18/2012 4:30:16 PM PST by Nachum
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So basically they are rehashing crap she has already said..WOW..desperate much Romney(Yeah I Believe that Romney’s people are behind this) they see him surging in the polls are are scared poopless. Its an EX WIFE, no one divorces someone on good terms, otherwise they wouldnt be getting divorced. What could she say that he did that was so terrible, he eats cats?


2 posted on 01/18/2012 4:32:35 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Nachum
Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband's career with a single interview.

LOL! This is true of every male candidate who ever ran for any office! This bitch is lucky she didn't go to jail like Mary Kay LeTourneau for screwing her student Newton Leroy when he was 15.

3 posted on 01/18/2012 4:32:35 PM PST by montag813
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To: Nachum

She has something to say? Does it have anything to do with saving our country from the grip of socialism?

Does she have anything to say about crony capitalism, or how to restore the principles of our Constitution?


4 posted on 01/18/2012 4:32:52 PM PST by reasonisfaith (Or, more accurately---reason serves faith. See W.L. Craig, and many others.)
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To: Nachum

So basically this is all a rehash of stuff people already knew?


5 posted on 01/18/2012 4:33:13 PM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: Nachum

We already know Newt was a bit of cad when it came to marriage and girlfriends overlapping. Nothing new there.

Now, if she’s prepared to say that he hates puppies or something like that, we may have a problem.

Spare me from ex-spouses with “something to say”.


6 posted on 01/18/2012 4:33:33 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface)
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To: Nachum

She can say she caught Newt in bed with a goat and he will have to PROVE it didn’t happen.

As Newt’s X and as hated by the Left as Newt is ANYTHING bad she says about him will be accepted as gospel.


7 posted on 01/18/2012 4:36:01 PM PST by Happy Rain (The more regulations the better chance of violating them and coming under the heel of the tyrant.)
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To: Nachum

Anyone still blame him for leaving this witch? I wonder how much she’s being paid to smear her ex husband? That’s fine, if she says ANYTHING that can’t be proved, ANYTHING, she and ABC need to be sued until Newt owns them both.


8 posted on 01/18/2012 4:36:13 PM PST by RC one (the majority of republicans agree, anyone but Romney.)
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To: reasonisfaith

I know what cronyism is, and I know what capitalism is, but I’ve no idea what crony capitalism is.

Perhaps you ought to stop using the language of communists before you lose your economic system.


9 posted on 01/18/2012 4:36:59 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: montag813
This bitch is lucky she didn't go to jail like Mary Kay LeTourneau for screwing her student Newton Leroy when he was 15.

Mmmm....wrong wife...I think you mean wife #1 (Jackie), who was quite a bit older than Newt.

10 posted on 01/18/2012 4:37:14 PM PST by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Nachum

I wonder if they’ll bring Larry Sinclair out of mothballs too.


11 posted on 01/18/2012 4:38:00 PM PST by Spokane
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To: Nachum

That’s it? Who gives a rip!


12 posted on 01/18/2012 4:39:26 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: nutmeg

read later


13 posted on 01/18/2012 4:39:34 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: montag813
This bitch is lucky she didn't go to jail like Mary Kay LeTourneau for screwing her student Newton Leroy when he was 15.

Wow - where have I been not to have heard that? Do you have any more red meat about it to enlighten those of us that are in the dark?

14 posted on 01/18/2012 4:39:39 PM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: Nachum
of course, would be easier to overlook if (a) Gingrich didn't seem entirely serious about running for president in 2012

What a crock. Newt already said long ago that he did it because "he loved this nation so much".

If this was 1996 and Newt was running for re-election ABC (I suppose) would be 100% in the can for him.

PS: Clinton was not impeached because of having an affair. It was the lie under oath that got him. george stephanopoulos should know that. ;)

15 posted on 01/18/2012 4:39:46 PM PST by tsowellfan (Video: The Real Romney (running to the left of Ted Kennedy) http://ow.ly/8rknZ)
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To: Happy Rain

According to the ex wife, Newt isn’t fit to be President..yeah but Obama is LOL..WOW so much attention to an ex wife..Newt Gingrich has been in politics for what, 40 years, and all of a sudden NOW this woman decides to come out with her BS..you can bet Romney’s people are 100 percent behind this..Sarah Palin pretty much put the stamp of approval on Newt last night on Hannity, his poll numbers are improving, and now all of a sudden this broad is coming out with these allegations against Newt..please..it was ALL planned by Romney and his goons


16 posted on 01/18/2012 4:41:18 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Anyone still blame him for leaving this witch? I wonder how much she’s being paid to smear her ex husband? That’s fine, if she says ANYTHING that can’t be proved, ANYTHING, she and ABC need to be sued until Newt owns them both.

1. No...I don't blame him for leaving this witch.
2. I imagine someone is paying Marianne handsomely.
3. Agree....I hope - if nothing can be proved - that Newt sticks it right back to this witch & the MSM by swatting them all away/pressing charges, post haste.

17 posted on 01/18/2012 4:41:54 PM PST by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
it was ALL planned by Romney and his goons

No doubt! And George Stephanopoulos!

Romney is a liberal and favored by ABC and the GOP establishment.

18 posted on 01/18/2012 4:43:52 PM PST by tsowellfan (Video: The Real Romney (running to the left of Ted Kennedy) http://ow.ly/8rknZ)
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To: Nachum
Last winter, she was on ABC trashing Newt. Probably same old accusations.

I think this will backfire. She came across before as angry that Newt left her for Callista. (Pay back)

19 posted on 01/18/2012 4:43:58 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: chris37

Perhaps if you read a couple of Governor Palin’s speeches on the subject, you could get educated.


20 posted on 01/18/2012 4:44:15 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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