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The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich (1995: Marianne Promised To "Undermine Everything" For Newt)
PBS.org ^ | September, 1995 | Gail Sheehy

Posted on 01/18/2012 5:23:38 PM PST by TitansAFC

........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.".........

(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackmail; chevy; confession; cougar; firstlady; gingrich; jaguar; mariannegingrich; naughtymarianne; newt; newtgingrich; notfirstlady; romney; undermine; voteobamabeforemitt
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To: BCrago66
If ABC airs this interview tomorrow (as a tweet from a Politico reporter indicates) Republican voters in South Carolina will direct their ire, not at Marianne Gingrich, but at the left-wing MSM, for its repeated attempts to fix the election for Romney.

It would contribute to a Gingrich victory in South Carolina.


Kinda what my thinking is as well. People are sick of this dirty politicking.
21 posted on 01/18/2012 5:41:59 PM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: kempo

Actually, Ia m on good terms with the ex....I even gave a great reference to the current employer


22 posted on 01/18/2012 5:42:38 PM PST by Nifster
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To: OrangeHoof
Aren’t wives wonderful?

That woman doesn't sound like much of a wife... sounds like a sorry excuse for a person...

23 posted on 01/18/2012 5:43:05 PM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: Raebie

Don’t be surpised if there’s a 3rd debate before saturday with Newt’s first and third wife and kids vs wife #2

I’m going to get some pop corn.

I wish ABC news could find Obama’s ex Phil for such an interview.

(If Obama were a conservative republican the whole country would know exactly who Phil Boener is back in october 2008)


24 posted on 01/18/2012 5:43:11 PM PST by tsowellfan (Video: The Real Romney (running to the left of Ted Kennedy) http://ow.ly/8rknZ)
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To: TitansAFC
Her comments obviously come from hysteria and stupidity to the extent that they're funny.

How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.


25 posted on 01/18/2012 5:43:51 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: fightinJAG
How in the world is this a dirty trick?

Marianne Gingrich's 1995 Esquire interview has been discussed here on FR at length, and for months now. This is no surprise.

She happens to be running her mouth over at ABC in a new interview threatening to take her x out.

DRUDGE SIRENS: Network holds Bombshell Campaign Interview....developing

26 posted on 01/18/2012 5:44:17 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Raebie

This is all about twisted Drudge aligning with that homosexual activist group “GOProud” and trying to take down Newt. These scum will do anything in a desperate attempt to preserve their homosexual contacts and access within Romney’s campaign staff. Drudge has lost all self respect stooping this low.


27 posted on 01/18/2012 5:46:28 PM PST by DesertRenegade
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To: Red Steel

Still, how is this a dirty trick?


28 posted on 01/18/2012 5:46:32 PM PST by Ingtar (If the GOP wants my vote, they should start fielding candidate for whom I can vote - Jemian)
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To: Ingtar

I didn’t say it was a dirty trick. But it shows that this women doesn’t have any real credibility based on her past interview.


29 posted on 01/18/2012 5:48:30 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert; sheikdetailfeather

You got THAT right! bttt


30 posted on 01/18/2012 5:48:44 PM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: TitansAFC

The guy, god bless him, Speaker Gingrich, is TOXIC from his past personal life and multiple problematic Capitol Hill relationships [repentant now in the present or not, unfortunately]. No matter how many years pass, believe me, a scorned woman will hold the grudge and SCREW UP a man BIG TIME at the worst possible time. Take it to the bank. I only hope the benefactor of this is NOT MITT, but rather Santorum or Perry, the other conservatives in the race. It remains to be seen where the chips truly do fall on this one. They screwed Cain at the most critical time, looks like Gingrich’s turn in the barrel as well.


31 posted on 01/18/2012 5:51:32 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (The top leading CONSERVATIVE as of today in terms of 2012 GOP convention delegates, is RICK SANTORUM)
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To: freekitty

THAT is the point. She hasn’t changed...


32 posted on 01/18/2012 5:52:19 PM PST by ConfidentConservative (If my people shall humble themselves and pray,I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.)
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To: tsowellfan
Phil (right), with fern (left)


33 posted on 01/18/2012 5:53:34 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Red Steel

Furthermore, this is still a non-story.


34 posted on 01/18/2012 5:53:34 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: wardaddy

You won’t be sitting it out alone.

If Romney gets the nomination, I am done.

However, Newt is tough.


35 posted on 01/18/2012 5:54:05 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~..... GO NEWT GO.....!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I hope that Gingrich can stop Romney in South Carolina before this has any impact. Hopefully, Rick Santorum will start getting some major donations soon.


36 posted on 01/18/2012 5:54:27 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (A chameleon belongs in a pet store, not the White House)
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To: fightinJAG

“How in the world is this a dirty trick?
Marianne Gingrich’s 1995 Esquire interview has been discussed here on FR at length, and for months now...”

I think the “dirty trick” we’re discussing here is not the 1995 interview, but the upcoming ABC interview, for which they are debating whether or not to release before the SC primary.

The timing of this, combined with Romney and his Super-Pac’s scorched earth negative ads in Gingrich in SC look pretty suspicious. Mitt has proven already with his ultra-negative ads in Iowa that he’ll stoop to any level to win this nomination.

He’ll call Gingrich another Al Gore or whatever while having bought into the whole global warming nonsense himself, then he’ll claim with a straight face that he’s “always been pro-life” and been “as consistent as any human being could ever be” while trying to label others flip-floppers. He’ll claim Gingrich and Perry are “career politicians” when he’s been running for office since 1994 and has wanted to be POTUS probably since his old man lost out back in the 70s.

These last couple days have reminded me of what an absolute scumbag Mitt Romney is. There is no way I will lift a finger to help that guy get elected, and I’m 50/50 right now on whether or not I can even pull the lever for him.


37 posted on 01/18/2012 5:55:12 PM PST by lquist1
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To: TitansAFC

I guess there’s a reason he dumped her.


38 posted on 01/18/2012 5:58:43 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> - - -)
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To: wardaddy

Is there a similar site to Drudge? Because I have just about had it with drudge and his pimping for Romney.


39 posted on 01/18/2012 5:58:49 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Go Newt!)
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To: Red Steel
She’s likely an evil Democrat.

It's not about Newt, it's not about the country, IT'S ALL ABOUT HER.

40 posted on 01/18/2012 6:01:09 PM PST by D Rider
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