Posted on 01/18/2012 9:15:51 PM PST by Red Steel
The Gingrich campaign launched a preemptive strike as news spread that ABC plans to broadcast a potentially damaging interview with Newt Gingrichs second ex-wife on Thursday just two days before Saturdays crucial South Carolina primary.
Gingrichs daughters (from his first marriage) Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman came to their fathers defense in a letter released by his presidential campaign.
The failure of a marriage is a terrible and emotional experience for everyone involved. Anyone who has had that experience understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events, the daughters said in the letter addressed to ABC News Leadership.
We will not say anything negative about our fathers ex-wife. He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves, the letter said.
The daughters also said the former House Speaker intends to stay on message, suggesting one thing he will not be talking about in South Carolina is the ABC interview.
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“Presidenting aint debating.”
In today’s media-centric society, if you ain’t no good at debating, you won’t be Presidenting...
There are.
“In todays media-centric society, if you aint no good at debating, you wont be Presidenting...”
And if you are overweight and out of shape you will never be president. That’s why Christie never had a chance.
I have no desire to listen to anymore out of that vile womans mouth. I have heard enough to determine that she is a bitter jealous ex., that now is thinking "I could have been FLOTUS". In my opinion, that is the meat of her bitterness.
Well marianna, woulda, coulda, shoulda has passed and you must have been a bitter, pushy, vile woman back then for Newt to leave you.
Newt would never say these things, but we can. Women are petty and vicious creatures. She sounds like many we all have known in the workplace.
I have no desire to listen to anymore out of that vile womans mouth. I have heard enough to determine that she is a bitter jealous ex., that now is thinking "I could have been FLOTUS". In my opinion, that is the meat of her bitterness.
Well marianna, woulda, coulda, shoulda has passed and you must have been a bitter, pushy, vile woman back then for Newt to leave you.
Newt would never say these things, but we can. Women are petty and vicious creatures. She sounds like many we all have known in the workplace.
Which one of ANY of these guys can I count on when the mud goes flying?
Somebody is going to begin flingin mud soon...
I’m a mad-dinner-jacket! YOU are NOT talking to me! I mess your choke point!
It is my firm and concrete belief that Newt would actually say things of that caliber.
What’s amazing is your statement about what you’d NEVER do.
ALL things being equal, mebbe the Mitt Roninator may be more your caliber, eh?
Except for ONE thing: we ALL are going to gunn for your ass every and any time we see it.
Now stick that bulbous thing out there and we, I meann ALL OF US (we) are going to shoot at it simuiltaneously and with everything and ANYTHING that “we” have at our dispossal...
There is only ONE party : Call them the Democans or Republicrats . Two card monte , Corrupt to the hilt . Where’s Pat Paulsen when you nned him ?
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Wish for a pony. You’d have a better chance.
We’re talking about Newt here. This is his one last shot and he knows it. And I have to admit that this response, as fast and as well-put as it was, is going to have a major impact. The kid’s endorsement means a lot.
Santorum would definitely be better as a Conservative candidate, but I just don’t see him as a fighter. He’s not getting his numbers up, he’s not showing any fire. I wish he was.
He better soon.
At least until the new batch goes corrupt, lazy, wobbly and liberal on us.
I recently saw an old video of Newt emphasizing it was solely about perjury as well.
And Newt revolted on Bush, Sr. when Bush Sr. hurt the Republican party’s good name and doomed his presidency by breaking his “no new taxes” pledge. This wasn’t just a polite “no thanks” either, it was a plan to embarrass Bush Sr. publically over it. It just shows that Newt will fight anyone no matter how powerful they are to stick up for his principles. Very few on the political scene ever show that kind of courage as often as Newt has. Of course Reagan was one of the others.
Newts first wife was a sexual predator who married her young prey and then left him. Later she slimed him in the press.
If people want to slam Newt, they are going to have to explain why they personally support high school teachers who are bed hopping their students.
I am not a Newt guy. My picks have been whoever is strongest between Cain, Bachmann, and Santorum.
Nonetheless, pedophiles are not okay and if you go after Newt's first marriage or attempt to gloss over the fact that later behaviors stemmed from that then you need to explain your support of pedophiles.
Because you can't do one without the other.
Your timeline is incomplete.
Thats an incomplete timeline.
You fail to look at when Newt met Jackie Battley.
He has told his children it was his senior year, but his classmates and transcript say something else entirely. Geometry is a freshman or sophomore course, not a senior course. And Newt.was a national merit scholar, not some math challenged dufus.
Contrary to the libertarian hedonist lobby out to banish age of consent laws, this is damaging and has long term consequences. Even when the teacher is a woman and the student is a boy.
The Newt is a toad. He has as much personal integrity as Bill Clinton and as consistent political philosophy as Arianna Huffington. He is the poster child for why not to be a Republican.
A comparison of the 1999 Bain portfolio obtained by the Los Angeles Times to the information in the Subsidy Tracker database my colleagues and I at Good Jobs First created (as well as other sources), yields examples such as the following:
Steel Dynamics Inc. In 1994 this company, among whose financial backers at the time was Bain, got a $77 million subsidy packageincluding grants, property tax abatements, tax credits and reimbursement for training costsfor its steel mill in DeKalb County, Indiana (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, June 23, 1994).
GS Industries. In 1996 American Iron Reduction LLC, a joint venture of GS Industries (which had been taken private by Bain in 1993) and Birmingham Steel, sought some $20 million in tax breaks in connection with its plan to build a plant in Louisianas St. James Parish (Baton Rouge Advocate, April 6, 1996). As the United Steelworkers union noted recently, GS Industries later applied for a federal loan guarantee, but before the deal could be implemented the company went bankrupt.
Sealy. A year after the 1997 buyout of this leading mattress company by Bain and other private equity firms, Sealy received $600,000 from state and local authorities in North Carolina to move its corporate offices, a research center and a manufacturing plant from Ohio (Greensboro News & Record, March 31, 1998). In 2004 Bain and its partners sold Sealy to another private equity group.
GT Bicycles. In 1997 GT, then owned by Bain and other investors, decided to move its manufacturing operations to an enterprise zone in Santa Ana, California. Being in the zone gave the company, which was later purchased by Schwinn, special tax credits relating to hiring and the purchase of equipment (Orange County Register, July 9, 1999).
You can read much about it on Glenn Becks site.
I think the interview will be similar to the one in Esquire in 2010. It doesn’t make look Newt look very good. Would be unfair to run it now. This will hurt him big in Florida, but if he hangs in there it won’t.
Unless of course there’s a revelation that he’s gay.
One thing for sure...the MSM will vette the hell out of our candidate.
Makes me wonder too, if she was paidfor the interview.
Was listining to Boortz the other day and he had a guest on that worked for Newt back during this period. He was reluctant to talk about it but did make mention of her having a boyfriend, I wonder if he’ll talk now.
That’s a keeper. Thank you.
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