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To: kristinn
This is the first debate I have watched. Yes Newt can debate however he is going to lose a lot of the womens vote as I believe a lot of them will not vote for a philandering husband. I have been a political junkie for at least 20 years and I had not heard these details about his marriages/affairs before. It will hurt him and he knew it which is why he came out so strongly. I am still voting for Santorum if he is on the ballot in Michigan. They will demonize Gingrich and call him the quintessential mean-spirited Republican. The media will always go after the skeletons.

Wouldn't it be funny if the dems are just waiting for our candidate to be decided upon and then they make a switch to Hillary.

1,193 posted on 01/19/2012 7:41:36 PM PST by MomwithHope (Wake up America we are at war with militant Islam and progressives - 2 fronts.)
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To: MomwithHope

I agree... Hillary just might be waiting in the wings.


1,204 posted on 01/19/2012 7:45:34 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: MomwithHope
I have been a political junkie for at least 20 years and I had not heard these details about his marriages/affairs before.

Skip the late 90's?

It was as big a scandal in the media as Clinton's impeachment. Funny thing is though, most of it has been proven to be lies.

1,205 posted on 01/19/2012 7:45:34 PM PST by Abby4116
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To: MomwithHope

Yes Newt can debate however he is going to lose a lot of the womens vote as I believe a lot of them will not vote for a philandering husband.”

Three words;. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON!


1,212 posted on 01/19/2012 7:48:42 PM PST by Grunthor (I am a conservative, neither half of the one party represents my views.)
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To: MomwithHope
I have been a political junkie for at least 20 years and I had not heard these details about his marriages/affairs before.

Not buying it one bit. You can't have been a political junkie since at least 1992 and missed all of this.
1,254 posted on 01/19/2012 8:01:42 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: MomwithHope

Mr Newt was my congressman at the time of the Clinton impeachment. I was very angry with him because I had worked to get him elected, had met him a few times and really liked and trusted him to do the right thing.
Now that Perry has bowed out, I will support Newt. All his baggage is out there. His ex did not say anything new today that she had not said before.


1,268 posted on 01/19/2012 8:05:12 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: MomwithHope
"Yes Newt can debate however he is going to lose a lot of the womens vote"

It's that voting block that has gotten us into the situation we are currently in. Personally, I would not recommend pandering to them. JMHO
1,309 posted on 01/19/2012 8:22:28 PM PST by JoSixChip (Top 10% of wage earners pay 70% of total income taxes collected. Bottom 50% pay less then 3%, fair?)
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To: MomwithHope

A lot of people don’t know facts about Newt Gingrich.

As a small child Newt witnessed his father beating and abusing Newt’s mother. She divorced him, remarried, and Newt was adopted by his step dad. Later he was sexually molested by a high school teacher. Yeah, the first wife he married because she got pregnant and he felt obligated to do the right thing.

Later he committed adultery with Mairanne Ginther, who became his second wife. He realized he had made a mistake in this marriage, and after two trial seperations sought a divorce.

Newt Gingrich had an epiphany. He had to, or he would have self-destructed.

This man was carrying a troubled emotional burden while serving in Congress but he sought counseling, joined AA and eventually turned his life around after a religious conversion.

Christians are not better than other people. They forgive others, ask forgiveness for themselves, and try to lead a better life by not sinning further. I’m not disgusted with Newt Gingrich, who I believe has honestly changed his life.

It is difficult to feel sorry for Marianne Ginther. She gave the bitter interview originally in 1995. She is only coming forward now to destroy Newt Gingrich by smearing him and his wife to the detriment of our country’s future.

People need to look at this situation clearly and resist knee-jerk reactions.

The Santorums aren’t free from smears either. Karen Santorum became the mistress of an abortion doctor at age 22. Google news Karen Santorum.

This type of yellow journalism, the practice of personal destruction, sickens me. It is out there and folks must realize it is made public knowledge towards one purpose only - to destroy likely candidates in the eyes of people like yourself.


1,425 posted on 01/19/2012 10:55:12 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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