Posted on 05/14/2016 10:05:59 AM PDT by monkapotamus
Newt Gingrich said Friday that "you have to look at it very seriously, of course" regarding the possibility of being presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's running mate.
"I regard Donald as an old friend," Gingrich, the former Georgia representative who was House speaker from 1995 to 1999, told Bill O'Reilly on Fox News...
Newsmax reported Tuesday that Gingrich topped Trump's list of possible vice presidential choices. The developer said that he was seeking a partner while deep experience within Washington who could help him "with legislation, getting things through."
"There are a lot of very good candidates who know a great deal," Gingrich told O'Reilly...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Gingrich brings Amnety, so there’s that.
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By 'you' he means himself. Newt wouldn't bring much of anyone into the voting booth that Donald Trump wouldn't already deliver. Cabinet post at best for Newt.
Jackie had been Newt ‘s geometry teacher.
Contrary to all the perverts on this site, banging your students isn't okay for high school teachers. Not even if they are national merit scholars, and not even if you get them to marry you afterwards. Dumping them when they get a job and a career isn't okay either.
Benlurkin, none of this is a new revelation. It has been discussed repeatedly here at Free Republic.
Newt divorce from Jackie says nothing bad about him. Holding him responsible rather than Jackie for the divorce is morally filthy, whether it is democrats, feminists. .. or you doing it.
You get to decide what kind of person you want to be.
Me, I see women who bang their students in the exact same light as men who want to use ladies rooms in public. I see their defenders the same way too.
It is gallant of you to speak out boldly and with conviction in his defense.
Not sure your attempt to rehabilitate him will be successful, but it is a strong effort on your part.
Well, you can’t rehabilitate the way he cozied up to Nancy Pelosi trying to get in on the global warming scam gravy train, and Newt’s not my guy.
But his first wife was a sexual predator. Fair is fair.
A woman, conservative, Hispanic. Susan Martinez?
Sounds like an affirmative action hire.
Kasich was already ruled out.
Apparently Trump is looking for someone who “he can live with for the next 8 years”. And Kasich is not it.
This is a clue leaked recently by someone from the campaign.
Apparently Newt and Fallin are in the short list which is down to about 6 people.
“I suggest a woman, conservative, Hispanic”
If Trump panders to any demographic group that will undercut his appeal. He might have to pick a white male just to make the point that he doesn’t pander.
Trump, if you haven’t noticed, tends to go against conventional wisdom. If conventional wisdom says he should pick a non-establishment Hispanic woman, he will do just the opposite. And the opposite is probably Newt.
“Not many men would hand carry the divorce papers to their cancer stricken wife in the hospital.”
I don’t know any men that would do such a thing.
Did Noot really do that? That’s mighty callous - unless there’s more to the story.
I think Newt would be better served as Chief of Staff and as a TV surrogate during the election. But I would have no issue with him as Veep.
My wife loves Newt. She is not big into politics but whenever he comes on she says his voice is soothing and explains policy in an easy to understand manner. FWIW.
In defense of Newt, everybody is asking him about it.
And, of course, they can tell he enjoys being asked about it.
And, after all, he is the logical, brilliant choice.
Ludicrous.
Trump has won the primaries and Cruz would cost him at least 10million votes in the general election.
Maybe 20million.
THE criteria for Trump's VP: the right president in eight years to continue this revolt to cut 80% of the unconstitutional $4 trillion central government.
The rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say -
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/12/the-gingrich-divorce-myth/
For almost three decades, Newt Gingrich has been dogged by a story that he served his first wife divorce papers while she lay in a hospital bed battling — or in some versions dying from — cancer. It didn’t happen that way.
In fact, Gingrich, the presidential candidate and former House speaker, and his first wife, Jackie Battley, had already separated before she was hospitalized. He had filed for divorce, and she was seeking alimony and custody of their two children. And while Battley had earlier undergone cancer surgery, this time she was in the hospital recovering from surgery to remove a tumor that — according to one of the couple’s daughters — was benign. Battley isn’t talking to reporters, but she’s still very much alive.
Divorce Story Origins
The story of the hospital visit started with a lengthy and unflattering profile of Gingrich that was published in Mother Jones magazine in 1984. Author David Osborne reported an anecdote from Gingrich’s former press secretary, Lee Howell, who said that Gingrich wanted his wife to sign off on a written list of divorce terms while she was recovering from surgery. Howell said Battley was “still sort of out of it” at the time.
Please see post 44.
I would much prefer Sarah Palin or perhaps Duncan Hunter, but please the smears don’t help anyone.
Only reason anybody is asking about it is because he’s all but shouting from the rooftops about how much he wants it. It’s transparent.
> And, after all, he is the logical, brilliant choice.
If your memory of his last performance in a position of responsibility has been completely erased, perhaps.
Newt might not appreciate Trump’s less presidential moments but he has always seen the potential that is there for learning on the job and would be able to stand up to him publicly without making it seem like that is what he is doing.
Newt is our philosopher-arm-twister deluxe. He would be excellent in some kind of behind-the-scenes advisory role.
As VP, he might be a drag on the ticket although he is one of the best debaters ever. He makes mince meat of his opponent and does it with a smile, complimenting him all the while. Its impressive to watch him in action.
Cushman, May 2011: As for my parents’ divorce, I can remember when they told me.
It was the spring of 1980.
I was 13 years old, and we were about to leave Fairfax, Va., and drive to Carrollton, Ga., for the summer. My parents told my sister and me that they were getting a divorce as our family of four sat around the kitchen table of our ranch home.
Soon afterward, my mom, sister and I got into our light-blue Chevrolet Impala and drove back to Carrollton.
Later that summer, Mom went to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for surgery to remove a tumor. While she was there, Dad took my sister and me to see her.
It is this visit that has turned into the infamous hospital visit about which many untruths have been told. I won’t repeat them. You can look them up online if you are interested in untruths. But here’s what happened:
My mother and father were already in the process of getting a divorce, which she requested.
Dad took my sister and me to the hospital to see our mother.
She had undergone surgery the day before to remove a tumor.
The tumor was benign.
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