Posted on 12/12/2011 11:33:17 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Newt takes no-adultery pledge
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 12/12/11 1:09 PM EST
When the Iowa social conservative group The Family Leader unveiled a sweeping pledge on marriage and abortion over the summer, Newt Gingrich was one of the candidates who passed on signing it.
Now, Gingrich has answered the pledge with a lengthy written response, vowing to support a federal marriage amendment, reinstate the Mexico City policy -- and, per the stipulations of The Family Leader pledge, to be faithful to his wife:
I also pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others.
Gingrich's full response after the jump ...
To Bob Vander Plaats and the Executive Board of The FAMiLY LEADER:
I appreciate the opportunity to affirm my strong support of the mission of the FAMiLY LEADER by solemnly vowing to defend and strengthen the family through the following actions I would take as President of the United States.
Defending Marriage. As President, I will vigorously enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, which was enacted under my leadership as Speaker of the House, and ensure compliance with its provisions, especially in the military. I will also aggressively defend the constitutionality of DOMA in federal and state courts. I will support sending a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification. I will also oppose any judicial, bureaucratic, or legislative effort to define marriage in any manner other than as between one man and one woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
That’s a pledge which should be easy for any man to stick to.
So your saying Newt NEVER visited his RECOVERING wife in the Hospital.
No, that wasn’t what I meant...but that was one scary picture!!!
Amen. I’d prefer he take a “No NWO or Socialism” pledge.
This "pledge" is oh-so-tacky and even faintly sicko. Newt should have left it alone....though I understand his reasoning...you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
In fact, the entire GOP primary process is beginning to make me ill. I'm tuning out the debates, the pundits, the sound bites and the bickering personal jabs.....preferring to read the news and analysis from posters I trust right here on FR.
By the time a GOP candidate survives as THE primary winner, that person will have been battered and bruised so much by fellow candidates and by purists and/or one-issue pressure groups that general-election foe Obama will look like Elsie Dinsmore by comparison.
(Elsie Dinsmore.... a "goody two-shoes" young heroine in a late 1800's series of children's books).
Leni
God forgives. I don’t.
Acording to Newt, he is the one who wanted and asked for the divorce:
Brian Begley
: 11/29/11 14:50
That story wasn’t just made up. His ex-wife told it to a magazine and a newspaper separately (Mother Jones and the Washington Post). If I had to guess whether the wife got the story right 6 years later, or the next week or the daughter got it right 30 years later, I’d probably go with the wife.
Her quote to the Post:
“He can say that we had been talking about [a divorce] for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise,” says Jackie Gingrich, in a telephone interview from Carrollton. “He’s a great wordsmith … He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery … To say I gave up a lot for the marriage is the understatement of the year.”
Then there’s this quote from Gingrich:
Asked if, in fact, he handled the divorce as insensitively as portrayed, Gingrich responded: “All I can say is when you’ve been talking about divorce for 11 years and you’ve gone to a marriage counselor, and the other person doesn’t want the divorce, I’m not sure there is any sensitive way to handle it.”
That doesn’t sound like she requested the divorce.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/284360/cancer-hospital-story-mona-charen?page=1
Don’t put words in my mouth.
Take a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Marriages_and_children
In 1984, Battley told the Washington Post that the divorce was a “complete surprise” to her. According to Battley, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce.[136] Gingrich has disputed that account.[102] In 2011 their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay, and that Gingrich’s visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple’s children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce.[137] According to L.H. Carter, his campaign treasurer, Gingrich said of Battley: “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.”[138][139] Gingrich has denied saying it. His supporters dismiss Carter as a disgruntled former aide who was miffed at not being asked to accompany Gingrich to Washington.[140]
FReepers need to be just a bit skeptical. I’m not condoning adultery, but the full truth is often a casualty of divorce.
From the daughter own mouth,
My Father, Newt Gingrich (Jackie Cushman discusses her mother, the divorce, and her father)
National Review | 12/13/2011 | Robert Costa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2819908/posts
She states that the media took everything out of context.
I am sure you are looking for the Truth as I am.
Can’t trust the media..
Frankly I don’t care about his divorce. The big LIE was that she was dying. What makes the story have legs is that Newt is perfectly capable of that type of behavior. All divorces are messy if there was ever Love involved. Newt has much more serious problems than just this soap opera.
What I sent you were actual quotes, not just from Jackie but also from Newt. Did you even read my post? Honestly, this has gone beyond rational.
This conservative remembers Newt’s earlier indiscretions. And considering the overall weakness of the republican field in such a critical election, I’m willing to listen to Newt on the subject.
Who here is without sin? Who should cast the first stone or be denied another chance?
I will listen to how he handles what is undoubtedly going to be a media onslaught coming his way. And I won’t discount him before he has a chance to talk to voters about this.
LOL
I have read and read, and yeah, it is beyond...
did you READ MINE???
SHE SAID the media LIED took things out of context...
Said she and her sister are helping her Dad WITH HER MOTHER’S Blessing..
sheesh...
LOL
I have read and read, and yeah, it is beyond...
did you READ MINE???
SHE SAID the media LIED took things out of context...
Said she and her sister are helping her Dad WITH HER MOTHER’S Blessing..
sheesh...
It appears the only people interested in continuing to trash Newt about it are some freepers..
The FAMILY, involved are OVER IT!
I’ve read the daughter’s words a hundred times. It’s all Newt’s supporters post. Everyone who posts it for the thousandth or two-thousandth time thinks, evidently, that nobody else has ever seen it. The quote I sent you was from Newt directly. It was cited in The Corner, which is not habitated by wild eyed moonbats. If you’re going to dismiss Newt’s direct quotes, then insanity is all you have left. Enjoy it.
Trust is the crux of it all isn’t it? All human relationships are based on trust. Do you know the meaning of Devil? One who severs or destroys relationships.
A commentary...
I’m getting some heat for mentioning Newt’s hospital visit to his ailing first wife, divorce papers in tow. A number of less than careful readers have accused me recycling a false story that Newt presented those papers to a wife who was dying of cancer. I didn’t say that.
This is from the site YOU posted...
the corner...
Are you purposefully missing the point? Here is what I posted:
< < [Jackie’s] quote to the Post:
“He can say that we had been talking about [a divorce] for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise,” says Jackie Gingrich, in a telephone interview from Carrollton. “He’s a great wordsmith … He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery … To say I gave up a lot for the marriage is the understatement of the year.”
Then there’s this quote from Gingrich:
Asked if, in fact, he handled the divorce as insensitively as portrayed, Gingrich responded: “All I can say is when you’ve been talking about divorce for 11 years and you’ve gone to a marriage counselor, and the other person doesn’t want the divorce, I’m not sure there is any sensitive way to handle it.”
That doesn’t sound like she requested the divorce. > >
Newt not only admits he was the one who wanted the divorce, but he says he had no choice but to be insensitive about it. Have you drank so much Kool Aid you can no longer grasp simple English???
OH yes
The bible says “Greater is HE (Christ) who is in you then he (the devil) that is of the world”
Newt’s life changed when he got close to the Lord.
That is what happens when Jesus Christ takes you in.
This is what the Daughter says about her Dad, not me.
Christ won, the Devil lost.
Thank you Jesus!
LOL
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