Posted on 01/18/2012 4:30:04 PM PST by Nachum
MARIANNE GINGRICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY.... Disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) has a special kind of appreciation for marriage. Gingrich, for example, haggled over the terms of his divorce from his first wife while she was in the hospital, recovering from uterine cancer surgery. He had already proposed to his second wife before he was divorced from his first.
In the '90s, this happened again. Gingrich had an affair with a 33-year-old congressional aide -- while spearheading the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton -- and asked his third wife to marry him before he was divorced from his second.
All of this, of course, would be easier to overlook if (a) Gingrich didn't seem entirely serious about running for president in 2012; and (b) Gingrich weren't running around saying things like, "The Democratic Party has been the active instrument of breaking down traditional marriage."
The middle wife -- the one between Newt's first and third marriages -- is Marianne, who once boasted she could end Gingrich's career with a single interview. Marianne has shown remarkable restraint for over a decade, but appears to have given that interview to Esquire.
It's a very lengthy piece, but the anecdote that's likely to generate the most attention comes in her telling of the point in May 1999, soon after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, when Gingrich confessed to one of his affairs -- with a woman who was in Marianne's "apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed."
[Marianne] called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. " 'I can't handle a Jaguar right now.' He said that
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Exactly...We’re not electing a minister or nominating him for sainthood.
That’s it!
I am not tempted to vote for Gingrich. His personal life suggests someone who is undisciplined and has few morals. I remember that when he was Speaker he was one of the most unpopular politicians in America. He was forced out of the House speakership and resigned his seat.
Just because he can throw red meat to Republicans in a debate does not mean that he has the ability to appeal to independents and disaffected Democrats. In fact, I imagine independents will be turned off by a hyper-partisan Republican just as they are turned off now by the leftist wingnut in the White House. Nor is there any indication that Gingrich has the managerial ability to run the Executive Branch. His colleagues in Congress said his management style when he was Speaker was chaotic. Everything was always in crisis mode. Gingrich has too much baggage and lacks the temperament to win the election orto govern.
Let’s offer the American people a fresh face—an appealing candidate who has years of experience in government, a record of accomplishment, the proven ability to win Democrat votes in an important swing state, and a personal life that is above reproach—Rick Santorum.
I applaud your support of a candidate, but if you think a few social conservatives won’t get turned off by the media witch hunt against Gingrich you are sadly mistaken.
Unfortunately, for my kids sake, it only takes a few percentage points of people to feel that way and the map is changed. It’s the same reason that Mittens could lose the race over his religion if we even assumed that conservatives (not going to happen) voted for him.
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Thank you for the compliment, It is my desire to bring out the truth and I have only posted negative on Mitt Romney.
I have posted, several times, the attitude of Newt Gingrich’s Daughters opinion of their Dad. To me, that is the most important information.
THEY care about their Dad, THEY support him. THEY say he has been supportive of them. AND now they are stomping for him believing he would make a good President.
I am not tempted to vote for Gingrich. His personal life suggests someone who is undisciplined and has few morals. I remember that when he was Speaker he was one of the most unpopular politicians in America. He was forced out of the House speakership and resigned his seat.
Just because he can throw red meat to Republicans in a debate does not mean that he has the ability to appeal to independents and disaffected Democrats. In fact, I imagine independents will be turned off by a hyper-partisan Republican just as they are turned off now by the leftist wingnut in the White House. Nor is there any indication that Gingrich has the managerial ability to run the Executive Branch. His colleagues in Congress said his management style when he was Speaker was chaotic. Everything was always in crisis mode. Gingrich has too much baggage and lacks the temperament to win the election or to govern.
Let’s offer the American people a fresh face—an appealing candidate who has years of experience in government, a record of accomplishment, the proven ability to win Democrat votes in an important swing state, and a personal life that is above reproach—Rick Santorum.
He’s already done that!
Have you read anything about Wife #2? She helped Newt write his first books and get them published. She worked behind the scenes on his election to the House. Newt told her she was dowdy and did not dress right or project the kind of wife man of his stature needed in the DC political circles. He dumped her for a staffer 20 years his junior. Now wife #3 looks like a Barbie doll with not a bleached blonde hair ever out of place, dresses in $3,000 suits, Tiffany jewelry. Now that is what is going to hurt Newt-and his opponents will use it to show what Newt’s family values really look like.
Very good point.
And who is falling like a rock since he won Iowa
Find out a few more details. The first wife was his highschool teacher, who essentially molested an overweight, insecure military brat. She was in her 30s and Gingrich, who was a teenager at the time, insisted on marrying her when she got pregnant. His father, who was in the military, was opposed to it and Newt fought to “do the right thing” and marry her.
IIRC, they had two children together, and then she divorced him. She had cancer, but she was not on her deathbed, she was the one who wanted the divorce, and even she corrected the story later.
As for this ex-wife, who was clearly a rebound as Gingrich’s marriage broke up, she came out with the story in 1995 and now, nearly 20 years later, I guess she’s still trying to see if there’s any cash in the old clunker yet.
Yes, and I don’t want to marry him and I doubt that anybody else here does either! We just want a candidate who will punch Obama in the nose and knock him and his agenda flat on the mat.
You are right on target. Gingrich is so yesterday. We need a fresh face who can win back the Reagan Democrats, and reel in some blue states into the Republican column. According to polling analyses, Gingrich loses a key 18-29 demographic, independents, and he loses the female vote in spades. Although I will vote for him against Obama, I am afraid that his nomination(like it would be with Romney’s) is a recipe for disaster come November.
The phrase actually has some usefulness.
Our system is now cronyism,,but it is endlessly cast as “capitalism”. So now, when most people less wise than you think “capitalism”, they think GS, GE, GM, Solyndra, AIG, Countrywide, etc etc. They keep referring to industry/government incest as “capitalism”.
Turning opinion is like turning a ship. It can begin by continuing to call the state of affairs what it is,, cronyism masquerading as capitalism, IE “crony capitalism”. This phrase Sarah gave us is catchy, and instantly contrasts against actual capitalism.
It reminds the young, and the less educated that the Conservatives do not mean todays conditions when we champion “capitalism”. It gives us a chance to explain what we oppose, and are for, like no phrase i’ve seen in 20 years.
So i will keep using it,, and everyone else should too. (unless of course, you are from GE and like to call the windmill business “capitalism”.)
Well from all the posts I guess we would have been happy with John Edwards - we know he only cheated once!
Morals can be taken off the table since all of the Gingrich clan did unto others as others had done to them.
The justification for adultery as a Christian just amaze me!
In addition to being ugly, your comment is factually incorrect.
It was Newt’s first wife who was his High School geometry teacher.
This interview is by his second wife, the one on whom he cheated for 6 years with Callista Bisek, now his third wife.
Did you say Drudge is gay? Proof?
Full-fledged moral relativism. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
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