Posted on 01/18/2012 6:01:15 PM PST by Qbert
You know who this benefits?
Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview. Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEWS cameras, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.She spoke to ABCNEWS reporter Brian Ross for two hours. Her explosive revelations are set to rock the campaign. But now a “civil war” has erupted inside of the network, an insider claims, on exactly when the confession will air!
Just a little more late intrigue for a race that’s already in flux from Newt’s post-debate surge, Palin’s quasi-endorsement, Santorum’s possible victory in Iowa (the official results will be announced tomorrow morning), Perry’s uncertain status vis-a-vis calls for him to drop out, and yet another debate tomorrow night. Drudge says the interview’s tentatively set to air Monday, after the vote in South Carolina, but reporters from Politico and the NYT are hearing it’ll air … tomorrow, presumably before the debate. I’m surprised his ex didn’t insist that it be broadcast ASAP. If she’s coming clean now after years of silence, just as he’s readying his last stand against Romney, she’s obviously doing it to try to take him out. If you were her, wouldn’t you want it to drop before the primary?
Actually, she hasn’t been completely silent. Go read the Esquire piece from 2010 that everyone will be murmuring about until this thing finally airs. Quote:
Back in the 1990s, she told a reporter she could end her husband’s career with a single interview. She held her tongue all through the affair and the divorce and even through the annulment Gingrich requested from the Catholic Church two years later, trying to erase their shared past. Now she sits quietly for a moment, ignoring her eggs, trying to decide how far she wants to go.
Here’s the most sensational bit, after she found out about Gingrich’s new mistress:
She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed?She 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 many times. ‘All I want is a Chevrolet.’”
He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
He’d just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he’d given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.
The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, “How do you give that speech and do what you’re doing?”
“It doesn’t matter what I do,” he answered. “People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.”
If her interview runs along those lines — Gingrichian egomania and hypocrisy but nothing criminal or lurid — I don’t know how much it’ll change things. You never know what information voters have and haven’t fully assimilated about a candidate, but Newt’s “values” problems have been public knowledge long enough that I take it they’re already mostly priced into his stock. He’s going to say she’s a disgruntled ex who’s making things up and, in any case, that he’s found redemption in his faith since the divorce. Unless she’s got a bombshell she’s ready to drop, how many voters thinking of voting for him at this point will really think twice?
Exit question: If the interview does air tomorrow, how hard will Santorum and Romney go after him at the debate over it? Santorum’s desperate to have social conservatives unite behind him, but this is an awfully messy attack to try with the, er, “Chevrolet” sitting in the audience in front of him.
You got that right. Now if we can just get Santorum, Perry, Romney, Paul, and Obama to drop out of the race, Noot might have a chance.
Under the circumstances that family tragedy is fair game?
Newt is not an enemy. I just would rather Santorum who is way more conservative than Newt and others.
“Newts kids are campaigning for their Dad.”
That’s what I thought.
Thanks Qbert.
No,their mother is his first wife, Jackie Battley, who was his high school teacher. Yes, she did seduce the teenaged Newt. If this happened today, she'd have gone to jail. BTW - Jackie did NOT die of cancer, she is alive and well.
Another name for enemy is “adversary” and this scripture still applys. You may not get the result you desire. It depends on who God wants in office. His hand will uphold the person whoever it will be.
No,their mother is his first wife, Jackie Battley, who was his high school teacher. Yes, she did seduce the teenaged Newt. If this happened today, she'd have gone to jail. BTW - Jackie did NOT die of cancer, she is alive and well.
I believe he stated that in the debate with George & Diane.
IF you want to stay on the social issues then expect to keep losing. McCain did it too, did you vote for him OR Obama?
The old, disgruntled ex-wife. One should always check in with them prior to deciding who you are going to vote for. The people living in this country are morons!
I guess it wouldn't do any good to tell her that she's whoring herself like Cindy Sheehan. And just like Cindy, I'm sure her family will really appreciate it, too.
That should go over well with UAW workers at least!
Callista is the Chevy and Marianne is the Jaguar.
Unfortunately, it would basically has Zero effect!
why?
Because people are quite forgiving, and they would be
willing to forgive Newt, especially he has said many
times that he made mistakes — all are in the past!
Lets move forward!
I agree. The speed at which some Freepers can flip their positions and stated beliefs is incredible.
It depends on who God wants in office. His hand will uphold the person whoever it will be.
Well we can agree on that. May the best person win. I just hope it is Santorum. I suppose you hope it is Newt.
Er, I thought we already knew that Newt wasn’t exactly an exemplary husband? How exactly, other than as a desperate mudslinging move probably financed by the Romney campaign, is this supposed to matter for anything?
I support anyone but Newt frankly. And if the marriage is erased, then how can there have been children with a father's name? Sorry I don't see how this works in my Bible.
Well the speculation may be over as AP is reporting that ABC will air it tomorrow evening on Nightline.
Prior to the bail-out by obama, I held Chevrolet in high regard.
I guess I was lucky to have married a ‘Chevrolet’.......after 42 years of marriage, she’s still the Corvette of my dreams.
EODGUY
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