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.
Now we have Noot and people here say he has been redeemed or something for all his immorality and want all of us to get on his bandwagon. And the Church has given him an annulment; who knows what that means for children, perhaps they are illegitimate who knows.
What's good enough for Rudy is good enough for Noot IMO.
Just more proof that he is #whiteobama
Carol McCain, for one...
One wouldn't but the question is why now? If she truly wanted to hurt him she could wait until it looks as if he will get the nomination and then zing him. She could have done in while he was soaring in the polls in December so the timing is questionable.
This vindictive ex may just create more empathy for Newt. Sometimes these things backfire.
The late great Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia ran for Congress and lost. Two years later he was going through a nasty divorce, with even his estranged wife having him arrested, and he pulled out an electoral victory.
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.
Oh thank God this is getting out now so we can all vote for Santorum....no ex-wives and numerous girlfriends out there. God really is answering my prayers in having Santorum as our nominee. Thank you God!!!!!
Than why hold it until Monday? Releasing it now will cause the greater damage.
Is this the ex-wife who “dying of cancer” that she never had?
Just who do you support Hattie? have noticed you attacking Newt on every thread I go to..are you a Romney supporter? and why do you think Newt’s children may be illegitmate? that is insane.
Geez..no wonder he isn’t with this witch anymore. What Newt is guilty of is bad judgement in marrying her in the first place. I’m sick of these nasty women being trotted out to destroy candidates.
What I’m looking for is a five star general, not a saint.
"So who paid her? I want to know. Newt has been in politics for decades and she steps forward now. Come on she is a bitter ex wife as far as I am concerned I don’t care what she has to say."
If I had to bet, I would say it's the guy with all the money who just had a really damaging report come out about him, hours before this...
no wonder he didn’t want to stay with her....
Except against Mitt
Thankfully Mitt is getting clobbered too. He has had bad press all week. Newt’s news is real. Santorum has ZERO baggage. This is working out perfectly. Sorry Newt but you play with fire, you may just get burned.
Tell me something, in these fantasies of yours does she arrive in an invisible jet and deflect bullets with her magic bracelets?
With Cain it was a surprise. With Newt it isn't. Everyone has known since day one that he's carried tons of baggage around with him.
“People want to forgive and forget, by this time.”
I wonder what his kids say?
I smell Mitt’s Money. But unless Newt’s a child molester, I doubt she can say anything to surprise us.
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