Posted on 01/19/2012 4:18:32 PM PST by TBBT
Newt Gingrich's two adult daughters said that charges by Gingrich's second wife in an interview with ABC News that the GOP presidential contender asked for an "open marriage" are categorically false.
Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman, Gingrich's daughters by his first wife, told ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross they had spoken with their father about Marianne Gingrich's allegation and that he had assured them he never asked for an open marriage.
"We spoke with him about that, Brian, and he said it's simply not true," said Kathy Lubbers. "The truth is our father and Marianne had a difficult marriage. They had a difficult divorce. ... The American people have moved on. Our father has moved on."
"I think most divorces are very painful, they're never easy," said Jackie Cushman. "Dad tried very hard to make their marriage work, and unfortunately it didn't."
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That's where a record comes in. Not just the record of votes, which is often a meaningless toll of positions taken for political reasons on bills that were always going to pass or were never going to pass, but a record of actions taken that actually mattered.
A record of actions taken that actually mattered. Newt is the man who fits that description to a "T".
He can identify what is most important to the country, develop a plan to overcome that challenge, articulate the the merits of overcoming the challenge and why the plan will work.
I hadn't been for Gingrich initially and spent plenty of energy excoriating him, these last several years, for any number of sins he committed against the Republican/Conservative ideals. He seemed a turncoat of sorts, particularly when he babysat Pelosi on the couch.
On reflection, Newt is an attention whore seeking relevancy for his ideas and I guess I take him at his word that he made a few mistakes in his life and he has at least some regret for those decisions. God knows I am no angel and so I have to reflect on the man's ability to get things done.
Newt gave us the Republican majority, the Contract with America and completed 2/3rds of his agenda while in office.
He now has a new plan for America and with what is likely to become a Congressional Super Majority and a Senate Majority, if not Super Majority, I believe he will absolutely accomplish his agenda.
Say goodbye to ObamaCare the single biggest scam and travesty foisted upon a free people who, by right, ought to have been given the opportunity to read the bill and debate it. Instead, a win at all cost, cheating agenda was developed and it was signed with most people never laying eyes on at least page 2 of this utopian dreck.
Executive Orders Positions:
The following are all within the executive powers to simply order and with the exception of securing the border within one year, they are all easily accomplished with the stroke of a pen and no way to challenge them in the legislature.
Keystone may be challenged in the courts but I think the Executive can order the EPA to approve, under National Security Priorities and it is a National Security issue, as well, a jobs issue.
As President, Newt, could actually have a very busy 1st week or month just on these initiative alone.
1. Eliminate the thirty-nine White House "Czar" positions created during the current administration. The president does not have the authority to appoint bureaucrats to power who are not accountable to the Congress.
2. "Mexico City Policy" of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the "Mexico City Policy"— to stop tax payer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.
3. Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers.No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable based on religious teaching. This protection should include, but not be limited to abortion. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.
4. Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital. Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own Capital. Accordingly, the U.S. State Department should be instructed to respect the choice of each sovereign nation and place the American embassy in their Capital. (Israel is the only country the United States discriminates against in this regard. The people of Israel have designated Jerusalem as their capital. Yet the United States retains its embassy in Tel Aviv.)
5. End the Attorney General's Assault on the States. Instruct the Attorney General to withdraw all immigration-related lawsuits against states immediately, including those pending in Arizona and South Carolina. The Obama Administration refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, and instead sues states who are merely trying to enforce the laws that the federal government neglects. The Gingrich Administration will secure the border by Jan. 1, 2014 by any means necessary.
Unleash American Energy by Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline. Instruct the State Department to approve a Presidential Permit immediately for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that will send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from Great Plains and Southwestern states to Gulf Coast refineries lower staggering energy prices, and create up to 120,000 American jobs.
Now we get into the details of an inclusive agenda that brings the people(you and me), through their representatives, into process. The TEA Party and conservatives are going to have a majority in both houses.
Let’s elect an Executive who will absolutely fulfill the promise of our ideals.
Newt gave us the three most important victories of the 90’s Welfare Reform, Balanced Budget and Reduced Taxes. I hope I don’t need to describe the benefits of those victories. They ought to be obvious to everyone by now.
Lastly, there have been some reports that Newt shouldn’t get all the credit. Really? Then perhaps we marginalize the accomplishments of Washington, Roosevelt, Kennedy and ….wait for it… Reagan.
Do we really want to go down the road with that kind of adolescent sophistry and parsing of what happened?
Newt is the guy who thought of these big things, proposed them and shepherded their implementation?
Newt has once again identified what is important to us now, at this time and described how we can get there with our representative majorities. He has done it before and I declare Newt Gingrich was then and is Now a leader.
We should elect Newt Gingrich to the Presidency of the United States
It’s not true? Are you kidding?
Why I was sure a bitter old ex wife would sit on the juiciest part of her story for 15 years waiting for the perfect time to spring it. I am just SHOCKED that Marianne was lying. Shocked I tell you!
ABC has now told the other side of the story. They are now free to repeatedly sell lies and ignore the other side of the story.
She looked bitter, angry and, frankly, not well.
They were legally separated at one point (well, twice, actually) and the separation agreement contained a clause permitting both of them to date other people during the separation. It was during the first of these separations that he met his present wife, Calista. So methinks Marianne is embroidering heavily.
Translated: Daddy and has money and put us up to this, Mommy doesn’t.
I’m with you. I was for Cain originally, and then I was for Perry. They’re gone, no going back. It’s time to get behind Newt and give him the support he needs to overcome the attacks! Despite his flaws, he’s the thug and streetfighter we need.
It is not true because the NEWTSTER told his daughters from his first marriage? Why am I not surprised that his daughters are running to his defense.
The only question I have is what kind of man sends his daughters out to defend him against this charge. Newt needs to grow a pair and answer the questions himself.
This holier than thou, I have repented crap that Newt is spewing is about as believable as the global warming commercial he did with Nancy Pelosi. Newt makes me want to puke
Is Zer0 bi or has he ever been bi?
That sounds like something the lame stream media would say.
Perhaps you forgot the /sarc tag. If not, I would remind you that Marianne was not these girl's mommy ...she was their step-mother, Newt's second wife.
Talking about yourself here?
The bags under her eyes have bags of their own. Looks rough.
Milwguy,
Have you not learned anything from Palin, Cain, and others that these kinds of charges only serve to knock a candidate off his message?
Or are you just a Democrat visiting?
Welcome, if you are.
Marianne isn't their Mother.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln
It is not true because the NEWTSTER told his daughters from his first marriage? Why am I not surprised that his daughters are running to his defense.
The only question I have is what kind of man sends his daughters out to defend him against this charge. Newt needs to grow a pair and answer the questions himself.
This holier than thou, I have repented crap that Newt is spewing is about as believable as the global warming commercial he did with Nancy Pelosi. Newt makes me want to puke
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SPOT ON. NAFTA Mae Newt got a Vietnam deferment and now he’s letting his kids help fight his ex-marital battles? This isn’t the sort of man I want answering the White House phone at 3AM! What would he do at that point - wake up the kids???
The only people who know what truly occurred in this marriage are Newt and Marianne. Everything else is hearsay.
Newt the guy who whored out to the ethanol/global warming crony capitalists?
Newt the guy who whored out to the Freddie Mac gov’t housing bubble crooks?
Newt the guy who whored around on both his first and second wife?
Newt is not fit to be POTUS and the fact so many FReepers support him now pretty pathetic.
I have been ‘visiting’ since 2000.
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