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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I didn’t say Marianne is their Mother - even more reason for the daughters to “speak up”. Lol.
Classless comment! Pure speculation on your part. You need to pedal your “ideas” somewhere else!
Oh, for goodness sakes, do I really have to explain this to you?
She said in 1995, after being separated for 6 years and reuniting:
The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich (1995: Marianne Promised To "Undermine Everything" For Newt)
What happens if Newt runs?, I ask.
"He can't do it without me," she replies. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy" --she giggles at her naughtiness. "I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything...I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be."
Wow, yes, I know...(rolls eyes).
“none of the above...”
Is that how you think it works? Get real. What’s your plan? Sit this one out and snipe at everyone else? Grow a set.
I know women who would not vote for Palin..for whatever reason.
And I know PLENTY of women that WILL vote for Newt....because they aren't marrying the guy, they just want him to beat the hell out of Obama and his crew.
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Please explain.
Apparently you have little info but a lot of spite. So does the media, Dems and GOP elite. It certainly took their boy Slick Willard off the frontpage. They thank you.
Specifically, Newt might have tried to negotiate an open relationship with wife #2 by telling her his current girlfriend would allow such a relationship, even if he never brought the topic up with the girlfriend, and he wouldn't tell his children about any of this.
"Open marriage" was Marianne's interpretation of what Newt was saying to her. If he didn't use that exact expression, he can say she misunderstood him.
Whom do you support?
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.--Teddy Roosevelt
There may be better potential candidates out there, but they have decided not to enter the arena.
Yeah, MOVE ON you stupid libs...Mooooooove On!!!
News of the Lewinsky scandal first broke on January 17, 1998, on the Drudge Report website - 14 years ago this week. Yet we were told to “move on”...everyone lies about sex, sexual exploits don’t matter, and that we were simply engaging in ‘the politics of personal destruction’.
Really dear...I see more women freepers calling Marianne on her very old bitterness than I do a few like you playing the estrogen card and calling us all women haters.
Cain had bimbo eruptions and payoffs popping up everywhere. Newt has a mad ex wife 20 years later.
Plenty folks have mad ex wives and ex husbands.
Not many have a trail of shady women and money paid following them around running for POTUS if they are a Republican
Are you still mad about Cain...don't feel bad...today he endorsed you for POTUS in all his wisdom.
Remember when FR used to slam the left for trashing the women who came out with stories of infidelity?
Well, well. Looks like FR has adopted leftist tactics, doesn't it?
I don’t know if she has MS now, but Marianne didn’t at the time of their divorce. She had a condition that could lead to MS.
She has a right to be bitter about her divorce, but she doesn’t have the right to destroy a man’s career because of it.
Nobody is questioning Newt’s philandering ways, but the fact that America is well on the way to losing everything and Gingrich is the only presidential candidate capable of turning things around makes his personal life a non-priority.
Also, if you look at almost every past president or Forefather, most of them were problematic by the standards that we are judging Newt. George Washington is about the only one that could get a pass by those standards.
Marianne and ABC seems to have the drama queen thing in common - neither of them care about the issue - ABC would defend ANY dem against things a thousand times worse - but both want to destroy Newt. Way to go ABC - you're thrown away credibility you don't even have....
Most had Newt's standards? No, I do not think so.
LOL Maybe Ron Paul is right and Noot is a "chickenhawk" after all. The daughters should not be involved in this at all. Even grown children suffer great emotional damage from this kind of thing. He is even using his grandchildren on stages to show us he is a great family man? Come on now.
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