Newt’s Former Wife Claims He Lacks “Moral Character” & Wanted an Open Marriage (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6:46 AM
Newt Ginrich’s former wife told ABC that the former Speaker lacked moral character to be president. Marianne Gingrich also said Newt wanted an open marriage.
ABC reported:
Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as President, his second ex-wife Marianne told ABC News, saying his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage.
In her first television interview since the 1999 divorce, to be broadcast tonight on Nightline, Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich.
In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an “open marriage” arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.
She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich.
“And I just stared at him and he said, ‘Callista doesn’t care what I do,’” Marianne Gingrich told ABC News. “He wanted an open marriage and I refused.”
The Washington Post is also ready to pounce on Newt.
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Rachelle commented:
I wouldn’t care if he did have an open marriage.
I don’t want to marry him; I want him to run the country.
ANYTHING is better than the America-hating Kenyan.
Mama Grizzly commented:
Well, yes, that’s Newt. DC already knows, but nobody wanted that cat to get out of that bag . . .
The presidency is also about the First Lady.
No Newt. No Callista.
Two candidates have moral character: Romney and Santorum.
Besides, Newt has wanted to be president since he was an adolescent. Married his high school teacher, 10 years his senior, then another to help take him to the presidency, then another 26 years younger than himself–for all the wrong reasons.
Duke C commented:
What agenda do ex-wives have? Jane Wyman was a lady about Ronald Reagan, said nothing.
My first ex-wife is on her 5th husband, does that make me a bad guy? Let’s give Newt some time to counter allegations about Marianne. We gave Bill Clinton time to define what IS,’IS’.
Mama Grizzly commented:
And Rachelle, NO. You are completely wrong. “ANYTHING” is NOT better than Obama. Newt probably would be somewhat better, but he is mercurial and immoral.
Conservative to the Core commented:
Remember when there was just ONE allegation against Cain?
Mama Grizzly commented:
If America doesn’t care anymore about the moral fiber of their leaders, then we are no longer that “shining city.”
Mama Grizzly commented:
Cain was having an affair–cheating on his wife for many years. What a tragedy.
Highlander commented:
Blah, blah, blah ….
More smear tactics to cloud the real issues. I’d vote for ANY of our candidates before I voted for a man like Obama ….
Bob in VA commented:
Sounds like Bill and Hillary’s dilemna!
bronxdude commented:
Newt Ex = Cain 2012 Redux
Neo-Conned commented:
Another corrupt RepubliCorp candidate down. Only a couple more to go.
4 South Carolina Senators Endorse Ron Paul at Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xve7TdXzG4&feature=youtu.be
workingclass artist commented:
Obama gets 4 more years.
bg commented:
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WoW, honesty is not the best policy, oh wait..
what a load of who the hell gives a flying bats quano..
seriously, this country needs to GROW UP..
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
And Barack Obama and Rahm Emmanuel were card-carrying members “regulars” at a gay bath house in Chicago where gay men would perform free “acts” on the attendees in the locker room.
donh commented:
That’s it ? Gingrich surging and this is all Team Romney can come up with ?
Justin commented:
Neo-conned, if you think Ron Paul is ever going to President, you are delusional. He may get nominated by some crazy circumstances or something, but he will NEVER be president. That’s not an opinion it’s a fact.
Jenny commented:
Sorry, the litany of politicians affairs has become meaningless. I. Don’t. Care. All I know is I’m going to vote to remove Whatshisname from office.
Liz commented:
I don’t want him running the country. I don’t want him handling my tax dollars. I don’t want him near or influencing my children. Yucky, yucky, yucky. Now it’s time for Callista to speak up. As it stands, the woman has no dignity whatsoever.
Liz commented:
All I can say if this guy gets in, is save the dress, interns. I’m hoping America has had enough of this business. No more perverts, and no more of the experiment we are undergoing currently.
AnnaS commented:
Newt is skanky. Calista is not first lady material. That’s all.
CV1 commented:
If what Marianne Gingrich says is true and it hurts Newt, he has no one to blame but himself.
Neo-Conned commented:
Justin #17
Not all of us have bought into the statist mantra regarding Ron Paul. Whoever gets the most votes wins. The American people should will ultimately decide – not Republican party officials.
Neil Cavuto: “Ron Paul is Obama’s toughest competitor”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZx6gMF2lM&feature=player_embedded
Ron Paul is the only guy running who can beat Obama. In fact, he would CRUSH him. He is the polar opposite of Obama on every issue.
donh commented:
I was expecting Marianne to reveal Newt liked to wear her panty hose to work…..This news actually helps Newt pick up the Clinton voter disappointed with Obama.
bg commented:
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ht mcc
Newt-Goldwater 1976
[Long before there was a mighty Republican machine running Georgia,
there was a handful of brash conservatives plotting to lift their tiny,
financially struggling party so they could end more than a century of
Democratic dominance.
Among the chief architects was Newt Gingrich, a West Georgia College
assistant professor who ran for Congress three times in a blue-collar
district – twice against an entrenched Talmadge Democratic incumbent
- before finally winning.
Gingrich, now a presidential hopeful, traveled West and North Georgia
during the 1970s and ’80s, preaching the Republican gospel and arguing
that the GOP had to choose between remaining a silent, permanent
minority or aggressively taking the fight to Democrats.
He chose confrontation and played the role of
provocateur, unwilling to accept second place….
U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Savannah, calls Gingrich an “indispensable early
trailblazer” for Georgia Republicans. Kingston remembers his college days,
when Gingrich came to the University of Georgia to recruit students to
get involved in GOP politics.]
Ging O Newt!!
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retire05 commented:
Cheater In Chief – Vote Newt 2012
Highlander commented:
Mama Grizzly, I understand that moral character is an important issue. However, when you’re talking about people in government and positions of power, many marriages are made for reasons other than love. It’s always been that way, and it always will. Expecting to find the “perfect” candidate … a skilled leader who’s free of character flaws and has a flawless personal life, is simply not rational. In fact, I defy you to show me ANYONE who is without personal faults and character flaws. As long as they’re out in the open, and can’t be used to compromise the country’s security, I see no real problem with them.
Of course, I wouldn’t tolerate a criminal record, or a history of corruption in a Presidential candidate, nor would I tolerate the kind of nation-embarrassing shenanigans that Clinton had going on in the Oval Office, but the pre-electoral private lives of our candidates shouldn’t really be a factor when we assess their ability to lead this country and run our government. If we insist on making peoples’ less than perfect private lives a disqualifying factor, we eliminate almost every human being from the pool of viable candidates for public office …
Radegunda commented:
“Ron Paul … is the polar opposite of Obama on every issue.”
Uh, no. Both of them believe that when terrorists or other governments do bad things, it’s our fault. Both of them bend over backward to excuse or ignore the centuries-long jihadi war against the infidels.
retire05 commented:
bg, why do you say this country needs to grow up? Do you mean that we should be willing to throw out every Christian conservative value we have and just sucumb to being what the left has been pushing on us for over 100 years?
Vote No Values Newt.
olm commented:
#15 exactly.
Sandy commented:
Mama Grizzly — You said it Newt is mercurial. His ideas pass through his head and out of his mouth without a conscious thought. Give me boring Romney whose only problem is that he is rich.
bg commented:
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Clinton = accused of rape, IMPEACHED for lying..
Gingrich = honest with the wife..
yeah, samo samo duh fuhs.. gah!!
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Eddie Willers commented:
Has anyone seen Newt’s latest campaign video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVWHiCjVSDY
Valerie commented:
If Newt Gingrich gets the Republican nomination, that will be the end of the “bimbo eruptions,” and we’ll be able to talk about policy.
Amjean commented:
Newt’s ex is a bitter old prune. She misses the limelight and the money. Now she will get
her 15 minutes of fame. 50% of marriages end in divorce, with one spouse or the other
cheating. It is a fact of life. Those of you who are making this old news a major campaign
issue get over yourselves. You are not anyone’s moral compass.
retire05 commented:
bg, cheating on your wife is in no way being honest with her. If he didn’t love her anymore, fine, I can understand that. But to lie, sneak around and cheat before he even left her shows that he has all the morals of an alley cat who is willing to lie down with the first in-heat female that comes his way.
Where was Newt’s honesty? Why didn’t he at least give her, and himself, the respect of filing for a divorce before he started chasing another skirt? How is Newt Gingrich any different than Bill Clinton? He’s not, its just that Newt didn’t do it in the Oval Office.
Sandy commented:
retire 05 — As usual I agree with you. A Newt Presidency would be about him and not about the American people. No more street fighters with big mouths. America’s problems cannot afford to be ignored for another 4 years.
retire05 commented:
#35, Amjean, ever been cheated on? Ever had to experience what it is like to be told, after 18 years, that you are not good enough anymore and that your spouse has found someone he/she thinks is better than you? Ever had your self respect and honor so totally destroyed?
I hope some day you understand what it feels like. Then you will not be so quick to slander those that have.
Jack Burton commented:
I hope this finally puts a knife in his candidacy. I know quite a few folks like him, but I will never get over his idiotic endorsement of DeDe what’s her name in NY in 2010. That and his ambush of Ryan and commercial with the troll Nancy. With those accomplishments, how could anyone support that fool?
Azcon commented:
In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left his first wife after beginning an affair with Marianne Ginther.
So this” lady” was having an affair with a married Newt Gingrich. I guess she was for open marriages at one time.
doc commented:
The attributes for a successful President have nothing to do with their sex life or marriage…weren’t we told that repeatly by the democrats during Clinton’s impeachment trial. Clinton wasn’t “convicted” ever for his sexual oddities while sitting at the desk in the Oval office, no matter how perverted or distracting they were…he was convicted of lying and lost his law license over it. Gingrich, as reported by ABC, has never lied about his sex life or mistresses…in fact he has been more transparent about it than the Obama campaighn has been about Biden’s recent fundraising efforts. Just why did they exclude the press from his speeches to fundraisers?
porpiesmom commented:
until the MSM starts asking hard questions of Obama…I do not care what they drag out of the past from other candidates..
JenBee commented:
The freaking lamestream media… they absolutely ignore and cover 2008 Dem candidate John Edwards’ affair (that produced a child no less) on his cancer-stricken, dying wife… but this 12-year old news about Newt’s affair is a front-page, blaring headline news.
Oh the hypocrisy of the Left/media.. it never ceases to amaze me, what they get away with.
daryl commented:
Ironic that Rick Perry in stepping down may have pushed Newt into the lead.
Patty commented:
You know I really don’t care about what she has to say.
Take a moment an rattle the cob webs out of your heads. HILLARY, look at this woman riding the coat tails of Billy.
She has been an embarrassment. Bill Clinton had many. many affairs and he was even impeached. That family has some real psychological problems.
People like this “woman” wants to get attention and be a “wh$#e and look that way let her. They all trot out for money and have been search out to ruin reputations, in time.
Seems when Hillary was running she told us she was attacked by gunfire in Bosnia. Lie, she loves to inflated her career. The means in which she does is for self serving purposes.
Sorry but I don’t feel Gingrich is running for the same reasons.
Michael commented:
@ Mamma Grizzly – I afraid a majority of Americans have long since given up on caring about the moral fiber of their leaders.
Bill Clinton’s shenanigans in the Oval Office, should have sent him slinking off into the sewer, like the sewer rat he is, never to be heard from again. Instead he is the beloved Elder Statesman of politics, currently revered by way too many people.
Hillary Clinton covered and condoned her husband’s lack of moral fiber and she’s seen by way too many people as the beloved leader of the State Department.
If the majority of Americans cared about true moral fiber in a leader, a Marxist/Socialist far-left radical named Barack oBama would never had been elected. His outright lies and political distortions to shred the Constitution and increase his own wealth and power, goes unchallenged.
Newt Gingrich will not get the nomination for many reasons, but warts and all, he would still be better than oBama.
#1AMERICAN commented:
why didn’t the scorned beeotch come out when Newt first got in the race…my guess is that ozeros people are paying her some hefty amount of cash…
gee! commented:
#1 spot on………..this comes when Newt is up over Romney in South Carolina……….We all have known that Newt doesn’t have a good track-record when it comes to marriages………but neither do i ………sometimes it takes some of us more time and alot of growing up and with that comes with some bitterness and angery exes……..this shows more about her charater than it does Newt………..just sayin
Sam Stone commented:
With all the push to redefine marriage by the freak left, this should be good news to them!
Eddie Willers commented:
Food for thought for you Newt supporters.
You call always tell a progressive is losing an intellectual argument when they resort to playing the moral equivalency card. I’m just saying…
Neo-Conned commented:
#28 Radegunda – You are sadly misinformed regarding Ron Paul’s stance on terror.
injunjoe commented:
at least he asked…
Zim commented:
This is dirty Chicago politics from Obama. He has been pulling this crap for years in this state. None of these democrats cared about Bill Clinton.
People change and I’d vote for Newt. Anyone but Obama.
AvantiBev commented:
If Mama Grizzly cares so much about moral fiber, she won’t find any in that trampy wife of Rick Santorums. That’s what you get Rick when you marry a shiksa-rella.
bg commented:
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BREAKING!! BREAKING!! THIS JUST IN!!
NEWT JERKEDOFF WHEN HE WAS 12!!
READ, UH, HEAR ALL ABOUT AT 7 & 11!!
YES ~ GROW UP!!
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Mama Grizzly commented:
When a man (Newt Gingrich) marries a woman 26 YEARS his junior (young enough to be he daughter or younger) someting is out of balance. It’s important to stop making excuses. Newt first marries his highschool teacher 10 years older, then another (who purportedly wasn’t “pretty enough or young enough” to be a president’s wife, then a third way younger than himself. Newt has badly wanted to be president since he was a teenager, maybe younger. When a man is driven to it, something is out of balance. His own record shows something is out of balance.
And there is the potential First Lady herself to consider.
First Lady?
http://www.therealstevegray.com/wp-content/uploads/newt-gingrich-and-callista-gingrich.jpg
http://blackchristiannews.com/news/newt.gingrich.callista.jpg
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Callista+Gingrich/Newt+Gingrich/32nd+Kennedy+Center+Honors/qokZO2pmny6
OR
http://mittromneycentral.com/uploads/romney-family-photo-xmas-600px.jpg
http://themoderatevoice.com/wordpress-engine/files//2011/06/01aaa-card-romney.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CnVJDJyAXXY/TsL_JIdZkVI/AAAAAAAAA-U/8IhGpk-btT4/s320/ann_romney.jpg
OR
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SantorumFamily20111.jpg
http://img4.allvoices.com/thumbs/image/609/480/38697135-santorum-family.jpg
I think the choice is clear.
Eddie Willers commented:
@ Neo Conned
So Charles Martel & the folks in Tours were victims of U.S. Foreign Policy yes?
Why did Ferdinand & Isabella need to find an alternate trade route to the Spice Islands?
Why did Jefferson feel the need for a strong Navy to protect our international commerce? What was the threat to our shipping interests back 1802?
The real worlds doesn’t take place in the theoretic vacuum of one of dr. (intentional small d) Paul’s, lecture halls.
Teddy Roosevelt had the Bull Moose Party you Paulniaks should start the OSTRICH PARTY.
Georga Mae Collins commented:
I want to know how much ABC paid this woman. Always blame the man, right? What kind of wife was she? I don’t buy it, but someone did, guaranteed.
bg commented:
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when are they going to “vet” Marianne’s
embellished “tell all again” tale?? /sarc/
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Noovuss commented:
*yawn*
Jack Burton commented:
would some of the Newt supporters please address his support of Dede Scozzafava. She was about as conservative as the idiot in chief and yet Newt decided to stick his nose in the race.
Major Kong commented:
Wow! And it’s only January 19th. Won’t be much left to slash and burn by the time the eventual nominee is selected. DNC and “MSM” rubbing it’s collective hands together and orgasmically sighing how much they love it when a plan comes together.
Patty commented:
OT
Are The GOP Debaters Foolish Enough to Take CNN’s Bait?
The voters, however, largely understand the gravity of the situation — and once again are way ahead of most of the candidates and their consultants as well as the pundit class. Thus, they respond on those occasions when the candidates figure it out as well. On Monday night, Newt figured it out. He put the Bain disaster behind him and re-focused on the problem: Barack Obama and liberalism. He aimed, fired and scored several direct hits and might have saved his campaign in the process.
Tonight he and all of the candidates have another opportunity to do the same. There is the Keystone Pipeline issue just lying there for the taking, not to mention the recess appointments made by Obama and of course the NLRB assault on South Carolina is still a raw issue.
The candidate who ignores the CNN bait and his GOP opponents and focuses on the real problems will win this debate. If none of them figure this out, we all lose and it’s a win for CNN and Barack Obama. You know that and I know that instinctively. Why is this so hard to figure out?
*CNN SOURCE: ‘WE HAVE REPUBLICAN DEBATE OF YEAR TOMORROW NIGHT. WE ARE GOING TO LET THEM JUST GO AT IT’… DEVELOPING…
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/are_the_gop_debaters_foolish_enough_to_take_cnns_bait.html#ixzz1jvP7mSrU
bg commented:
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Neo-Conned #51 January 19, 2012 at 10:57 am
oh really??
please, before i go and knock myself out refuting that with facts..
pray tell, what is your version of the Ron Paul stance on terror??
thankyouverymuch..
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Noovuss commented:
BTW
How did the charges against Cain go??????????????????????????????
Just more BS.
Neo-Conned commented:
Eddie,
You’ll never understand Paul’s foreign policy perspective unless you understand basic principles:
1.) The principle of “blowback” clearly stated by the CIA, resulting from our foreign policy.
2.) The difference between military spending and defense spending.
3.) A Constitutional approach to military action around the world.
These aren’t difficult concepts to grasp. Here’s the challenge: in order to INTEGRATE these concepts one must make a clear PARADIGM SHIFT from our policies over the past 50+ years. That paradigm shift is clearly underway in the American electorate.
Patty commented:
BREAKING: New Rasmussen poll now has Gingrich leading Romney in S.C.
Rasmussen Reports
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has now surged ahead of Mitt Romney in the final Rasmussen Reports survey of the South Carolina Republican Primary race with the vote just two days away. The latest telephone survey of Likely GOP Primary Voters in the state finds Gingrich with 33% support to Romney’s 31%. Two days ago, before the last debate, it was Romney by 14 percentage points. Texas Congressman Ron Paul now runs third with 15% of the vote, followed by former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum at 11%. Paul’s support is steady while Santorum’s support has dropped five points since Monday….
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2012_south_carolina_republican_primary
Jaimo commented:
How moral is the *itch former wife. Didn’t she engage in an affair with Newt while he was married to his first wife? Well then she’s just as immoral as he is and should just shut her mouth and maybe her legs.
God, can’t Newt find a woman who is at least pretty. Ugh!
Sasja commented:
Me thinks retire05 has some personal issues which are totally irrelevent. Then to wish on another (Amjean) the same destruction you experienced, is petty and cruel. I suggest you all climb down from your high horse and concentrate on the really important issues, one being getting The Evil One out of the WH.
For Pete’s sake, JFK not only slept around before and after he became president, but had brother Robert and that bad actor (in more ways than one), Peter Lawford, pimp for him.
This is a non-story. Just another bitter, sad woman, who probably received a little cash for her few moments in the limelight.
USMC Thomas commented:
The “other woman” becomes “the wife” becomes “the bitter ex-wife dumped for the other woman.”
What goes around comes around.
Seth commented:
So our former Secret Service documents clerk–who was “dating” Newt when he was still married to his first wife, and who, for some unaccountable reason, kept the last name of the man she claims is such a rat, weighs in on Newt’s qualifications to be President, heh?
Just look at her face, look at her expression–those pursed lips–they will tell you all you need to know about her, and her reliability and objectivity.
ilikai commented:
like Willy Clinton had the morals of Jesus, Kennedy was a saint, and Obamanation doesn’t swing both ways….. immorality of marriage seems to be a prerequesit to be President now a days so Newt will fit in perfectly.
FurryGuy commented:
And knowingly shacking up with someone who is married to another is the actions of a paragon of virtue, above reproach? PUH-LEEZE.
Both show they are deeply flawed persons, as we all are, yet which of the two has publicly admitted they made mistakes? Certainly ain’t the 2nd ex-Mrs Gingrich.
Hey, if we want someone with moral character let’s nominate Jim Bakker or Jimmy Swaggart.
Patty commented:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288514/very-bitter-robert-costa
In response to the Drudge Report’s scoop about Marianne Gingrich’s interview with ABC News, Bob Walker, a senior Gingrich adviser, tells National Review Online that the campaign will fight back. “It is pretty nasty to use personal tragedy for political exploitation,” he says. “That was a very bitter divorce, and you’re talking about somebody who is still, probably, very bitter.”
Beyond Walker, several sources close to the Gingrich campaign agree on the merits, but predict that Gingrich will likely ignore the story. They tell NRO that the interview is a “retread” of an Esquire magazine article published in 2010, and that Gingrich will not respond to the broadcast, at least in any official capacity.
“He’ll answer questions from voters, he’s not running away from anything, but these are old issues from the divorce,” says one source. “He has addressed these issues before, and there is nothing new here.”
More @ link
Eddie Willers commented:
@ Neo-Conned #65
BLOWBACK don’t make me laugh…
I’ve read all of Chalmers Johnsons’ books, he, Paul, You are Revisionists…
Go back over to the Kool aide filled watering hole that is LewRockwell.com with your nonsense. I know history you, choose to ignore it…
moron commented:
Great, ABC next to report on the Larry Sinclair testimony???
bg commented:
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if Obama/Axelrod can not only sue to get an opponents PRIVATE DIVORCE
DECREE MADE PUBLIC in order to win, but keep his BC to nth degree past
secreted.. what does that tell US?? it tells me that OBAMA not only lives
in a bubble of IMPUNITY, but that he was GROOMED to FUNDAMENTALLY
TRANSFORM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.. iow: he’s where he is to
serve a purpose, and as we have evidenced, it’s not “we the people”..
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Mama Grizzly commented:
This woman is broken-hearted. Perhaps she was told that Newt was divorced before they hooked up. Some guys do that.
In any case, and OPEN MARRIAGE?? In other words: agree with me that I can eff anyone I want and you’ll still be my wife.
And some of y’all want him to be president? Unbelievable.
Amjean commented:
Retire 05 – yes, I have. And I have the “moral compass”, if you will, to not try to destroy that
person’s career years later. For you see, I have moved on and am not an embittered old prune.
I also did not stay in the marriage in order to have fame and fortune.
BTW, why do you take what she says years later as fact? Did the thought ever occur to you that SHE might be lying as to the details of what happened?
Fionnagh commented:
#77 And some of y’all want him to be president?
Yep, I most certainly do. #1 gets it. Clearly, you don’t.
bigL commented:
How dumb are we? Remember “Sexual history and cavorting is none of anybody’s business” and “it is a private matter”. And “everyone lies about sex”
En
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
This pretty much says it all. She waits until NOW to air this?
Vindictive little scumbag.
Holder's AK-47s kill Mexicans commented:
This should get him a lot of democrat votes.
Or at least more support from Hollywood and New York.
Hell, Anthony Weiner will now come out and support him.
bg commented:
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re: those who mentioned LARRY SINCLAIR
Three Members of Obama’s Church Killed
[Sinclair has also asked: why would Young - whom he had never met -
initiate these calls by contacting him on cell phone numbers known only
in the Obama camp? Further, a private investigator connected to the
Chicago Police Department told the Globe, “Donald Young was silenced
because of something he knew about Obama. Donald was in a position
where he heard a lot of things and saw a lot of things concerning Barack.”
[..]
Are three murders within the span of 40 days among members of America’s
most discussed church—one run by the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright
– enough to arouse the suspicions of Chicago law enforcement officials
and members of the national media?]
MSM O’bobbleheads et al = DEAFENING CRICKETS!!
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Conservative to the Core commented:
Romney/Rove is really doing us a favor. If Gingrich had won the primary and this came out during the general election is wouldn’t have been good. It’s called culling the herd.
bg commented:
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Patty #66 January 19, 2012 at 11:12 am
thanks..
btw, hearing Romney lost in Iowa..
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Nanna commented:
Newt said several weeks ago that he had done a lot of things he was ashamed of and had asked God for forgiveness. If that is the case, it isn’t up to us to judge, it is between Newt and God.
We must think about the country, not what the MSM puts out against our candidates. They want four more years of Obama.
The media has gone out of it’s way to smear our candidates, while ignoring that Obama is killing this country while living like a emperior.
Amjean commented:
#77, Mama Grizzly
“broken-hearted” my behind! She is a vindictive old bat. If this is how she acted during
the marriage, I quite frankly do not blame Newt for seeking comfort elsewhere.
FurryGuy commented:
So you take the words of a scorned woman without even attempting to hear the other (Newt’s) side?
The timing of this “revelation” has many of the hallmarks of being a political smear, no matter what the truth behind it all.
But hey, let’s take the word of someone that has just as little of a moral compass as Mr. Gingrich supposedly has. After all she was just someone who was only helping Newt to cheat on his wife, and then became a cheated upon wife herself.
No matter how this falls out, all it shows it both are deeply flawed people, as are we all. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Amjean commented:
#87 Nanna
You are 100% correct. Too bad some of the less intelligent voters won’t see it that way.
bg commented:
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#85 January 19, 2012 at 11:38 am
Conservative to the Core
but that’s the most maddening aspect of this farcical..
IT’S NOT NEWS..
ALL OF THIS & MORE HAS BEEN AIRED TIME & AGAIN..
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Eddie Willers commented:
Moral equivalency & justification via the “they (in this case Democrats) do it too argument”.
Yep Gingrich & his supporters really are Wilsonian Progressives of the 1st order.
Mimi commented:
The reason I can’t vote for Newt is because he was for TARP. He and Romney thought TARP was necessary. Not conservative at all.
Patty commented:
#86 January 19, 2012 at 11:39 am
bg commented:
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bg commented:
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re: #91 January 19, 2012 at 11:42 am bg
all they are doing is trying to put a NEW SPIN on an OLD SPIN, and milk it
for all the orchestrated hatred& tv ratings it’s worth, and “we the people”
seem all too eager to swallow this bs time & again as well.. *sigh*
yep, another “manufactured crisis”, don’t let it go to waste.. /s/
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Gilberto commented:
Who cares…Newt won’t win the nomination anyway.
StrangernFiction commented:
BREAKING NEWS: Mitt Romney is still a lying POS, and a statist.
Carry on.
David commented:
I think it is really good that all of this (Romney’s taxes, Gingrich’s personal life) is coming out now and not later in the year. Sure, the liberals will invent other stories but by then hopefully people will be sick of the personal attacks
myohmy commented:
Which is better president one who cheats on his wife or president who has offshore account to avoid paying taxes?
Proud Paulbot commented:
Ron Paul on the issues, in his own words, without being interrupted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h1GjxwpLrLQ#!
AnnaS commented:
Sasja it is not a comment on all those former wives and concubines of Gingrich. They are not wanting to be elected president. It’s about him!!!
bg commented:
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hey.. anyone else notice the Ronpauls are getting
better at spoofing their sex & drugs cult master??
ROTF
MBO!!
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daryl commented:
What’s that you say #55?
Wouldn’t you have had to have been there to make an accusation like that and speak truthfully?
And we all know how much store you set in truthfulness as many times as you’ve called us liars and avowed your own truthfulness and belief in facts.
donh commented:
We need somebody who can win over the Clinton Democrat… This helps.
More liberty commented:
I don’t care for Newt regardless. He as been consistently against the US Constitution and individual liberty.
Whats funny is hearing you partisans complain about fat-boy Clintons exploits and then minimize the statist Newts actions.
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#82 January 19, 2012 at 11:33 am
Blacque Jacques Shellacque
no, not the first time, also not
the first time it’s been noted =
it’s OLD NEWS..
bit more here..
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bg commented:
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worth repeating..
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Fionnagh commented:
#93. Okay, and therefore, with Newt and Mitt out of the way, your support goes to which candidate???????????????????????
Fionnagh commented:
#106. Don’t call me partisan. I’m an independent. Voted for Clinton twice. And I hope to vote for Newt twice as well. In different elections, of course:)
bg commented:
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uhm, how about Marianne Ginthers “moral compass’,
i mean, there was a first, ergo, was she a sainted 2nd
wife??
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reliapundit commented:
the anti-freemarket newt is also a slimeball.
low as bj clinton.
if you don’t think that matters,m then u might as well vote obama.
FurryGuy commented:
At the very least, Perry “gets it”:
Perry: ‘Newt Is Not Perfect, But Who Among Us Is?’
bg commented:
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#106 January 19, 2012 at 12:24 pm
More liberty
Clinton = accused of having an affair, attempted rape, as
well as rape, IMPEACHED for lying about having sex in “we
the people’s” OVAL OFFICE..
Gingrich = accused of being OPEN & HONEST with his ex-wife..
yep, lots of comparisons can clearly be made, toss in Bialek, and we not
only have a Ménage à trois, three times the stupid we already suffer..
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FurryGuy commented:
Another self-appointed pundit telling people how they must believe and vote.
No thanks, I’ll make my own choices, and leave you the freedom to choose as well.
gary gulrud commented:
Looks like life has been hard the decade since Neut. Empathy? Not really.
mcc commented:
There’s always the other side:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/when-marianne-cleaned-out-the-house/
kozanne commented:
Sure wish the lamestream 0bama boot licking media was as quick to jump on John Edwards using campaign funds to screw around on his dying wife as they are about personal matters Newt has already addressed in one of the first debates.
We have a 50% divorce rate in this country, so what is the big deal here?
Let’s see this for what it really is, the Left trying to get OUR field they way they want it, so 0bozo can win re-election. Time to tell the lamestream media we are fed up with their sophomoric crap and start boycotting the lamestream advertisers.
Mitch Rapp commented:
How much payola was involved with ABC and their interview with Newt’s ex? Was it verified or was it another CAIN type SLAM.
bg commented:
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and then we have the pedophile at heart Ron Paul..
[When looking at cases of consensual sex between a person aged 15 and
a person aged 30, why can we not leave these people alone if this is what
they want, or at the most ostracize them for being ‘gross’, if that’s what
you think of it.”]
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KR commented:
…and the Obamas don’t have an open marriage? Let’s hear some truth on their arrangement… and barry’s dead lovers.
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mcc #118 January 19, 2012 at 1:03 pm
[Documents related to the divorce filed Friday in Cobb County Superior Court include a separation agreement signed by the couple and notarized in December 1987. There is no indication it was ever filed.
Gingrich’s divorce attorney, Thomas Browning, said Marianne Gingrich called her husband on his birthday in June 1987 to tell him she was leaving him. Gingrich, he said, came back to Georgia to find his home emptied out.
Browning said the pair maintained separate residences
for six years before reconciling in late 1993 or early 1994.]
yes, after-all, she was #2, ergo, was she
having an affair with her future husband??
aah, all of this is so OLD NEWS..
re: #115 January 19, 2012 at 12:53 pm bg
trois, three = trois, but three
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sammi commented:
# 64……….the women that accused and character assassinated a INNOCENT and good man who has help many people with money through his church disappeared in the darkness of night! No evidence she ever existed and no one knows where she is ………just saying! This happened the night Mr Cain suspended his run. Don’t you think this is odd? I would love to see the size of the check she got.
#77…….you are delusional and void of facts. Why did she wait almost 20yrs? Lets see her before and after bank balance. Newt will get the nomination and if he doesn’t it won’t matter because people will not reelect the bumbling kenyan fool living at 1600.
S. Wolf commented:
Mama Grizzly #4
re mercurial and immoral. So was Andrew Jackson.
Skip commented:
I love how any article turns into a Paulbot spamfest. Slow day at the Stormfront boards?
bg commented:
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fyi moral compasses..
worth repeating..
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Vicky Hernandez commented:
Now LA Times, release the Rashid Khalidi tape. Otherwise, there’s no reason for “news” makers to dredge up the past on anyone’s peccadilloes.
It’s like Rachelle @ #1 posted:
“…[We] don’t want to marry him; [We] want him to run the country…”
Hear! Hear!
Militant Conservative commented:
Don’t care, just get me a warm body with an R
after his name. ABO, anybody but Obama.
Kathteach commented:
I have loved Newt since back in his glory days with the Contract for America and term limits and the way he finessed Clinton into finally signing welfare reform…..but I remember being so angry at him for his “conspicuous absence” during the Clinton impeachment push. Then he quit! I would have – at one time – walked off a cliff like a lemming for the guy but his own retirement from the federal scene and his reluctance to focus on the egregious immorality of Clinton as our President made me suspicious. Also – his outrage at the Romney PAC ads about his having to pay $300,000 to the Sentae as the result of his ethics investigation (all he was mad about was that Romney called it a fine – it was semantics – he had to pay the money and he dis ) made me realize that Newt is on his Last Hurrah – Ego Style and……frankly – he lost me when he pulled away from impeaching that scoundrel Clinton.
I promise – I adored him like no other back in the day. But he has done a lot of things since then to convince me he is not the EGO we want in the White House. Too much weird stuff in his record and personal life.
I am with Mama Grizzly here about 100%.
bg commented:
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hah, so many judges, so little facts, oh wait..
she said so.. duh!! /s/
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Kathteach #130 January 19, 2012 at 1:52 pm
re: [having to pay $300,000 to the Senate
as the result of his ethics investigation]
December 8, 2011
Revisiting Newt Gingrich’s 1997 Ethics Investigation
[With "Renewing American Civilization," history-professor-turned-
politician Newt Gingrich had a college course — a program that was
supposed to be insulated from partisan politics and campaign cash.
The litany he used in the classroom
sounds much like one he uses today.
"American civilization cannot survive with 12-year-olds having babies,
15-year-olds shooting one another, 17-year-olds dying of AIDS, and
18-year-olds graduating with diplomas they cannot read," Gingrich
lectured.
But then, as now, Gingrich had several overlapping projects going on.
And Democrats alleged that Gingrich used the college course to promote
a political agenda.
[..]
For nearly two years, the House ethics committee
investigated this and other Democratic allegations.
In the end, the House voted overwhelmingly, 395-28,
to reprimand Gingrich and to fine him $300,000.
[..]
The original charges had fallen by the wayside. Gingrich admitted
he had unintentionally but materially misled the committee and had
failed to keep the college course insulated from partisan politics.]
so much for manufactured crisis’.. /s/
oh yeah, did you know he was an “indispensable early trailblazer”??
no, neither did i, but i do now, and so do you..
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jorgen commented:
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
Kathteach commented:
RE: Jorgen…..In a world where the social construct of marriage is under serious challenge (as in should it really be only a contract between a man and a woman in order to propagate our race in a civilized manner?) – you better believe that there are many of us who believe in that contract between a man and a woman and the sanctity of marriage between ONE man and ONE woman.
And those of you who say otherwise are not only not conservatives – you are fringe – extreme fringe – Democrats.
Please feel free to vote accordingly if this is the major thing we all want to focus on as our nation is crumbling into a European socialist model.
Zoiks commented:
FLASHBACK VIDEO:
“If You Cheat On Your Wife, You’ll Cheat On Your Business Partner” – Rick Perry
http://www.breitbart.tv/perry-if-you-cheat-on-your-wife-youll-cheat-on-your-business-partner/
Perry is such a moron. He and Newt deserve each other.
Molon Labe commented:
I am not sure how many people can claim to have lead flawless or pure lifes. I am sure that someone who is a politician has to have less than a really, really moral stature, although there are a few exceptions. But those who are throwing stones at Newt had better explain why they didn’t hold McCain, Guliana, Obama, Clinton,Kennedy, Barney Frank, and many., many others to the same standard.
I do not approve of Newt’s behavior. But in weighing the nation’s future if I am asked to factor in Newt’s failures against Obama’s endless lies and failues I think I’ll side with Newt.
Compared to Romney and Romney’s Obamalike tactics and lies, there is no question that I’d prefer Newt.
Newt is not my first choice, but I’d rather support him than rely on Romney, a human weathervane and the dhimmies choice.
Mary commented:
So, Marrianne, Calista was to you as you were to Jackie. You knew he was a cheater when you married him…and you have the gall to talk about ‘moral character’? You must really be a liberal because you are such a hypocrite….
The world is on fire and BHO is at Disney World….somehow that is appropriate….and the media wants to talk about Newt not keeping his pants zipped 17 years ago. I hope he mops the floor with the CNN ‘moderators’ tonight…
Mama Grizzly commented:
Why do you say that Romney is the Dhimmies choice (and yes, I know what that means)?
He’s pro-military, pro-Israel, and anti-Iran etc.
Mary commented:
Rick Santorum 2012
Kathteach commented:
We have never – ever – in American history seen more of a human weathervane and the dhimisses’ choice than Obama. The reason we are paying twice the amount fro gasoline is because Obama’s main campaign contributors come form the OPEC nations…..
So stop the effort to equate Romney with the likes of our first Muslim President – Obama.
It is rhetorically ineffective. We have never – ever -ever -ever – seen the likes of a man like Obama in the White House and if God loves our nation as I believe He does – we never will again.
Mama Grizzly commented:
I still think she’s broken-hearted and po’d too. Who wouldn’t be? OPEN MARRIAGE??
Why Newt would do this: divorce looked worse back then for candidates, so he wanted to keep the image and still bang the aide.
Now listen: do you want this in the White House? Regardless of what the media is blabbing?
Do you want this “Oh, Newt, I really don’t care what you do–I’ll still “be there” for you. . . ” as our FIRST LADY?
Really?
We already have one man in office who has beyond questionable morals (the whole gay thing, likes white blonde women bi thing) and we see it does leak into his “leadership.”
Black, mulato, white — doesn’t matter. Dem/Repub. Doesn’t matter. This kind of thing is a mirror to the rest of their dealings.
I can’t vote for this kind of “representation.”
Staking my vote on Romney.
I was impressed with the “Pro Life Accomplishments” video on his website.
Greg commented:
I think maybe the politics of personnel destruction has about caused a majority of folks to align it with calls of racism and chuck the whole business in to the sewer for flushing… I look for Newt to do very well in South Carolina
sablegsd commented:
I don’t want to hear anything from the media except the digging they have done on comrade downgrade.
SteveM commented:
So Marianne is complaning that Newt did to her what he did with her to his first wife? Did she think that by her cheating with him that he would change when he married her? Sorry about your bitterness, but then your were just as dumb as his was. Differnce is, He has apologized for his indiscretions. Just another hit piece by the lame stream media to take out a potential candidate that scares the left to death. They sure would not want Newt in a debate with their chosen one.
burt commented:
Since when does character count? It didn’t count when Clinton was President. It doen’t count with Obama. He can say any lie that pops into his head and no one cares. I see someone is spreading lies about Herman Cain. If they actually had proof of wrong doing, they would have ran, at the speed of light, to the media for the money they could get from Obama’s scum merchants. So instead, They just spread the lies that the media already made up. Content to think the worse of everyone. Whatever is necessary to help fearless leader. How many of you folks are divorced? How many have done things you shouldn’t have? Clinton lie under oath with the cameras running and nobody cared. He could do no wrong. Why do you care now?
Kathteach commented:
WASHINGTON — The woman who was wed for 18 years to Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich said in an interview airing Thursday that her ex-husband asked for an “open marriage” after carrying on a six-year affair with an aide.
Check out the Esquire 2010 interview with the chain smoking Marianne…..
Newt had admitted to a SIX YEAR AFFAIR with one of his employees.
Good Grief. Pray your daughters never bite on a the offerings of such a loser – please.
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re: #145 January 19, 2012 at 5:19 pm burt
posted the following in another thread, might as well repost in here..
yes, the content of ones character is what
counts, not the content of his conquests..
even MLK had affairs.. duh!!
btw, this country went down the wrong road due to one mans lies..
the only time i felt ashamed of my country is when the MSM Reps & Dems
made a 3 ring circus out of Clinton’s LIE.. if only he had told the truth, or
just taken his lust to a motel / hotel down the road or across the street..
anywhere but in “we the people’s” Oval Office.. that is what really hurt
America’s “moral values”, ergo, all of US..
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bg commented:
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what’s news here??
what did Newt LIE about??
Clinton?? Axelrod?? Marianne?? Obama?? Bueller??
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Benson II commented:
I also read a report by a close friend of Gingrich and his Ex that said there was more to the story than just hers and that both played a part in the marriage ending. To wait this long before saying anything smacks of revenge and since Gingrich has never said a bad word about her and probably won’t it leaves him to try to answer questions without blaming her for anything. What she’s saying could be true but since he’s not the same person he was years ago and has proven it in this marriage and in turning to God I consider this irrelevant to my support for Gingrich. I doubt there are many of us who could stand up to a scrutiny of our past lives even if we’ve changed and learned from past mistakes. One thing is for sure she hasn’t forgotten or forgiven even if what’s she’s alleging isn’t completely true. So I ask is it revenge or truthful concern.
Tracy Mullane commented:
Wow, she’s still not over it! Why are bitter comments from the ex wife being taken so seriously?
We need to focus on the important issues. If Newt is elected, that “news” will be a flash in the pan. Our country’s notably great but flawed presidents include Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, and JFK among others. If citizens then had the same type of technology we have today, the country might have been in danger of having had a different history.