If Newt Gingrich expects to run for president in 2012, let alone win, he better think again. Seems his ex-wife Marianne has a little score to settle, and has gone public in a scathing magazine interview about her former hubby's kinky past, especially as it relates to marriage. Thanks to Mrs. #2, we've now confirmed what most of us have known all along: that when it comes to family-values, Gingrich, like most Republicans, believes there's two sets...one for him and one for everyone else.
So what's in Newt's closet? Well, Marianne unloaded her bombshells in ESQUIRE's September profile of the former House Speaker. Here's some of the juiciest revelations:
We surely remember how these skeevy hypocrites like Gingrich crucified Bill Clinton back in the 90's over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. He became just the second sitting president in United States history to be impeached. Yet one by one these witch-hunting hypocrites including Gingrich, Bob Barr, Henry Hyde, Robert Livingston, Helen Chenoweth, Dan Burton, John Ensign, Larry Craig and others were all subsequently embroiled in their own humiliating public sex scandals. These philandering phonies went ahead with their Clintoncide despite knowing they couldn't keep their own pants on. What unmitigated gall.
I cannot tell you how downright giddy I am to see Gingrich's marital indiscretions broadcast for the entire world to see in all their disgusting, shameful, specious glory. No one deserves to be metaphorically stoned in public with his integrity and reputation dragged through the mud more than the smug, duplicitous, self-aggrandizing phony Gingrich.
As Stephen Colbert noted about Gingrich Wednesday night, "He's so morally upright he's only had sex after he was married, just not always to the woman he was married to."
It's hard to image Gingrich setting sail next year for a run at the White House. As I've written here on this blog years ago, his serial philandering will keep him from ever sitting behind the Oval Office desk. But if he does decide to defy conventional wisdom and run anyway, it'll be a lot of fun to watch him implode.
When will these glass-house-dwellin' Republicans finally learn not to throw stones...
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Back to the water, Mr. Gingrich. Surely, you’ll find what you’re looking for there.
We all judge others. We also have moral standards and ideal to which we fail to live up. Go ahead and make the case for Gingrich's hypocrisy, but don't pretend in the process that you are something you are not.
Another example: My guess is that you would say that you care for others, yet you can be "giddy" about another's misfortune?
We all judge others. I have a problem with Gingrich's stance on family and his actions that demonstrate something else completely. The way I know this is because I am judging him. And you judge him, too, as well as other with whom you disagree.
As for being "giddy" about Newt's downfall, all good things come to those who deserve them...
I'm not confused. My point is that you judge everyone, even those not "worthy of judgment" if only to make judgment that they are not "worthy of judgment."
And a far as "all good things come to those who deserve them" I guess Mother Theresa just never could get over the hump...
Newt is a slime-ball with delusions of grandeur. i'd be happy to see him make a last, suicidal run for the white house on behalf of those ignorant enough to buy into his crockery.
the republicans could clean house this November but i don't think they have the brains to pull it off.
As far as the rest of your comment, I respectfully disagree. I think Newt (like many others) has some great ideas of how to keep the country on a path that honors the constitution and provides hope for the future. Evidently, Newt has more "grandeur" than you or I because (my assumption) we have never risen to one of the highest offices in our country.
Just a little turning back of time will do. And then maybe the media and the public will have learnt their lesson.
Just Sayin.