Posted on 08/10/2010 10:05:53 AM PDT by American Dream 246
Marianne Gingrich interview with esquire magazine
politicalticker As Newt Gingrich continues to signal his intention to run for president in 2012, his ex-wife says she finds it inconceivable the former Republican House Speaker has any chance of winning the White House.
"There's no way," Marianne Gingrich tells Esquire Magazine in a profile of the ex-Republican leader posted on the magazine's website Tuesday. "He could have been president. But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don't like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new ... you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way."
But Marianne, who was married to Gingrich from 1981-1999, says her former husband might just have the right mentality to launch a White House bid, even if victory is far-fetched.
"He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don't have to be connected," she tells the magazine. "If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president."
Marianne also says her former husband is a self-conscious man who "grew up poor and always wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself.""He has to be historic to justify his life," she tells the magazine
...A women Scorned...
Yes! Thank you Mrs. Ex. I wonder if the other Ex’s will make statements too. He does like to collect Ex Wives doesn’t he. He is anti-family values if you ask me.
"Mrs. Gingrich #2 was dumped after her husband had carried on an extramarital affair with a fetching, blond congressional staffer named Callista Bisek, who went on to become the present Mrs. Gingrich #3. This Family Values paradigm was complicated by the fact that whilst Mr. Gingrich was filibustering Ms. Bisek over the Speaker’s desk, he was simultaneously leading the impeachment charge against a naughty president of the United States....The much-married Newt Gingrich converts to Catholicism this weekend—and I’d pay a year’s salary to have been a bug on the wall during his religious instruction."Related threads:
-- Christopher Buckley, from the thread The Audacity of Poping
On Gingrich: A legacy of surrender
On Gingrich: A legacy of surrender
Newt Gingrich on his conversion to Catholicism
Newt Gingrich and the Rise of Catholic Conservatism
The Audacity of Poping
Christopher Buckley Mocks Church (500 word snicker about Newt Gingrich becoming a Catholic)
Christopher Buckley on Newt Gingrich’s Catholic conversion
I think she is a bot biased, However I wouldnt vote for Newt unless he was the last chance.
Seems to be an honest, fair and realistic assessment of Newt.
She may be right.
That being said, I always likes Newt. I think he is one of the only people on our team who was the right combination of ideas and inspiration.
But....I think he has blown it.
She’s right, ... but boy, is she mad!
He just can’t keep his pants zipped up, keeps losing wives...
“I predict future happiness for Americans
if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson
We simply do not need any more tired, old, white men with records of past "mis-deeds" whose time has long since expired claiming that they should be president.
If this failure is the best the rinos can do, then they are in far worse shape than most of us suspected.
Exactly who does this guy think is his "base"???
Blacks? Latinos? Asians? Women? Conservatives? Libs? Muslims?
Heck, most wouldn't go to a book signing by him if he were buying the books!!
Newt....GO AWAY!
He wouldn't get the nomination.
One other FReeper said on a recent thread — and I agree — that Newt’s presence in the GOP pack will spur his opponents to bring their “A” game. Newt carries a LOT of baggage, but is undeniably whip-smart, and his fellow Republican candidates will benefit in the long run.
You know, your sins find you out.
I’ve always liked Newt. I don’t always agree with him, but he is one of the few politicians in DC to have ideas, not just business as usual.
I also like that he understands American philosophy, something that people don’t nowadays, and IMHO is what is to blame for the slide to the left in the country.
From Columbiana Ohio, a swing county in the ultimate swing state.
Geography is destiny. Newt is doomed.
“I think she is a bit biased, However I wouldn’t vote for Newt unless he was the last chance.”
I had the same thought. Maybe Huckabee would be last.
Newt is a creep. I like Sean Hannity as a person but he sucks up to idiots and RINOs like Newt. Sean also gets these black callers on his show that ramble on about nonsense.
. . . probably knows the scorner’s character better than we do.
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