Newt Gingrich's Skeletons: His Past Wives

Gatun: I agree with everything you say, even though it is quite depressing when you think about it.

As far as decent men to lead this country, I nominate Congressman Paul Ryan -- smart, fiscally conservative, married, father of three, has a plan to get us out of debt, and does not want to be President. Did I mention he's good looking too? I believe that he has been threatened and he's concerned for his children.

I think Rick Santorum is another one -- but he has been tarnished by losiing the PA election to that liar, Casey.

I also love Eric Cantor, but I know nothing about his personal life. So, that leaves us to looking for decent women -- Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann both come to mind, and you can see what the lamestream media have done to them!

Pray.

Paul Ryan

My sister worked for a one term senator after the 1994 elections. She came back very jaded about “conservative” leaders.

The GOP knew about Newt and his women (there were more mistresses), and often they openly mocked those who elected them in parties (one of my sister’s jobs was setting up functions).

You don’t get to that level being a decent person. You get there by being a snake. I vote, but I do so realizing that the guy I voting for is lying to me and using me. I only hope that I can use him to advance causes I care about a little bit.

Newt proposed to Marianne (she was 28, he 36) in 1980 while his first wife, Jackie, was in the hospital recovering from treatments for uterine cancer. He hadn't yet even asked her for a divorce. Newt met Jackie in high school. She was his geometry teacher. He was sixteen, she was 25. When he left, Jackie was nearly destitute. Jackie, the Esquire story reports, "had to get a court order just to pay her utility bills."

Looks like Newt couldn't keep it in his pants. He was 16 years old when he met his teacher, only to leave her while she was recovering from cancer, and delivered his divorce papers while she was at the hospital. In the meantime, he was hot after Marianne (who was younger than him), only to drop her years later for someone younger than her. What a real sweetheart.

He compared his wives to cars. He obviously sees women as objects for his pleasure, a sexual thing to use and discard whenever he grows bored.

I don't care what he does with his life, but to preach about morals and social codes with his history of extramarital sex (and God knows what else) is a joke.

Like I said before, Newt couldn't get elected as a night watchman at Macy's.

I lost faith in Newt when he didn't have a peep to say during the whole Clinton/Lewinsky Impeachment debacle.

It was what he had to say in those days that killed him for me---he was saying, to every last House Republican trying to put the brakes on Newtie and the Blowfish's nasty little habit of ramping up budgets that spent even more than Droopy-Drawers Clinton was hoping for, "You guys just don't get the big picture, do you?"

Well, guess what, folks---and you can look it up, too: Every last one of those House Republicans then trying to put the brakes on the ramped-up budgets went home and told their constituents just why they were voting against those budgets . . . and every one of them survived in the 1998 elections.

Those budgets more than anything involving the impeachment were the reasons House Republicans lost some seats in those elections. And that ended up being one of the key reasons why Newt Gingrich was a dead duck as Speaker of the House within days of those elections.

And what did the Republican Party learn from that?

Take another look at the 'Aught decade.

They learned nothing. While spending everything they could spend and get away with and, on too many occasions, treating the Constitution as though it came with a sunset clause or an expiration date.

Thus went the Republican Revolution and thus came the Age of Pelosi/Reid/Obama.

(Take another look at the 2006 exit polls. The preponderant answer as to why the Democrats were retaking Congress had to do with spending and with constitutional malfeasance, from which you could conclude reasonably enough that enough people figured that if we're going to live with glandular spending and constitutional malfeasance, we'll be damned if we're gonna take it from the party that props itself up as the party of smaller government and constitutional propriety. Which is probably a fancy way of saying, essentially, "If we want to be done like Democrats, we can't do worse than to let the real thing do us.")

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