Newt is the latest GOP Icarus. What would you do to destroy Newt’s election chances?
Cain was obvious because Democrats know that black men are sex maniacs and cannot look at a woman without wanting to mount her.
What do you do to a Washington insider who divorced his wife as she was in a hospital bed with cancer and who switches sides as the wind blows? Plus he’s an egghead and egomaniac who’s own party asked him to leave when he was Speaker.
In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne Ginther. In 1984, Battley told the Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Battley, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce.
Gingrich has disputed that account. In 2011, their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay, and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce.