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Gingrich on a First Lady Calista — Nancy Reagan + Laura Bush, with a Dash of Jackie Kennedy
ABC Political Punch ^ | 12-2-11 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 12/02/2011 6:29:18 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — In our interview, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich discussed what kind of First Lady his wife Calista might be.

Gingrich is quoted in the new e-book “THE RIGHT FIGHTS BACK,” by Mike Allen and Evan Thomas, saying she would be in the Nancy Reagan mold. So that’s where we started.

What did he mean by that? I asked.

“First of all she is a very strong personality, which Nancy Reagan was,” Gingrich said. “She actually describes herself as being a cross between Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush with just a slight bit of Jackie Kennedy tossed in and I think there is, somewhere swirling in there, the model Calista would like to live up to.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adulteress; aggrandizing; arrogance; boastful; cocky; eatingourown; elitist; haughty; hootowl; insulting; meglomaniacal; napoleanic; newtbashing; nohumility; notourown; presumptive; pride; puffering; puffery; selfassured; unhatchedchickens
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To: fightinJAG
under all the circumstances

what circumstances....Newt has the money, this is a free country, and he decided to spend a few bucks to help the economy

81 posted on 12/02/2011 8:05:07 PM PST by terycarl (lurking, but well informed)
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To: Breto

“dont mean nothing by it but she gives me the creeps..Kinda like the lizard alien creatures”

she remonds me of diana (jane badler) from the original V series. or the blond english lizard in the power stuggle over richard.

HOW THE HELL DO I REMEMBER ALL THAT from 20+ years ago?


82 posted on 12/02/2011 8:05:57 PM PST by bravo whiskey (If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“Unseemly, I say.”

As compared to who is in the White House right now?


83 posted on 12/02/2011 8:06:30 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
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To: Hugin

I don’t think Tiffany’s would accept $45,000 in cash.

But there are a world of ways to pay upfront without paying with cash.


84 posted on 12/02/2011 8:06:30 PM PST by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: TitansAFC

Actually, it is his sister who is the Lesbian, but you brought it up.


85 posted on 12/02/2011 8:08:43 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: riri

“He does seem rather smitten with this Mrs.”

And that’s a good thing. I have no problem with a spouse speaking fondly about their spouse.


86 posted on 12/02/2011 8:08:52 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
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To: napscoordinator

87 posted on 12/02/2011 8:09:59 PM PST by KantianBurke (Where was the Tea Party when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?)
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To: terycarl

Hilariously, some people here on FR made fun of Michelle Obama when she wore a pair of $200 sandals.


88 posted on 12/02/2011 8:12:44 PM PST by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: napscoordinator
All we need is a First Slut. We haven’t had one of those before.....

Actually, that is what they called poor Rachel Jackson, and she died before whe ever got to the White House. It's a sad story. It revolved around Rachel's divorce and whether it was legal before whe married Andrew. Andre said that the critics broke her heart and she died between the elction and the inauguration.

89 posted on 12/02/2011 8:14:34 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Half-sister if I’m remembering correctly.


90 posted on 12/02/2011 8:18:24 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I could try correcting the typos...

Actually, that is what they called poor Rachel Jackson, and she died before she ever got to the White House. It’s a sad story, really. It revolved around Rachel’s divorce and whether it was legal before she married Andy. Andy said that the critics broke her heart and she died between the election and the inauguration.


91 posted on 12/02/2011 8:18:34 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: jacquej
Real women don’t need jewels, or demand them either. Ditto, cruises to Greece.

Yeah, for example Elizabeth Taylor hardly had any jewelry, the poor thing probably wore rhinestones.

92 posted on 12/02/2011 8:25:49 PM PST by terycarl (lurking, but well informed)
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To: terycarl
My criticism comes from her do-as-I-say and not-as-I-do elitist attitude. As a woman, I know how difficult it is to maintain weight. My husband maintains his quite easily with a weight training regime. I have to work my ass off, quite literally, even though I'm nursing baby number two. Yes there are such things as mirrors, and Moochelle needs to look at one before she starts preaching arugula and peas.
93 posted on 12/02/2011 8:33:22 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Is it me or is Newt one of the most conceited politicians out there?


94 posted on 12/02/2011 8:33:38 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: RegulatorCountry
just a tad?

Did they make these in TAD sizes?


95 posted on 12/02/2011 8:39:21 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Gingrich said. “She actually describes herself as being a cross between Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush with just a slight bit of Jackie Kennedy tossed in and I think there is, somewhere swirling in there, the model Calista would like to live up to.”

What a bullsh!t artist.

96 posted on 12/02/2011 8:44:54 PM PST by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: bravo whiskey

More like a cross between a V, Ayn Rand, and a Stepford wife.

If I were Newt, I’d stay away from the Jacqueline Kennedy comparisons with the recent tape recordings of Jacqueline’s vapid empty head - “Oh, I get all my opinions from Jack.”

Then again, maybe it does apply. Newt has so many opinions that just one wife couldn’t hold them all.

I’m not usually this petty, but I have a problem with self-aggrandizement.


97 posted on 12/02/2011 8:49:53 PM PST by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush and Jackie Kennedy have class.

The proposed First Lady Callista slept with a married man, very trashy.


98 posted on 12/02/2011 8:55:46 PM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: TitansAFC

They (some), are a disgusting and ignorant lot. When I read their tripe, I am reminded of how Cain doesn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell of winning any election.

If Cain pulls out tomorrow, it will please me for several reasons that I won’t bother to list them, I’m lazy. Then, when I think of these talking armpits, I will smile, because I will know they have failed and they are suffering.

If Cain chooses to stay in the race, all it will do is put off the inevitable, because he lost any chance to win long before his Bimbo eruptions.

These people are smelly trash....... as well as mentally ill.


99 posted on 12/02/2011 9:11:32 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I am proud of my wife... it seems that you are not of yours.


100 posted on 12/02/2011 9:16:27 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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