If this is true -and I have no reason to believe it isn’t- it changes my perception about Gingrich considerably. He’s still got a lot of baggage though.
You mean all this time, the media has been lying?
I’m shocked. Shocked!
But I though Newtie divorced his wife on her deathbed?
NOW she’s correcting it? After all this time? How odd.
She was an adult teacher and molested newt (no matter how willingly).
Newt ever since has been led through life by his “newt.”. He is a risk, a national security risk. He can’t resist a snapping thong panty.
Honestly and I live in Atlanta, most people think Newt’s wife had cancer and that he was trying to get her to sign divorce papers on her deathbed so to speak. Thats the story we always heard even down here. I thought the woman was dead myself.
I don’t give a crap about Newt’s personal life.
He’s a phony pseudo-conservative. That’s what I care about.
Good for her to help clarify the media’s lies.
Ok, i always heard that when his wife was dying of cancer, he dumped her. This sure is a different story. If it was as the urban legend says, doubt his kids would defend him.
Freaking leftists,,,
I utterly enjoyed his US history lecture series.
But i am very unforgiving about his support of Global warming, and sitting on that sofa with Pelosi.
That was the signature effort of the forces trying to destroy America. And he helped.
The truth of this matter has been public knowledge for years. She's still alive, and she knew of the divorce before she entered the hospital. However, the truth doesn't make as good a story as "he divorced her on her death bed."
Having said that, I still won't support him for President. He has too many things against him. But that's a matter for another time.
Finally the truth is told.
Thanks for posting this.
He’s still a political disaster.
One of the basic differences between the Democrats and Republicans is that conservative core values are not dependent on vagaries of political fashion nor political expediency nor pandering to the electorate. In recent years Mr Newt has acted much more like the former than the latter.
I don’t care about this baggage.
I care about the picture of him and the old bag on a couch in front of the capital.
This is incredible. Newt let this lie stand and be reported incessantly by the Dummies and their fellow travlers in the MSM.
WHY would ANYONE stand by and let this lie fester when a simple phto op of Newt and his x would have shut it down immediately?
I don’t think I know anyone that would sit by and let such a collassal lie go unchallenged. Newt has more problems than this for me however.
I always had serious doubts about that ‘deathbed’ story. That said, Newt is still scuzzy and he had a habit of folding like a cheap-tent at the drop of a hat. I was unyielding in my disgust with Bill Clinton over his behavior, and there’s no way I’m going to give Newt any kind of pass. I’d never give him my vote under any circumstance, even in the wildly unlikely scenario he becomes the GOP nominee.
It would have been better, Jackie, to have corrected this tale a long time ago. There have been a lot of ugly things printed about both of your parents. It was foolish to let this false story linger in the media for so long.
I'm not particularly a Newt fan, but am glad we can put this story to rest.
It could well be that the worst rumors about Newt's conduct are untrue. But what that leaves uncontested doesn't do Newt any credit either.
Newt's become the poster child for a certain kind of unadmirable behavior in politicians. Perhaps that's unfair, but is it wholly unwarranted?
In any case, the damage has been done, and Newt isn't going to be elected president. He ought to concentrate on what he can contribute in other ways.
This was posted sometime ago and it doesn’t change my opinion of Newt on bit. I won’t vote for him.