Jackie Gingrich Cushman: Setting the Record Straight (about my dad's first marriage)

Creators ^ | May 13, 2011 | Jackie Gingrich Cushman

[Hot Tabasco]

I thought the ‘filed for divorce while his dying wife was in the hospital’ version was true.

I did too.......

[jpsb]

I am willing to bet that Newt knows what the “right of return means” and knows China has had nukes since 1965. And I'll bet Newt can name a better fed chair then Mr Bubble Greenspan. I also doubt Newt wants to fry Mexicans on an electric border fence topped with barbed wire.

[chooseascreennamepat]

I have always bought into the story that he walked in, told her he wanted a divorce and left. This only to have her die, alone, a horrible, painful death a few short days later. That was the story as presented by the MSM IIRC and not one that I recall, said otherwise.

[MrEdd]

Ah, the first of the “not guilty” crowd shows up.
Because it’s OK to have sex with your students if they like it.

I reject the perversion you embrace.

[ohioWfan]

Nice. Glad to see Newt's daughter correcting the record for those who didn't know.

He still has too many other 'issues' for me, but the truth is extremely important in making the right choice of a candidate. Especially now.

[hinckley buzzard]

So this was his first wife, Jackie, not his second. Good to keep the facts straight. She didn't have cancer, she initiated the divorce not him, they had already begun the process when the hospital visit occurred. He didn't "serve her divorce papers while she was dying."

A lot of freepers owe Gingrich an apology for perpetuating these lies, and should eat some crow to go with the media spew they sucked down along the way.

[Hot Tabasco]

He still cheated on her, which is what was the case.

Sorry but that's not the case. The "Case" is the fact that the MSM fraudulently and maliciously mischaracterized Newt as serving divorce papers on his wife while she was dying in a hospital......That has now been proven to be a lie.

[MrEdd]

Don't leave out collaborator with Pelosi.

Though I must in all.fairness defend Newt on this, he does have lots of warts.

Less egregious warts than Mitt or Rick, but pretty bad warts none the less.

[dools0007world]

Doesn’t change the fact that Gingrich is a serial womanizer. Who’s gonna guarantee me he won’t stray again as president and be controlled by our enemies?

Nice story, but it does not earn Gingrich a pass. Bad behavior should be sanctioned.

[hinckley buzzard]

And a whole lot of freepers were happy to spread the slander right here. I have never heard or read this lie anywhere else but FR.

Blame it on the media because someone started it, but certain people here kept it going without ever bothering to check facts.

Big lesson about trusting the whorehouse media, especially when they spew something that agrees with your preconceptions.

[katiedidit1]

Doesn’t change the fact that Newt played a major role in obtaining the first balanced budget in this country since 1969 when he was speaker. Doesn’t change the fact that Rainbow Coaliton backed Cain...doesnt change the fact that Cain donated money to DEMOCRATS AFTER he joined the GOP. Not to mention his take on Greenspan...I am watching the debates tonight with bells on...

[DJ MacWoW]

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[BenKenobi]

“That she eventually married her boy toy does not make this okay.”

So you’re blaming her for him cheating on her when she was sick? This is rich.

“It was a pretty fair bet from the get go that this marriage could not last, but there were kids in the deal and no unmessy solution.”

And why, is this the case? I don’t see why it could not have worked out well, had Newt been devoted to her as her husband. He was not, and the marriage broke down.

I see nothing there that would have encouraged me to give him an annulment. He’s still married to wife number 1, and the fact that he’s on wife number 3 doesn’t change this.

[BenKenobi]

“Sorry but that’s not the case. The “Case” is the fact that the MSM fraudulently and maliciously mischaracterized Newt as serving divorce papers on his wife while she was dying in a hospital......That has now been proven to be a lie.”

I didn’t argue this. I argued that he cheated on his wife, which is the real moral failing. I could care less whether he or her served papers, but cheating on your sick wife is wrong.

Even if you are Newt.

[Leto]

Because if Cain stumbles it will be Mitt and Newt, Mitt is unacceptable, Newt is better than Obama/Mitt.

[Hattie]

Well a couple of hugh details in the daughter’s version: 1) Newt’s first wife is alive. 2) Newt’s first wife is the one who filed for divorce. Those need wider exposure.

Are you serious? He was having an affair. Is she supposed to just sit by and not file to save her own self respect? Trust me, who files first is not the way to look at who destroyed the marriage or made saving the marriage impossible.

[org.whodat]

LOL, you know, I had no ideal newt was messing around with his high school teacher until today. He married her, got a marriage deferment, and got all he wanted and a free education that she worked and paid for. That Newt is one slick, operator. She was seven years older than he. And I embrace nothing, if you look around you will find I have said Newt has to much baggage to be president, but he would be a lot better than the Delaware dunce.

[Hot Tabasco]

A lot of freepers owe Gingrich an apology for perpetuating these lies,

I do owe Newt an apology for believing all that death bed trash that came out years ago..........

I'm sorry Mr. Gingrich.........,.

[knarf]

Hmmmm ... it appears to be about a 20 year old pic ...

WHAT were you thinkin', Newt ?

[Hot Tabasco]

I argued that he cheated on his wife, which is the real moral failing. I could care less whether he or her served papers, but cheating on your sick wife is wrong.

Then you're on the wrong thread dude.......that's called "thread hijacking" and is frowned upon.......

Start another thread called "Newt Cheated on His Wife"............