The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich (1995: Marianne Promised To "Undermine Everything" For Newt)

PBS.org ^ | September, 1995 | Gail Sheehy

[TitansAFC]

........But his greatest presidential stumbling block may be right under his nose. At home, Newt's second wife, Marianne Ginther Gingrich, tells me she doesn't see herself in the First Lady's job. "Watching Hillary has just been a horrible experience," commiserates Marianne. "Hillary sticking her neck out is not working."

What happens if Newt runs?, I ask.

"He can't do it without me," she replies. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy" --she giggles at her naughtiness. "I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything...I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be."

Why not?

"Right now, the presidency is not a single person. It's not so much what he'd be doing. It's what I'd be doing.".........

[TexasFreeper2009]

I am hearing rumors that the interview contains no new information and that this is just a ploy by the media to try and sink Gingrich and stop his momentum before Saturday with the worry of what “mihgt” be in it.

[muawiyah]

Wonder what Dobson has to say about Mitch Daniel's wife?

Does Dr. Dobson think her behavior makes Mitch unworthy?

Bet he does!

[notaliberal]

Let’s see....FDR; JFK; RfK; Lyndon Johnson; Bill Clinton....Did I miss anybody Oh yeah! the terminator; Anthony Weiner

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I thought he’s been pimping for Paul. Linking Daily Paul and giving Alex Jones and PrisonPlanet permalinks were new lows for Matt.

[muawiyah]

Sounds like she never had any intention of being helpful to her husband.

[Allon]

Uh, that was back in 1995.

So was Bain, but that's not stopping anyone.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Dobson spoke ill of Callista Gingrich. Said something to the effect of, we can’t have an eight-year mistress in the White House.

He didn’t get the telegram that standards for White House residency have been thoroughly obliterated. Callista would be about 200 steps up from where we are now.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Gingrich is no victim—he’s a perpetrator. He brought this on himself.

[American Constitutionalist]

Jim Robinson ? ... may I ask you this question ?
How come ? winning is more preferred over morals now ?
How come ? ( forget that Bill Clinton is a Liberal Democrat for a minute here ) ... how come Bill Clinton is condemned for his infidelity around here, but, Newt is given a free pass ? how come Newt's affairs are accepted ? but someone like John Edwards is condemned ? .. this is a legitimate question that needs to be asked...
The hypocrisy is rich and thick around here...
Suppose any other GOP presidential candidate were found to have had a affair ? how would the Newt supporters threat that person ? would they be condemned ? or given a free pass that Newt is getting ?

[familyop]

Was the following posted by Marianne Gingrich? [From a search. I don’t like the Daily Kos, of all things.]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/30/1050139/-Marianne-Gingrichs-take

[Jedidah]

Well, yes. And isn’t that truly sad?

[muawiyah]

The rumor was, of course, that when Peter Jennings became anchor at ABC he demanded that all the staff people he came into contact perform sex acts like animals in front of him.

Another rumor is that it didn't get any better after he died.

The third rumor was that no one at ABC thought such behavior or demands were at all strange and never complained about it.

So these are the people who've done some sort of interview with one of his ex-wives about Newt Gingrich?

There they are face to face with raw, uninhibited, real human heterosexual inclination.................

No doubt they didn't understand how to handle it. Bet she didn't either.

[Sarah Barracuda]

This is all about the media and the GOP establishment ensuring that Romney gets the nomination. They want Romney to be the nominee so badly..what they are TOO stupid to realize is that Democrats want Romney to be the nominee too, because they know that Romney would lose to Obama. For God’s sake Dems voted for Romney in the NH primary!! This smells to high heaven of Romneys people doing this. They did the same thing to Sarah Palin, they are doing the same crap to Gingrich. Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace, I can pretty much guarantee those two have something to do with this. This woman has been paid off for sure. She is an ex-wife, no one gets divorced on good terms, otherwise they wouldn’t be getting divorced. She will spew the usual ex wife crap and the only ones that will give a damn will be the ones that sit and watch the Kardashians all day

[DJ MacWoW]

You addressed Jim Robinson in Post 50 but neglected to ping him. Oversight or cowardice?

[Red Steel]

A perpetrator of what granny?

[NoPrisoners]

The hypocrisy is rich and thick around here...

Since Newt has asked the Lord for forgiveness, there is no hypocrisy in us forgiving him as well.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

The way he treats his wives and his wedding vows. It is ridiculous to believe he is a victim of his wives. He was the cheater.

[muawiyah]

I can only suppose the Emperor Justinian married his mistress Theodora (who may well have been a prostitute earlier in her life) and the gossips tongues clucked!

[American Constitutionalist]

Should not any other person who has been caught or confessed to infidelity be forgiven then ?