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Posted on 01/18/2012 6:01:15 PM PST by Qbert
You know who this benefits?
Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview. Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEWS cameras, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.She spoke to ABCNEWS reporter Brian Ross for two hours. Her explosive revelations are set to rock the campaign. But now a “civil war” has erupted inside of the network, an insider claims, on exactly when the confession will air!
Just a little more late intrigue for a race that’s already in flux from Newt’s post-debate surge, Palin’s quasi-endorsement, Santorum’s possible victory in Iowa (the official results will be announced tomorrow morning), Perry’s uncertain status vis-a-vis calls for him to drop out, and yet another debate tomorrow night. Drudge says the interview’s tentatively set to air Monday, after the vote in South Carolina, but reporters from Politico and the NYT are hearing it’ll air … tomorrow, presumably before the debate. I’m surprised his ex didn’t insist that it be broadcast ASAP. If she’s coming clean now after years of silence, just as he’s readying his last stand against Romney, she’s obviously doing it to try to take him out. If you were her, wouldn’t you want it to drop before the primary?
Actually, she hasn’t been completely silent. Go read the Esquire piece from 2010 that everyone will be murmuring about until this thing finally airs. Quote:
Back in the 1990s, she told a reporter she could end her husband’s career with a single interview. She held her tongue all through the affair and the divorce and even through the annulment Gingrich requested from the Catholic Church two years later, trying to erase their shared past. Now she sits quietly for a moment, ignoring her eggs, trying to decide how far she wants to go.
Here’s the most sensational bit, after she found out about Gingrich’s new mistress:
She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed?She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. “‘I can’t handle a Jaguar right now.’ He said that many times. ‘All I want is a Chevrolet.’”
He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
He’d just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he’d given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.
The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, “How do you give that speech and do what you’re doing?”
“It doesn’t matter what I do,” he answered. “People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.”
If her interview runs along those lines — Gingrichian egomania and hypocrisy but nothing criminal or lurid — I don’t know how much it’ll change things. You never know what information voters have and haven’t fully assimilated about a candidate, but Newt’s “values” problems have been public knowledge long enough that I take it they’re already mostly priced into his stock. He’s going to say she’s a disgruntled ex who’s making things up and, in any case, that he’s found redemption in his faith since the divorce. Unless she’s got a bombshell she’s ready to drop, how many voters thinking of voting for him at this point will really think twice?
Exit question: If the interview does air tomorrow, how hard will Santorum and Romney go after him at the debate over it? Santorum’s desperate to have social conservatives unite behind him, but this is an awfully messy attack to try with the, er, “Chevrolet” sitting in the audience in front of him.
This smells to high heaven...
Doesn’t matter though... It will have it’s intended effect. More news cycles of negative stuff...
Except against Mitt
Hell hath no fury like..... you know the rest. Would anyone expect her to say sweet and charming things about Newt? It is what it is.
How ironic would it be if the last man standing is indeed Rick Perry? Fine with me, of course, though I like Newt.
Gee I wonder whose campaign is pushing this?
Can there be ANY doubt that the MSM wants Romney to be the nominee? I wonder why. On second thought, I don’t.
“Chevrolet” is so American.
I want to see Obama’s college admission records, transcripts, Harvard Review writings, and find out how sealed divorce records from his first Senate opponent became public. I also want his employment records from his ACORN days.
I don’t know. If she comes across as a bitter ex-wife, it could do more to damage her than Newt.
Remind me again how much play there was in the MSM about Larry Sinclair.
So they’ll do anything to make sure that Milt faces Obama? What does that tell us? Watergate, you’ll remember, was part of an operation to make sure that President Nixon faced the weakest candidate possible, which turned out to be Senator George McGovern.
Hell hath no fury. . .
and sleazy old Newt has it coming. We all knew that, so no surprise.
Too bad the future of the country is at stake. Otherwise, this could be quite entertaining.
From another thread:
The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich (1995: Marianne Promised To "Undermine Everything" For Newt)
"........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.".........
This is the high school teacher that married her student (Newt) as soon as he graduated high school?
When you put it in that context, it’s not surprising the marriage had problems and they eventually divorced.
Obama studied the Koran but yet Romney’s Mormonism is an issue. Clinton had sexual relations in the oval office but women from decades ago who alleged ‘misconduct’ brought down Cain. Obama thinks we have 57 states but Palin couldn’t be VP because she could see Russia from ALASKA. GO FIGURE. The only perfect conservative walked on water AND HE IS NOT RUNNING.
A witch! Burn her!
I would hope that most women would know that she fooled around with him while he was still married and she was just getting her fair share of karma. I’ve heard many women say it, IF he’ll cheat with you . . . he will cheat on you. Yes, I’m a woman. I don’t care about his affairs, he has asked for forgiveness from God and that is between them. I’m looking for a leader in this election, not a husband . . . while I’d rather he didn’t have a past . . . it is what it is and considering Washington it isn’t like nobody else ever did it too.
If they succeed in destroying anyone but Romney they will insure Sarah’s entry into the race.
Nothing she could say will overshadow the “rumors” about “Bath-House Barry” Soetoro’s “down-low” antics.
As a matter of fact, a skirt-chaser seems pretty damned boring compared to a Homo-potus.
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