Posted on 11/10/2011 11:03:27 AM PST by radioone
Gingrich did that yesterday:
That is probably the dumbest single thing Ive done in recent years, Gingrich, a former House Speaker, said Tuesday on Fox News, calling the ad inexplicable.
It never ceases to grind me that so many Establishment Republican types will sit there and take it when a so-called news media person tries to make them look stupid. They should all be firing right back at them like that. Make them look like the fools that they are. They aren’t even “news” people, they’re celebrities, and they’re little more informed than a celebrity.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Outstanding. Can’t have a guy in there that can’t admit when he’s wrong. To many opportunities as President to be wrong. Being wrong is inevitable.
One of the big things about Kennedy I admired was owning up to the Cuban Missile Crisis as being his fault. When he and Kruschev first met, Kruschev owned him completely, and as a result Kruschev came away thinking he could continue to do so.
What did he do to his wife?
Tried to finalize a divorce from his first wife while she was in a hospital bed for cancer surgery. Widely reported and confirmed by the wife.
We have a long way to go.....but that’s the way I’m leaning now.
We're in the same boat.
Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26.[114][115] In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne Ginther.[116][117] In 1984, Battley told the Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Battley, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce.[118] Gingrich has disputed that account.[91] In 2011, their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay (which was for the removal of a benign tumor, not cancer), and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce.[119] Gingrich has two daughters from his first marriage. Kathy Gingrich Lubbers is president of Gingrich Communications,[120] and Jackie Gingrich Cushman is an author, conservative columnist, and political commentator[121] whose books include 5 Principles for a Successful Life, co-authored with Newt Gingrich.[122]
Nothing is listed in the Wiki information about how his first wife, his geometry teacher, was in a relationship with him while he was in high school. Not his fault but in todays world it would be scandal.
Your point?
Way to go, Newt! It’s going to be your nomination IMO. Don’t screw it up...
Gingrich has responded to the Global Warming issue. You can see it here http://sheya.com/2011/11/08/newt-gingrich-on-special-report-center-seat/
He was on Fox Special Report in the center seat. Clearly said he was wrong.
Widely reported but inaccurate according to his daughter. Jackie Gingrich Cushman posted a letter to set the record straight. You can see it here: http://www.creators.com/conservative/jackie-gingrich-cushman/setting-the-record-straight.html
Visit was for the 2 girls to visit their mom.
Wife requested the divorce.
Wife was in for surgery to remove a benign tumor, there was no cancer.
If you don’t like him fine, but don’t like him for what he has done, not what was reported he did.
She could also be protecting her Dad, hardly convincing.
Wrong on that count too, acctually I’m leaning toward Gingrich.
Thanks radioone.
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