Do You Think Newt Gingrich Has an "Open Marriage" With Callista Gingrich?

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The most enigmatic quote from the second wife:

She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich.

"And I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do,'" Marianne Gingrich told ABC News. "He wanted an open marriage and I refused."

Marianne described her "shock" at Gingrich's behavior, including how she says she learned he conducted his affair with Callista "in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington."

"He always called me at night," she recalled, "and always ended with 'I love you.' Well, she was listening."

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-gingrich-lacks-moral-character-president-wife/story?id=15392899#.Txjbj4FnSuI

So what DOES he do that Callista doesn't care about him doing? Or, perhaps more aptly, WHO does he do that Callista doesn't care about?

Can you say, "Monica Lewinsky: Republican Edition"?

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/182731/march-12-2007/newt-gingrich-s-extramarital-affair

Ron Paul was right about Newt's SERIAL HYPOCRISY...

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So I'm not allowed to criticize Romney's membership in a heretical cult but you go around attacking his personal life.

How many millions did Gingrich waste on the Starr Report again? While he's lambasting Clinton, he's banging interns behind his wife's back and then when he gets caught he says, "Oh, hey, how about an open marriage?" And then when his second wife says no, he dumps her for a third wife he was banging behind the second wife's back? Was the third wife fine with the "open marriage" deal, and that made the difference? And who knows who else he was having sex with?

Give me a break. This guy is a total scumbag, and who knows what kind of skeletons are still hidden away and just waiting to come out as soon as he gets the nomination. Personally, I feel like there's a STRONG possibility of him having a Thomas Eagleton-style history if you know where I am going, especially when you consider his family history and unstable personal life (three wives? Need I say more?). And I believe that will DEFINITELY come out if he gets the nomination. You think Mitt's tax return is bad, just imagine having Thomas Eagleton on the top of your ticket. Obama will thank you for handing him 50 states.

I'd go down swinging with Santorum before I'd support Gingrich.

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I welcome your support for Obama against Gingrich in the campaign this fall, Politico.

Guaranteed a viable third party candidate will emerge if Gingrich is the GOP nominee. And Paul will probably run, too. I'd support one of those two over Gingrich. I cannot support Obama again.

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Doesn't this belong in the mega-thread?

It's a poll, so no-go. Yes, I found a loophole, but I promise not to abuse it

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WOW. Apparently this is from a story that appeared in Vanity Fair. Apparently the guy was taking care of Gingrich's daughters, Jackie Sue and Kathy, and this unfolded with his children right around the corner? DISGUSTING!

Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/vanityfair1.html

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Maybe David Vitter gave Newt some tips on "diaper" erotica? I wonder if Newt ever joined in the prostitution circuit with Vitter? Or maybe he got his tips from John Ensign? Perhaps some bathroom etiquette from Larry Craig?

Did I hear something about the GOP being the party of values? Good luck with that if you hand the nomination to Newt Gingrich. Instead of pushing away scumbags, apparently the base embraces them again while they simultaneously run anti-capitalist ads that would make Obama blush.

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This thread is disgusting. The personal relationships and sexual proclivities of a candidate are completely irrelevant to how well they would do their job as president. Only in America, our culture so strangled by puritan prudery, do we care about this nonsensical hearsay.

I would not do this to any other candidate. Indeed, I said pretty much nothing about the accusations against Cain. However, Gingrich deserves this for what he did to Bill Clinton with regards to Monica Lewinsky. He wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars on that witch hunt while he, himself, was having sex with interns behind his second wife's back (At least Hillary Clinton probably agreed to Bill's proclivities; Gingrich was having sex behind his second wife's back and telling her that he loved her with his mistress laying right there, beside him while he spoke on the phone).

The serial hypocrisy is too much. Gingrich deserves all that is coming to him with regards to this issue.

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Politico, drop it. Since your candidate is no longer the default nominee, you have nothing better to do than to rehash a man's painful and truly indefinsible past.

Gingrich will be crushed by Obama if he is the nominee, and the Republican Party will never again be able to use the "values" mantle. Gingrich is down by double-digits right now to Obama, and this was a few days ago, before "open marriage"-gate hit.

Say what you will about Obama, but the man has some class and dignity and is faithful to his wife, unlike Newt Gingrich, the biggest slime-ball I've ever seen in national politics.

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Politico, drop it. Since your candidate is no longer the default nominee, you have nothing better to do than to rehash a man's painful and truly indefinsible past.

Gingrich will be crushed by Obama if he is the nominee, and the Republican Party will never again be able to use the "values" mantle. Gingrich is down by double-digits right now to Obama, and this was a few days ago, before "open marriage"-gate hit.

Dude, since have head-to-head polls mattered this early. Who are we, a few geeks in our underwear in the basements of our parent's houses, to say who will beat Obama and who will not? Ultimately the American people will decide.

Your personal hatred of Newt Gingrich is appalling. Don't suppose who is electible and who is not

Ron Paul has already created the ad for Obama that would completely destroy Gingrich this fall (It was incredibly effective in Iowa; even more powerful than the Willie Horton ads):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdqGKA782A

And this doesn't even deal with his "open marriages," something about 3% of females in the nation support, I bet. I mean, do you really think Gingrich is going to win more than a handful of states if he's only getting 35-40% of the female vote?

Your support, anybody's support, for Gingrich is truly inexplicable. Santorum I can understand. Paul I can understand. Romney I can understand. But Gingrich? Seriously?

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This thread is disgusting. The personal relationships and sexual proclivities of a candidate are completely irrelevant to how well they would do their job as president. Only in America, our culture so strangled by puritan prudery, do we care about this nonsensical hearsay.

I would not do this to any other candidate. Indeed, I said pretty much nothing about the accusations against Cain. However, Gingrich deserves this for what he did to Bill Clinton with regards to Monica Lewinsky. He wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars on that witch hunt while he, himself, was having sex with interns behind his second wife's back (At least Hillary Clinton probably agreed to Bill's proclivities; Gingrich was having sex behind his second wife's back and telling her that he loved her with his mistress laying right there, beside him while he spoke on the phone).

The serial hypocrisy is too much. Gingrich deserves all that is coming to him with regards to this issue.

1) You ignored my question. Since when do poll's this early have ever been reflective of the country's mood by November.

I cannot think of a single nominee who beat an incumbent after posting numbers in the 30s in the middle of January of the election year. Can you? Even Walter Mondale was competitive at this point in the cycle in 1984...
 

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Anybody who has been cheated on can understand where she is coming from with regards to wanting to show the world what type of person he is. He's unfit for office. Anybody who would behave this way is not fit for office. At least Jackie and Lady Bird knew what was going on and implicitly agreed to it. You do not have that here. She wants to show that to the world. I salute her.

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He wasted MILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS for political points, and the whole thing backfired in the 1998 midterms. That's why he got booted.

But, oh boy, I sure was glad that Newt was taking care of us in Washington all of those years. He's just done so much with his "Newt Action," and he's a real role model that children can look up to.

The ultimate: Gingrich supports his own "open marriages" but opposes his poor sister's "gay marriage." What a messed up family he must have...

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The new check-list for nominating the Republican candidate for president as per the above Newt supproters:

[X] Divorced first wife while she was battling cancer (and beating John Edwards by decades!)
[X] Asked second wife for an "open marriage" after getting caught cheating
[X] Marries third wife who is younger than his own children

Sounds like a real winner to me, folks!

My only question: Why don't we just dig up Nixon's corpse to be his running mate?

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The ultimate fact is that we don't know what really happened between Newt and his former wife. I could believe either side of the story, it's not like Newt can admit the story is true and win with this GOP base.

But in the end, who gives a s***? What impact will it have on his capacity to do the job... he has FAR bigger problems in his politics and what he's advocating beyond what may have happened in his relationship years ago.

If he can't even be trusted by his significant other, how can anybody trust him?

And it's not like he's only divorced once, and the ex-wife is just out for revenge. This is his third marriage. I don't know about you, but I don't know anybody who is put together to a degree capable of being POTUS that has made it to three or more marriages. There is a strong correlation between number of marriages three and above, and disastrous personal issues. He has children with the first ex-wife, so of course she's not going to want to hurt the children by spilling the beans. And his newest wife (I would say last, but you never know with Newt) is younger than his daughters. Who does THAT? It's creepy, and Gingrich has a lot of audacity looking down on his gay sister for her gay marriage (he didn't even acknowledge the wedding).

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Politico, you are getting as bad as SimFan was with his Huntsmantem obsession.

I believe worse... SimFan did not attack other candidates in such an immature way

You know what's really irresponsible? Wasting millions of dollars of taxpayers' money going after Clinton with regards to Monica Lewinsky while you're having sexual relations with YOUR intern behind your own wife's back. At least Hillary and Bill had an agreement, I am sure. Apparently Newt's wife had no idea, let alone any agreement. And not just screwing around behind his wife's back, but doing it with a woman who is YOUNGER than his own daughters. People gave Clinton flak for Monica, but she was seven or eight years older than Chelsea...

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Politico, you are getting as bad as SimFan was with his Huntsmantem obsession.

I believe worse... SimFan did not attack other candidates in such an immature way

You know what's really irresponsible? Wasting millions of dollars of taxpayers' money going after Clinton with regards to Monica Lewinsky while you're having sexual relations with YOUR intern behind your own wife's back. At least Hillary and Bill had an agreement, I am sure. Apparently Newt's wife had no idea, let alone any agreement. And not just screwing around behind his wife's back, but doing it with a woman who is YOUNGER than his own daughters. People gave Clinton flak for Monica, but she was seven or eight years older than Chelsea...

Newt never arguably committed perjury which was what the Clinton investigation was about...it wasn't about whether or not he plowed Lewinsky

It morphed into that after they started asking questions about Lewinsky, which obviously had nothing whatsoever to do with the original investigation into the bad real estate deal in Arkansas (Whitewater). They used Whitewater to get Clinton over his infidelities, and there's no way they ever would have been able to prove anything without DNA. It was, ultimately, a HUGE waste of millions of dollars.

Anyway, I gotta get going.

Your boy is probably going to win South Carolina, but he will wish he had stayed down after Romney and Co. are done with him.

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Can we all agree that Newt Gingrich is a disgusting failure of a human life?

I don't know. The guy is growing on me. He's like this 10-year old child that doesn't really realize that other people have emotions too. And when I compare him to a child, I don't mean to push the 'Gingrich is so childish and irresponsible' line, he just really, really ressembles a child in the way he behaves, even when it just comes down to the way he postures,... I guess he must have some obvious psychological issues, but endearing ones as far as I'm concerned.

I also don't believe Newt Gingrich is a happy man.

Endearing psychological issues until you realize he could possibly become president if everything fell the right away.