At a recent campaign appearance in Florida, presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich stated, “You cannot ask the people of the United States to (give) you the most powerful governmental job in the world… and not have them vet you carefully and thoroughly.”
Shortly thereafter the former House Speaker found himself at the center of a controversy that required some careful and thorough vetting of his own. Courtesy of Brian Ross of ABC’s Nightline, Gingrich’s second ex-wife declared emphatically that Newt wanted her to share him with his latest mistress.
Although it is no secret that Gingrich divorced each of his wives to marry his mistresses, he made a statement about the open marriage allegation that he was “not going to say anything about (ex-wife) Marianne.” He later ignored direct questions from the media regarding the topic. Apparently, the “vetting carefully and thoroughly” does not apply to Newt, only his political opponents.
Gingrich has learned quickly that gaining Republican voter support doesn’t come by bashing his fellow Republicans, but by going after the media whether it is Juan Williams or John King. So, when the opportunity to address the open marriage issue presented itself in CNN’s South Carolina Presidential Debate, Newt deftly used it to rally the base behind him.
When asked “Would you like to take some time to respond to that?” Gingrich replied, “No. But I will. I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that… To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question for a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine…. I am frankly astounded that CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate… I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”
The crowd gave him, or at least his scathing appraisal of the media, a standing ovation.
Gingrich went on to say, “every personal friend I have who knew us in that period says the story was false. We offered several of them to ABC to prove it was false. They weren’t interested, because they would like to attack any Republican.”
But that isn’t true.
ABC’s Brian Ross responded to Newt’s assertion, “That simply is not true.” Gingrich’s campaign only offered his two daughters, who were actually featured in the report. “Nobody else was offered to us at all and our request to talk with the speaker himself was also denied by the campaign.”
This is what you get when you are dealing with megalomaniac who lives in the world of lies and double-standards. He claims that he’s now a grandfather, that he’s found God and that he’s a changed man, but apparently old habits are hard to break.
Now, I will probably be accused of breaking President Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” And, frankly, I hate providing fodder for the Left in the event Newt becomes the GOP nominee. But, I am also compelled to help enlighten my fellow Republicans that this election is one of the biggest of our lifetime… and we cannot afford to make a horrible mistake.
If Republicans send Gingrich to run against Obama, Republicans will lose. If Republicans lose, then Obamacare will grow roots into our society and it will be nearly impossible to reverse it. We will end up with a President that has no regard for the Constitution. And Obama is only one Justice away from tilting the Supreme Court to the left.
Why? It’s not only the fact that the citizens of the United States find Newt utterly objectionable, and they do in poll after poll:
Fox News, 1/12-1/14:
Obama, fav/unfav, 51%/46%, +5
Romney, fav/unfav, 45%/38%, +7
Gingrich, fav/unfav, 27%/56%, -29
CBS/NYT, 1/12-1/17:
Obama, fav/unfav, 38%/45%, -7
Romney, fav/unfav, 21%/35%, -14
Gingrich, fav/unfav, 17%/49%, -32
PPP, 1/13-1/17:
Obama, app/dis, 47%/50%, -3
Romney, fav/unfav, 35%/53%, -18
Gingrich, fav/unfav, 26%/60%, -34
It’s not only the fact that Newt has NEVER seen a RCP polling average that indicated that he could beat Obama since polling began in April 2011 or that he’s currently an average of 11 points behind Obama now:
Poll Obama Gingrich Spread
PPP (D) 49 42 Obama +7
CBS News/NY Times 50 39 Obama +11
Rasmussen Reports 47 38 Obama +9
ABC News/Wash Post 52 40 Obama +12
FOX News 51 37 Obama +14
CNN/Opinion Research 52 43 Obama +9
Reuters/Ipsos 53 38 Obama +15
No. It’s the fact that Newt has a ton of baggage and Obama, an excellent campaigner, will have a billion dollars to make every American voter, whether they care about politics or not, aware that Newt is a walking disaster and not Presidential material.
Imagine Obama and one billion dollars going after all this baggage:
PERSONAL BAGGAGE
Newt has married three times. He married his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, one year after graduating high school. Throughout the 1970s it wasn’t much of a secret that Gingrich was a serial adulterer. One such woman, Anne Manning, admitted to a sexual relationship with Newt during his 1976 campaign. She confessed, “We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, ‘I never slept with her.’” For those that followed the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, sound familiar? In 1980, Newt met Marianne Ginther at a political fundraiser for her father, an Ohio mayor. Ginther knew Gingrich was still married, but that didn’t stop them from having a long term affair. After eighteen years of marriage, Gingrich visited his wife in the hospital, recovering from uterine cancer surgery, so that he could discuss the terms of their divorce. This was a complete surprise to her. In fact, she did not want a divorce and had asked a judge to block the process stating that although “she has adequate and ample grounds for divorce… she does not desire one at this time [and] does not admit that this marriage is irretrievably broken.” Eventually, Newt got his divorce and married Ginther six months later. Approximately eleven years later in 1993, Newt met Callista Bisek. They carried on an affair for six years before Newt would seek yet another divorce. Ginther was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1999 and went back to Ohio to visit her mother for Mother’s Day when she received a call from Newt. He announced that he was engaged in an affair with Callista Bisek. She was twenty-three years younger than Newt and had worked as his congressional aide. Marianne told reporters, “He’d already asked her to marry him before he asked me for a divorce.” Gingrich and Bisek went on to marry in August of 2000.
HEALTHCARE BAGGAGE
Newt took $37 million from health care and industry groups as a longtime supporter of a national health care insurance mandate, the centerpiece of Obamacare. In 1993, Gingrich wanted an individual mandate. During an October 3, 1993 Meet the Press interview, Newt said “I am for people, individuals — exactly like automobile insurance — individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance.”
ENVIROMENTAL BAGGAGE
Newt co-sponsored the Global Warming Prevention Act (H.R. 1078) in 1989, which stated that “the Earth’s atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful fossil fuel use, and the effects of rapid population growth in many regions,” that “global warming imperils human health and well-being” and calls for policies “to reduce world emissions of carbon dioxide by at least 20% from 1988 levels by 2000.” The legislation recognizes that global warming is a “major threat to political stability, international security, and economic prosperity.”
NANCY PELOSI BAGGAGE
Newt co-sponsored H.R. 1078 with Democrat Nancy Pelosi in 1989 that included $60 million a year to the United Nations Population Fund, an organization that participates in the support and co-management of China’s population control program through coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization.
CAP AND TRADE BAGGAGE
Newt said in 2007 that he would “strongly support” a program that combined carbon caps and a trading system, “I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support…If [George W. Bush] had instituted a regime that combined three things I just said – mandatory caps, a trading system inside the caps, as we have with clean air, and a tax incentive to be able to invest in the new technology and to be able to produce the new technology – I think we would be much better off than we are in the current situation…”
WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION BAGGAGE
Newt said he would support a “transfer of finances” from rich to poor during a 2005 appearance with Hillary Clinton.
MYSTERY BAGGAGE
Newt, for some odd and unknown reason, received a $500,000 line of credit at world Tiffany & Co. When word surfaced that Gingrich and his wife had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the world renowned jeweler, Gingrich said he and his wife were “very frugal” and lived within their budget. But he refused to say what they’d bought, insisting it was “my private life.” When pressed, Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler declined to comment on why the Gingriches were carrying the debt to the jewelry company – or whether they still carried it.
LEAST “CONSERVATIVE” BAGGAGE
Newt wants you to believe that Mitt Romney is the “least conservative” candidate in the primary; he fails to recall that Romney was considered one of the most conservative candidates during the primary in 2008. Romney was endorsed in the primary by Laura Ingraham, Rick Santorum, Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn beck, William Bennet, Dennis Prager, Robert Bork, Hugh Hewitt, and a ridiculous plethora of other trusted “conservatives.” In fact, Sean Hannity was even quoted saying, “And if you ask me who the conservative, the most conservative in the race is, that most represents my values at this time, it is by far and away, Governor Romney!” If Romney is not the least conservative, then who is? Conservative columnist Anne Coulter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author George Will say it is Newt Gingrich.
“The choice, however, could be between Romney and the least conservative candidate, Newt Gingrich.” ~ George Will
“Newt Gingrich is the least conservative and the least electable.” ~ Anne Coulter
In fact, in 1989 Newt spoke of a “new synthesis evolving with the classic moderate wing of the party where, as a former Rockefeller state chairman, I’ve spent most of my life, and the conservative/activist right wing.” In 1992, when a reporter asked why he was backing President George H. W. Bush over Pat Buchanan, he responded: “Bush has never been a Rockefeller Republican. I have been. In 1968 I was for Rockefeller because he was the most pro-integrationist Republican candidate.” Who was Rockefeller? In terms of “conservatism,” Rockefeller was the John McCain of our time.
Newt was even booed at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
FLIP FLOP BAGGAGE
Newt was for getting Gaddafi on 3/3/11 before he was against interventionism on 3/23/11.
Newt was for an individual mandate in 1993 before he was against Obamacare in 2009.
Newt was for amnesty for illegal aliens in 2005 before he was against it in 2006.
Newt supported Cap & Trade in 2007 before he was against it in 2011.
Newt believed in global warming in 1984 before he didn’t in 1992.
Newt was against Affirmative Action in 1993 before he was against it in 1997.
BLAMING BAGGAGE
Newt blamed Susan Smith’s shocking murder of her children on Democrats.
Newt blamed the Columbine massacre on Democrats.
Newt blamed the Virginia Tech massacre on Democrats.
Newt blamed the media for his “open marriage.”
Newt blamed one man in Virginia for not getting enough signatures to be on the ballot.
Newt blamed Romney for his SuperPAC’s ads despite the legal separation of the two.
RACE BAGGAGE
Newt gets a pass calling Obama the “Food Stamp President,” because never have more people been on food stamps in American than under Obama thanks to his failed job-creation policies. But, Newt does not get a pass for apologizing to Rev. Jesse Jackson and then-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry on behalf of J.C. Watts, a black Republican, for having criticized them as “race hustling poverty pimps,” and then undermining Watts by inviting Jackson to a State of the Union address.
EDUCATION BAGGAGE
Newt has worked with Rev. Al Sharpton on education reform.
IMMIGRATION BAGGAGE
Newt won’t put a fence on the border.
Newt wants to implement a legalization method vis-à-vis a WWII-style draft panel for illegal aliens who have been in the United States for twenty-five years or more.
SOCIAL SECURITY BAGGAGE
Newt attacked Paul Ryan’s plan on Social Security. Newt called Paul Ryan’s plan to save Social Security “right-wing social engineering.”
FREDDIE MAC BAGGAGE
Newt took between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac just before it helped cause the economic meltdown.
ABORTION BAGGAGE
Newt supported the availability of federally-financed abortions in certain circumstances.
STEM CELL BAGGAGE
Newt supported the federally-funding stem cell research.
STIMULUS BAGGAGE
Newt felt that Obama’s 2009 stimulus package was a “bipartisan achievement.”
TARP BAGGAGE
Newt said he would have voted yes on second TARP bill.
ETHICS VIOLATIONS BAGGAGE
Newt was fined $350,000 for ethics violations: The House voted overwhelmingly, 395 to 28, to reprimand Speaker Gingrich, the first time in the House’s 208-year history it disciplined a speaker with ethical wrongdoing. They agreed with its ethics committee that Newt had brought discredit on the House by using tax-exempt money to promote political goals and then giving the committee false information for its inquiry.
The Ethics Violation Records are sealed; however, Nancy Pelosi, the senior Democrat when Gingrich was House Speaker and who served on the ethics committee that investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations, has stated that those records are damning and will be made public when the time is right, “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich… a thousand pages of his stuff… Not right here. When the time’s right.” And even if Newt is somehow able to keep an anonymous tip to a reporter from happening, there is an extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report that the public has yet to see.
If Pelosi knows, then Obama knows. And if Obama knows, then some reporter, probably at MSNBC, will be getting an anonymous tip in mid-to-late October. The fact is that nothing is ever sealed. Even during Obama’s Senate campaign, he somehow got his Republican opponent’s sealed divorce records unsealed… embarrassing his opponent so much that he dropped out of the race.
So, if Gingrich truly believes, “By definition, if you run for president, anything is on the table,” and “You cannot ask the people of the United States to (give) you the most powerful governmental job in the world… and not have them vet you carefully and thoroughly,” then he needs to have his Ethics Violation Records unsealed.
It’s not enough to want to see Newt debate Obama. Republicans need to win the election in 2012 and, liker her or not, Anne Coulter is right, “Newt Gingrich is the least conservative and the least electable.”
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Peppered with your usual empty-headed, unsubstantiated talking point crap like “We will end up with a President that has no regard for the Constitution.” (are you really not aware that this “end of America” language doesn’t really wash now that the guy has actually BEEN PRESIDENT for over three years now?) and it’s never less than hilarious to see anyone quote Ann freakin’ Coulter as anything but a pathologically dishonest, racist, homophobic harpy, but in general, I can’t fault hating on Newt. That he has even gotten this far in the process really says it all about the state of the GOP these days. Just hilarious.
Heyyyy I agree with you! As someone who is more left than not I will say that if Newt wins I do not think the right stands a chance. There is so little if anything likable about Newt.
With Mitt there are even some things a leftest like me can like, same thing goes for Ron Paul. Newt however stands no chance with me and from the looks of it, it looks like he is unfavorable with alot of the right as well.
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