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Gingrich’s second wife: Newt wanted ‘an open marriage’

source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/19/gingrichs-second-wife-newt-wanted-an-open-marriage/

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By Andrew Jones
Thursday, January 19, 2012

It’s the news Newt Gingrich doesn’t want to deal with in the midst of a possible GOP presidential campaign revival.

Marianne Gingrich, the second wife of the former House Speaker, is speaking out to ABC about her former husband’s infidelity for the first time since their divorce in 1999.

After Gingrich admitted to her that he had a six year affair with his current wife Callista while she was a congressional aide, Marianne told ABC that he wanted to have both a spouse and a mistress.

“And I just stared at him and he said, ‘Callista doesn’t care what I do,’” she said. “He wanted an open marriage and I refused.”

Gingrich married Marianne in 1981 after divorcing his first wife Jackie while she was being treated for cancer. Their marriage lasted until Gingrich sought for a divorce after Marianne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

On NBC’s Today Thursday morning, Newt Gingrich said he would not “say anything negative about Marianne.”

The full interview is scheduled to air on ABC’s Nightline Thursday evening at 11:35 P.M.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/19/gingrichs-second-wife-newt-wanted-an-open-...

WATCH: Video from ABC, which was broadcast on January 19, 2012.

"What a Guy, Dump one wife for another that will let you Fool Around!!!"
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153 comments // Gingrich’s second wife: Newt wanted ‘an open marriage’

  • Radical_Centrist
    • +2
      Radical_Centrist  

    • Newt Gingrich is a pig! SURPRISE SURPRISE! Obama is a Wall-Street Whore, Romney is a Flip Flopping Liar & Santorum is a Gay bashing liberty hating Neocon what choices we have this year.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paratus
    • -1
      Paratus  

    • "But it is only sex". Isn't that what Bill Clintons supporters said about his liaison with Monica?? Why don't you apply the same test to Newt? Even if Gingrich wanted an open marriage that is between he and Marianne. When Bill was accused of improprieties Hillary referred to them as "Bimbo eruptions" and Jennifer Flowers and the rest were raked over the coals as unstable, nutty females. I guess the standard is different for Dems.
      Gingrich denied this. His ex-wife is considered to be a bit wacky. Newt has admitted that he did things prior to his religious turnaround and has asked for forgiveness. Is there no one in the Dem Party that has anything in their past? Are all the Dems saints somehow genetically built that they are perfect? Perhaps we should let this ancient history lie or do Democrats believe that once we do anything wrong there is no redemption? How do you guys deal with alcoholics or drug addicts? I would surmise that using the Dem model, Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous is meaningless as no one can turn their life around. Of all the parties to require an angelic countenance the Democrat Party would be the least likely.

    • 4 months ago
  • Buddha2112
  • LivingPong
    • 0
      LivingPong  

    • Good old monogamous cheating, and a little bit of lying and hell, why not blame his wife for his philandering ways! Good old conservative values! I wouldn't expect anything less than lying and cheating, dismembering and selling off once profitable companies and dumping the workforce and many other devious actions once referred to as sins by his ilk, but now cheered and clapped by their supporters. Venture capital, adultery, minority bashing and talking up war! Pretty usual election Republican strategy. What I don't understand is Republican candidates blaming a Republican lead congress! Care to explain Romney?

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  

    • Awesome men of intellect deserve awesome harems of soft smooth bodies hugging an caressing them every hour of the day???

      I'VE GOT IT! WE'VE DISCOVERED THE FIRST WHITE CAUCASIAN ARAB IN THE WORLD. HE WORKS FOR US!!!

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      The Other White Man oops Herman Cain is on the Neil Bootz Show right now IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING HIS POLITICAL COMEBACK [now that good ol' boy Newt has opened the door for him].

      IS THIS THE CREAM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?!

    • 4 months ago
  • FoosMaster
    • +1
      FoosMaster  

    • He attacked the moderator for even asking the question and the crowd cheered.
      Just shows that those people do not Care what kind of person the candidate is. Their ONLY concern is "can he beat Obama" because they don't care about what kind of person their choice is or what their choice would do to the country as long as that “uppity N*****” is replaced, (I am from SC and have heard Many people say that and Proudly admit to their prejudice).

    • 4 months ago
  • GENERALNATTY
    • +1
      GENERALNATTY  

    • Lets face it newt is not a sex symbol never has been, he more than likely spent half his life making playboy pages sticky, when he became a politician all of a sudden he got some groupies and now he making up for lost time.

      "men are only as faithful as their options" - Chris Rock

    • 4 months ago
  • JangoFetish
  • cantucwearebrothers
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • cantucwearebrothers:

      Not if you were The Glorious Leader of a marauding band invading Indian lands. You pick whatever daisies ya want, like for instance Daisy Mae Clampett. Then you tell your sick wife how much she needs to remain married to you BECAUSE YOU ENJOY CONGRESSIONAL HEALTH COVERAGE.

      A lesson from Battlefield Earth => it's all about Leverage.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Johnny_Los_Angeles
    • +3
      Johnny_Los_Angeles  

    • Public Newt: "I am against Gay marriage it destroys the sanctity of marriage", Private Newt: To wife "yeah im having an affair, either go along with it in an open marriage or your out of here..."

    • 4 months ago
  • DEM46
  • sunny1
    • 0
      sunny1  

    • You know I joked about my write in candidate Mickey Mouse just might be the answer - now I think he might be the only choice. This comment posted by sunny1sarcastic.

    • 4 months ago
  • DEM46
    • 0
      DEM46  

    • Well let's look at this logically. Newt cheated on two wives, lied or at least was dishonest about it while railing against Clinton for doing something similar, had problems with ethics, has an ego that's only matched by Trump, so...

      I believe him when he says the open marriage charge is a lie.

      Don't you?

    • 4 months ago
  • JustZ
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      JustZ  

    • Incredible. This horrible congressmen who left the House in disgrace... now wants to be your President.

      Newt Gingrich epitomizes all that is wrong in our government. He's a lying, sanctimonious, privileged hypocrite who only serves himself on behalf of the mega rich Banksters.

      If you vote for this ass hat... YOU are insuring things will only get worse for the 99%. All that economic chaos in Greece ... will soon become reality for America.

      Wake up people! You can't vote crooks into office and expect progress for the 99%.

    • 4 months ago
  • chew_chew
    • +2
      chew_chew  

    • Mr Gingrich is suffering a lot of damage at the hands of Super PACs. First, it was the Romney Super PAC. Now, it's the Gingrich X-Wives Super PAC.

      Poor Newtsie.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
    • +1
      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      A Lifelong Pervert who despises BEING NEAR SICK PEOPLE [so much he divorces himself to get away from them] deserves the Oval Office!!!

      But, I agree with an earlier poster who stated the Winner has already been decided so Newt's being unable to be near a sick person is quite irreverent er, irrelevant.

      NEWT KNOWS ALL ABOUT DESPICABLE.

    • 4 months ago
  • keithponder
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • keithponder:

      Newt Gingrich is a Sickist. Possibly the first one to be recognized IN PUBLIC VIEW EXPOSED. Sickists are very high intellect and clever => so clever they hide their despicable feelings. Working beside a Sickist you wouln't have a clue they were one.

      Sick people are despicable rejects of mankind in a SICKIST THEOLOGY. They force a Republican to face fallibility in humans that they insist can be overcome if the sick person but only applied theirself enough to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps".

      I can see Mr. Gingrich driving the big scoop loader truck in Soylent Green scooping up the whining~complaining masses driving them to the Soylent Machine to use them as more food.

      And he would be laughing just actor Jerry Reed laughed when he drove his Smokey and the Bandit big rig over the motorcycles after their riders beat him to a pulp over his dog being in the roadside restaurant and truck stop.

      NEWT WILL MAKE AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT. Schoolchildren will be made to spend half their school days studying citizenship while children in India keep on gettin' up [into Outer Space]. Having Newt in Power will be like a cross between Mark Levine and Rush Limbaugh steering the Roman galleons into more righteous wars.

      HAHAHA LOOKIN' FORWARD TO IT HERE. Making all the schoolchildren wear national uniforms will be rich to watch too.

    • 4 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • keithponder:

      NEWT = WHITE = PASS. CAIN = BLACK = FAIL.

      SIMPLE MATH PROBLEM. EASILY SOLVED.

      NEWT = PARTY IN FLAMES.

      On the other hand hmm, if Newt is allowed to remain in then Cain has the open door to return. This is one helluva sack race [watching who gets sacked next].

    • 4 months ago
  • Buddha2112
    • -1
      Buddha2112  

    • Yep, he's a weird stupid fuck. But really, is there a reason to continue on this bullshit? He won't be in the race very long.

      However, hounding him on this one issue and not more important ones is not only extremely short-sighted and shallow, but ultimately pointless.

      This as #1 for more than 1 day is really sad... and strangely becoming more and more typical of this community.

      You guys are as nuts as he is.

    • 4 months ago
  • keithponder
  • joeredford
  • Buddha2112
  • Buddha2112
    • -1
      Buddha2112  
    • keithponder:

      His character is exposed. There's no need to beat a dead horse. I just can't stand the media hype over such bullshit for so long. It's not like everyone is perfect, anyway. I don't like him for MANY other reasons. Wanting an open relationship, is not one of them... It wasn't that big a deal for Clinton and half these liberals would line up to suck his and hillary's dick.

      Integrity! Ahahahaha

    • 4 months ago
  • joeredford
  • dinm76
    • +1
      dinm76  

    • The republican party is dead. It's just that it's so diseased nobody wants to touch the body long enough to bury it.

    • 4 months ago
  • joeredford
  • JustZ
  • joeredford
  • 2hellnwait
  • keithponder
  • 2hellnwait
  • keithponder
    • +3
      keithponder  
    • 2hellnwait:

      To say that most men do is a reckless hypothesis. You can't find any credibility in a bet ? Have you or anyone that you know ever taken accurate poll ? Probably not. It sounds a lot safer to say that a lot of men do, but to say that most men do is really unfair to those of us that don't. I agree with his wife. You're not married anymore.

      I'm not offended by you or angry at you for saying it, but I do take offense to the general assumption.

    • 4 months ago
  • 2hellnwait
  • cantucwearebrothers
    • 0
      cantucwearebrothers  
    • 2hellnwait:

      This seems evident. So the real question becomes...do they want it only for themselves or do they understand the fact that their spouse would then be able to take advantage of the open marriage. I don't think most men ponder that.

    • 4 months ago
  • 2hellnwait
  • keithponder
    • +2
      keithponder  

    • I live in Georgia. Stories have been circulating for years about this perp and his women. Newt Gingrinch is a cum freak. It's hypocritical racist for America to allow Newt to hang around in the Republican race without any kind backlash from the public or media. Herman Cain was forced out while Newt is behaving like a duck with water rolling off of his back.

      Cain's wife never admitted to any of this and even though the allegations might have been true, they were never proven to be. On the other hand ,Newt has never denied having affairs with other women, he was caught in a scandal while working overtime, trying his best to have Bill Clinton impeached for doing the same thing that he was doing, and here's his 2nd wife telling America what kind of a low life scumbag he is, and people are just making jokes about it. This shit isn't funny. The man is ethicly flawed in the worst of ways and people want him in the Whitehouse ?

    • 4 months ago
  • nardo1224
    • +1
      nardo1224  
    • keithponder:

      I call it MASTER MENTALITY! White Southerners have this mentality like slave masters. They feel they have the right to dictate exactly how others live, the standards they have to measure up to and the beliefs they have to espouse. Those standards are for everyone else, not them. Because they (in their minds) are superior they don't have to answer to any one, however, everyone else has to answer to them.
      Ethics are for little people!

    • 4 months ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • keithponder
  • keithponder
    • 0
      keithponder  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      Newt's affairs are not alleged. None of them are. One of Cain's affairs are alleged and all of his sexual harrassment issues are alleged. Where there's smoke there's fire. I agree, but you missed my point. I live in Georgia. Newt's name has been connected to affairs and sexual harrassment for over 20 years here in Georgia and he's always gotten afree pass.

      Even right now people are trying to call this woman a "scorned wife" and "unattractive" simply because she came forward. Why is the blame being put on her.

    • 4 months ago
  • DEM46
    • 0
      DEM46  

    • Awh, but he denied it in the debate tonight. Don't ya believe him? He's born again ya know, we all should, he's a grandpa now and we all know that means one doesn't lie anymore!

    • 4 months ago
  • warman1138
    • +4
      warman1138  

    • Number one couldn't trust him, neither could number two and this guy wants to be in the white house. Who could trust him with anything much less the country. Another hypocrite.....

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • nardo1224
    • +2
      nardo1224  

    • I always knew Ole Newt wanted to literally have his cake and eat it too, so it doesn't surprise me that it fits figuratively as well!

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • Incredulous
    • +8
      Incredulous  

    • am I missing something here....because I can't seem to figure out why even one woman would want to do Newt....I'm not getting that hot and sexy vibe from him.....just ewwwww.

    • 4 months ago
  • ThirdSection
  • KB723
  • Incredulous
  • Incredulous
  • ThirdSection
  • KB723
  • eden49
    • +3
      eden49  
    • Incredulous:

      ...must admit, he doesn't rock my boat, but then neither did Carlo Ponti who was married to the beautiful Sophia Loren...and then on the other hand, women find power extremely alluring, regardless of the package...

    • 4 months ago
  • Incredulous
  • Incredulous
    • +2
      Incredulous  
    • eden49:

      ahhh, good point eden, but I think Carlo Ponti always had a certain je ne sais quoi that the newt definitely lacks, and as far as the power department goes, I think newt's has always been smoke and daggers. He created an illusion of power in certain gullible circles, but I don't think he ever really had much of his own, but hell, I'll be the first one to admit, women can be stupid when it comes to men.

    • 4 months ago
  • eden49
    • +1
      eden49  
    • Incredulous:

      ...sorry for the delay, this bloody laptop keeps blacking out...grrrrrrr...windows vista, what a load of bollocks...anyhow, just watched the Daily Show, and one of the headlines on the show was "Freaker of the Spouse"...lol...referring to you know who...it was hillarious...

    • 4 months ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • ThirdSection
  • eden49
  • KB723
  • ThirdSection
  • KB723
  • eden49
  • KB723
  • eden49
  • eden49
  • KB723
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • KB723
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • KB723
  • budsnews
  • eden49
  • ThirdSection
  • littlwarrior
    • +2
      littlwarrior  
    • ThirdSection:

      McCain wasn't vetted? McCain is a good man, I don't agree with his politics but I do still believe him to be a good man and I respect him. Gingrich is just not a good guy at all! Good ol Sarah just dumb, plain ol dumb.

    • 4 months ago
  • ThirdSection
  • BusterPoindextor
  • MSII
    • +1
      MSII  
    • BusterPoindextor:

      What I'm wondering also. How his crowd will spin this. Probably try and say she was manipulated by the "liberal media", some such b.s. I'm sure that p.o.s karl rove has some major bullshit brewing.

    • 4 months ago
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • Arizona_Huey
  • ThirdSection
  • KB723
  • budsnews
  • KB723
  • budsnews
  • KB723
  • ThirdSection
  • budsnews
  • kennymotown
  • bailey78
  • Conniepae
    • +3
      Conniepae  

    • IMHO, this is a prime example of how our world has changed. Up is now down, black is now white, wrong is now right.

      But, is it really? American media is 'spinning' exactly what the candidates want. They could be scripted with their 'move along' rhetoric as though damaging facts don't matter. American's 'move along' to the wrongs. If told often enough that it's okay, people believe it is. Sad, sad, sad!

      The people talk 'crazy talk. It's not right. It's not acceptable­. What the heck is wrong with people? WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR 'SHAME'?

      ACCOUNTABI­LITY! ACCOUNTABI­LITY! ACCOUNTABI­LITY!

      Up is not down! Black is not white! Wrong is NOT right! It's time for us to stop acting as though it is. Hold them accountabl­e! Don't move along! Support the media outlets that hold people accountabl­e. If they 'move you along', do it. Change the channel to media that understand­s 'wrong is not right'.

      I support Current TV. They 'really are' trying to hold people accountabl­e. If you feel they are lying, go on line and share facts which prove they are wrong. Hold them accountabl­e, but don't ignore media, which understand­s accountability and shame.

    • 4 months ago
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