MARIANNE WIFE NUMBER TWO SPEAKS OUT...
A man may fall by the wayside and have a fling when they are going through a mid life crisis, however with Newt it seems to be habit. From all indications it appears he may also has psychological problem as well. He was raised in a dysfunctional family with a manic depressive mother and a step father after his biological father took a hike. The articles are a long read but gives you an in depth analogy from someone who knew him well. Why Marianne Gingrich Finally Spoke Out... Read the good, bad and really ugly...The author has done a fabulous job of research in providing the background information. I'm convinced after reading how Newt invented himself and with recorded bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, impulsiveness, and excessive spending that every Presidential Candidate should be given MMPI Psychological Tests MMI. His leadership as Speaker created chaos. After reading the below quotes of Newt to his then wife I'm convinced that Newt as President would be a disaster for America. be ###
"Will he run?" Marianne asks. "Possibly. Because he doesn't connect things like normal people. There's a vacancy — kind of scary, isn't it?"
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.
Excerpt from the 2010 article Esquire featured on Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich himself was interviewed for the feature story; however, some of the juiciest insight into the life of the prominent conservative voice comes from his ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, whom he divorced in 2000.
"He asked me to marry him way too early," she revealed. "And he wasn't divorced yet [from his first wife Jackie Battley]. I should have known there was a problem."
Marianne Gingrich suggested that the former House Speaker found himself in the same relationship pattern eighteen years later when he sought to marry his current wife, then-congressional aide Callista Bisek.
"I know," she explained. "I asked him. He'd already asked her to marry him before he asked me for a divorce. Before he even asked."
The profile paints a silhouette highlighting the intersection of Gingrich's personal life and political career:
"There's somebody else, isn't there?"
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."
As for 2012, Marianne Gingrich shared her take on speculation swirling over the possibility of Newt Gingrich making a run for the White House in the next election cycle. The bottom line, she said, is that "there's no way" he'll be president.
"He could have been president," she explained. "But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don't like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new . . . you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way."
Marianne Gingrich suggested that her ex-husband "believes that what he says in public and how he lives don't have to be connected" and added, "If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president. ... He always told me that he's always going to pull the rabbit out of the hat."
Gingrich's second wife zeroed-in on what she suggested might be her ex-husband's Achilles' heel:
"He was impressed easily by position, status, money," she says. "He grew up poor and always wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself, you know.
There's much more in the full Esquire profile -- click here to read it all.
Related Article: Newt's Nastiness
And from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) in 2010:“He’s the last person I’d vote for for president of the United States ... His life indicates he does not have a commitment to the character traits necessary to be a great president.”
Loquacious Rep. Pete King (N.Y.), who is also not the most conservative Republican, said this in 2011: “Newt Gingrich was a disaster as speaker ... Everything was self-centered. There was a lack of intellectual discipline.”
Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio), in 2011 remarked:“Everything always seemed to be on fire.”
Mr. Family Values is amazingly similar to Bill Clinton - both are pot smoking, draft-dodging adulterers from poor Southern families. Click on the allegation of your choice:
Callista Bisek. Anne Manning. The unnamed "young volunteer". Are we missing anyone?
