Marianne Gingrich reportedly claims Newt wanted 'open marriage'

[brooklynite]

Politico:

Brian Ross, the ABC News reporter who interviewed Marianne Gingrich, lifts the curtain a bit on what she told him, via WMAL:

He came to her and said, 'I want to stay married to you and still have an affair with Calista, his current wife," said Ross. "According to Marianne, he said 'You need to share me,' and she said 'I don't want to share,' and the marriage ended," he added.

The big question is which of the three stories is going to get lost in all of tomorrow's Newt news?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. How much you wanna bet Marianne is collecting some big bucks

from the Grey Eminences of the Party for this? They need to knock the Salamander out fast, before he does even more damage to Willard's electability by exposing his deep involvement in legalized corporate corruption?

It's not just the damage to Willard that's in play here. It's also the damage to the whole right-wing mythology of capitalism. The Salamander is dynamiting the foundations of corporate capitalism in his desperate attempt to bring down Willard. Holy cow, Cayman money laundering? 15% taxes? Job destruction? A lot of (fat)cats are coming out of the bag here, and Willard stands as a sort of testament to the evils of the corporate state.

[onehandle]

8. Mittens' cronies clearly paid for and timed this for SC. nt

[yardwork]

43. Yep. I hope that the people of South Carolina stick with Gewt!

Come on, South Carolinians! Are you going to let these smears and innuendo stop you from supporting the Gewt!? He's the real thing.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. So he wanted to have his cake and eat it too?

And she yes to the cake, but hell to the no on the open marriage.

[yellowcanine]

16. Some might refer to it as cake, I have heard cookie also......

[crim son]

20. *snicker* n/t

[mac56]

30. muffin?

[Javaman]

29. newt wants to eat everyones cake...

ewww.

[mazzarro]

3. IOW - Newt wanted an under-the-table polygamous marriage? Hmmm -- n/t

[Fool Count]

82. He is just going for the Mormon vote, Romney's base, you know.

[zazen]

4. "share him?!" who'd want a portion in the first place?!

Ugh. What some women will put up with to have the status of politician's spouse. I'd have to be heavily drugged to endure the ordeal of physicality with that dude.

[brooklynite]

17. Well, there was certainly enough of Newt to go around...

[onpatrol98]

31. Thinking the same thing...

I was thinking the same thing. Surely, it would take a stiff drink every morning just to contemplate that "til death due us part" clause in their marriage.

[Wind Dancer]

74. Ditto!

The visual is nauseating!

[onehandle]

5. Sigh. Just heard the audio. Why couldn't this have happened after the SC Primary? Bye, Newt. nt

[Jazzgirl]

6. I thought I had read this a couple of months ago.

I thought his second wife had already told someone this but I never heard much about it.

[IcyPeas]

35. you are right...

I heard on Thom Hartmann's show this morning it already was in a Vanity Fair article a while back (or was it Esquire?) I forget, but it already was "out there"

[swimboy]

80. It had previously only reached people who read

It needed to go out over the television to be effective in SC.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

7. And Gingrich at this point is the family values crowd's best hope. Laughable! nt

[workinclasszero]

45. Unreal aint it?

Lets see focus on the family, Pat Robinson and all those 7 mountain heretics get up and defend Newt now. Im sure they will say God wants newty to save amerika!

The boy just cant keep it in his pants can he? Divorced his first wife as she was dying, asked for an open marriage from his second wife so he could screw his present wife!

Republican family values!

[Liberty Belle]

86. How long 'til he starts cheating on Calista, I wonder?

[workinclasszero]

97. Considering his past....

Newts prolly already cheatin on the cheater he cheated with for six years on his second wife!

Still can't believe any woman with good eyesight would want to do it with Newty but $$$ and power are a turn on I guess.

[Mira]

9. Again an illustration of Republican Family Values in high places

heck, somebody had to say it..............

(imagining this guy within 3 feet of me is not even possible :barf

[crazylikafox]

10. Won't matter. It was before he found Jesus

But I'll bet that Calista isn't too happy to hear this!!! LOL, I'm sure he was telling her that he was busy trying to get a divorce.

[Lasher]

13. Some of the fundies will be repulsed by this.

But you're right to point out that this was before all his sins were forgiven. People often have an amazing capacity to rationalize.

[Critters2]

40. It was his mistress of 8 years who brought him to Jesus.

Their heads will explode!

[workinclasszero]

49. "It was his mistress of 8 years who brought him to Jesus."

Uh....yeah....

Only in republican lunatic land.....

Those flat earth bastards are all lyin scumbags! Just look at the lowlife slimeballs they put up for president!

[workinclasszero]

48. But how come democrats are never forgiven?

Did the reich wing preachers ever forgive Clinton??

Fucking hypocrites....

[d_r]

66. EXACTLY

the same ones will talk about how this OK out of one side of their mouth and then STILL talk down Clinton out the other side. cognitive dissonancing hypocrites.

[lunatica]

101. Clinton never claimed Jesus forgave him for all his sins

That's the difference. You gotta claim god has personally forgiven you in order for the reich wing preachers to accept it.

Which makes me wonder if they forgive only because they fear god, who they've converted into the ultimate terrorist in their hatred of anyone who is not just like them.

[Raven]

11. If I was #3, I'd be pissed. n/t

[zbdent]

15. taking bets on who's #4 ...

and if she would be the "First Lady" at the time of the Oath of Office (or would that be "fourth lady"??? Nancy Reagan was referred to as "The First Lady" ... strangely, it was a "strong conservative" who was the first DIVORCED President).

[woodsprite]

55. Didn't he say he had a special position for Palin if he's elected.

There ya go! Mistress/Wife #4.

[bigdarryl]

12. There's nothing worst than a SCORN WOMAN!!!

[zbdent]

14. Newt's "Contract With Marriage"

"Marriage is a contract between one man and one woman"

Republican subsection 6, article 23 - "and one or more other women if you're a Republican attacking a sitting president for an extramarital fling"

[crazylikafox]

18. Oops

Is he on tape saying that? Would make a great campaign commercial, with his Ex also on tape saying he wanted an open marriage.

[closeupready]

52. Wow, that really is a good one.

Someone should do a Gingrich Greatest Hits on youtube, juxtaposing that with a snippet of Marianne's quote on ABC...

[TBF]

19. Marianne, you are one crazy lady.

Did you look at your husband? I would've agreed to that deal immediately.

[zbdent]

94. Remember what they said about Edwards?

It's the draw to power ...

Remember, Newt was LYING to the American people back then ... at the same point he was saying that Clinton was lying to the American people.

[Beacool]

21. Newt is a megalomaniac.

Did he really think that Marianne was going to go for that arrangement??????

Then again, this is the guy who was so ticked off that he had to exit through the back of Air Force One that he ended up shutting down the government in 1995. His gigantic ego will always be his downfall.

What always gets to me is not the sin, but the hypocrisy. I remember Newt, Edwards, Vitter, and many others wagging an accusatory finger at Clinton over a BJ. Meantime they had full fledged affairs, and in some cases, even children with these women.

Newt and the rest of the cadre of hypocrites make me sick on a personal level that goes beyond their politics.

[efhmc]

22. She didn't want to share this manly man. He should have become a Mormon,

fled to Mexico and formed his own colony.

[sarcasmo]

23. Asked my wife about this and she said

don't even think about it, damn!

[Botany]

24. Newt on God's Forgiveness

"What I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation
ethics. I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them. I found that I felt
compelled to seek God's forgiveness, not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness," he said.

"I do believe in a forgiving God. And I think most people, deep down in their hearts, hope
there's a forgiving God. Somebody once said that when we're young, we seek justice, but
as we get older, we seek mercy. There's something to that, I think," he added.


http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2011/March/Newt-Gingrich-Talks-God-Forgiveness-/

**************

BTW 100% internet rumor but old Newt did some lobbying work for Iran too.

[Ilsa]

90. The Iran thing needs to be kept for the general election campaigning.

With all the hand-wringing going on now over Iran, this should make for some explosive politicking.

[Botany]

91. It should but it will not be mentioned

Dick Cheney and Haliburton were doing deals w/ Iran all the time
and Haliburton was still doing deals w/ Iran after W's talk about
that country being part of "the Axis of Evil." And that got hardly
a whisper from the media.

Newt would do and still does anything that benefits Newt be it
telling the world that global warming isn't real after getting checks
from the coal industry or speaking of God's grace and forgiveness
of Newt sins of "being a player" as he was trying to get Bill Clinton
removed from office for his moral failings.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

25. Whew. What a relief.

I was worried it was going to be "man on child" or "man on dog."

Nothing odd here. Move along.

[Iliyah]

26. Newt will

probably win SC with this cause ya know that the rightwing goppers thrive on this and immediately forgive anyone with a "R" by it. Its only the "D" and "I" that are condemn for this type of behavior. Newt is a Christian and Mittens is not. A lot of so called conservative Christians will not vote for Mit.

[ThoughtCriminal]

71. Newt's "Values" Base

Would secretly love to have that kind of arrangement.

[Nay]

76. They would. In fact, back in the old days, this is exactly the arrangement the men had for them-

selves, and we cannot forget that millions of these RW men would love nothing better than to go back to that, while keeping wifey an economic prisoner.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

27. You need to share me? Okay, I'll take your eye

the eye of Newt.


Reading stories about Newt is good for my weight-loss. Just imagining someone as repulsive as he is saying that to me, made me completely lose my appetite.

[truth2power]

98. "eye of Newt"? "Toe of frog" is more what I think of when I look at him. n/t

[marmar]

28. Which I could care less about if he wasn't such a hypocritcal pig.

[SoapBox]

33. Scum and dirt bag...

Newty...you give me the creeps.

And just the thought of you, on top of anyone, makes me want to vomit.

[woodsprite]

56. But what about with a ball gag in his mouth and

Calista holding a whip. That's more how I figure it.

[tabatha]

34. And he is so quick to judge and condemn others.

What a revolting piece of slime.

[mstinamotorcity]

36. somebody give me a BARF BAG!!!!!!!

I am sorry DU but I just can't help but be sick at the thought of Newt in Boxers and a wife beater, i am going to be sick!!!

[AllyCat]

37. The whole lot of them are completely dirty and corrupt. Except Marianne G...

What the Newtster did was awful. What Calista did was awful. What the Romney crew is doing is awful.

Family and American values my a$$

[Control-Z]

42. Wait - Marianne was his second wife.

So wasn't she a cheater before she got cheated on?

[AllyCat]

60. Oh, was she the one he was banging while the first one was in hospital with cancer?

Or was Marianne the one with cancer. I can't keep it all straight!

[tblue37]

67. Jackie was #1--the wife with cancer. nt

[AllyCat]

78. Okay, then Marianne is a dirty cheater too.

[johnlal]

38. It's amazing that she was "open" to having sex with Newt.

Maybe he needs to be Newtered.

[brooklynite]

39. You know, if Newt picks a female VP, it could a whole new meaning to the phrase...

..."an open Administration".

[LongTomH]

41. Newt's got to be feeling like the Lusitania...........Torpedo hit, broadside!

It's going to take some really fancy fast-talking for him to survive this!

[workinclasszero]

44. Republican family values strike again!

Hypocrite, thy name is REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[colsohlibgal]

46. Hyocrites 'R Us

It's just stunning and yet there they are.

I blame Fox and the ridiculous false equivalencies on places like CNN and other media factors. But more than anything I blame the incredible cluelessness of millions of people who don't spend the time to research what is really what....and keep buying family values talk from the likes of this heartless serial adulterer scumbag.

[Hubert Flottz]

47. There is a song about the Newtzi...

[Pachamama]

62. Too funny... Great song! Love Johnny!

That should be the campaign song.....

[libodem]

50. And there he was shaming Bill Clinton to tears

While he was carrying on in much the same way. Wish a grand jury had him by the nuts. Fucker. Literally.

[olegramps]

51. No worry. The Catholic bishops think he is the epitome of Christian morality. He opposes abortion.

Rather contridictory isn't it when he is an abortion.

[aquart]

53. So he didn't want to marry Calista?

Entertaining.

[crazylikafox]

54. Funny, isn't it?

I guess she's been making him pay with that Tiffany's charge card ever since.

[CaliforniaLuis]

57. Newt Is "Traditional"

Your average GOP infidel uses gay prostitutes, methamphetamine and motel rooms (or public restrooms).

[fantomas]

58. Newt: Historian & Swinger

Bow-chicha-bow-bow!

[julian09]

61. Is Clarisa still a swinger? nt

[mazzarro]

75. Good question there! -- n/t

[Judi Lynn]

59. How Newt Stopped Marianne From Revealing Secrets the First Time

How Newt Stopped Marianne From Revealing Secrets the First Time
—By David Corn
| Thu Jan. 19, 2012 1:31 PM PST

~snip~
Gingrich's six-year-long extramarital tryst with Callista Bisek, a congressional aide at the time, is not news. But his alleged effort to define his own marriage as a union between a man and a woman and a woman had not been previously reported.

It's not much of a surprise that Marianne would lob this bombshell at this point. She and Newt went through an acrimonious divorce in 1999. Back then, as a recovering Newt-watcher, I covered some of those proceedings and on occasion spoke to Marianne. What was striking at the time was that Gingrich seemed to be the one acting vindictively in the proceedings. Marianne appeared to just want a clean exit (with the right amount of compensation). Here's part of a dispatch I wrote for Salon:

“We don’t know. We just don’t know. If you find out, let me know. It’s a mystery.” So said Marianne Gingrich, the soon-to-be ex-wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, when asked why she thought Newt was being a hard-ass in the divorce proceedings he initiated against her.

We were talking Tuesday morning in a courtroom in the Superior Court of Washington, minutes before the latest hearing in the case, and I remarked that it was hard to make sense of Newt’s scorched-earth approach to the divorce, which has already revealed his six-year-long extramarital affair with congressional aide Calista Bisek and tainted whatever was left of his image as a family-values Republican.

More:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/gingrich-marianne-divorce-open-marriage

[tblue37]

72. Actually, it is typical (Rovian) Republican behavior. They project their own ugliness,

their own crimes or faults onto their opponent and attack the other person on his/her strength, the way they made Kerry, a genuine war hero, out to be a coward and W out to be a war hero.

[DCBob]

63. This is going to hurt.

Especially the attack about the possibility that we could have First Mistress/Lady in the WH.

[Fearless]

64. Well he was going to cheat anyways...

At least he was being honest I guess... Nothing wrong with polygamy... this is just to get the fundies mad. I'd suggest we don't play it up in our circles.

[arely staircase]

65. newt actually makes other politicians look humble

and thats in an endeavor in which egomania is a requirement for participation.

[oberliner]

68. Leviticus 20:10

"'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

We are a Judeo-Christian nation after all.

[workinclasszero]

70. Funny the hypocrites use the old testament to condemn gays to hellfire

And then give a pass to a serial adulterer like Newt! Same book condemns Newty as well!

This just proves that the anti gay so-called Christian right is all about hatred period. Or they would be the first to condemn Newty but hell naw, they just want any old slimeball to defeat a real married family man with one wife and two nice kids because he is not WHITE!

Just watch all the Ayn Rand/mammon loving preachers stand up for Newt and praise him as Gods man to save Amerrca! Damn hypocrites!

[DCBob]

69. How open?

Menage a trois?

[KatyaR]

73. Every time I think of that slimy salamander as President, I think of the Emperor Nero"

[IMG][/IMG]

[IMG][/IMG]

[mazzarro]

77. Since Gingrich and Callista believe in open marriage

That means, if by some chance Newt gets to the WH, there will be a first mistress/concubine as well as a first lady. And may be more too!

[Xipe Totec]

79. Well, that will newter his campaign... nt

[Rhiannon12866]

81. Has the Catholic Church weighed in on this?

He became a newly minted Catholic when he married the third Mrs. Gingrich. I don't remember "sharing" in any of the RC wedding vows.

[MrMickeysMom]

83. He's so fucking hot...

[JI7]

85. yup, i'm so jealous of Pelosi there

[complain jane]

87. You owe me a new keyboard

I read that headline and spit diet pepsi all over mine.

[Guilded Lilly]

84. This won't make a dent because S.C., this time around is more....

racist than it is moralist.

[dballance]

88. Well it is quite obvious Newt wanted to screw around

Newt is on wife number three after cheating on one and two. I just wonder who is in the background as number four.

Oh those family values and the sanctity of marriage. We so really need to protect marriage from the gays. Oops, though, heterosexuals are doing a great job of destroying marriage all on their own. What is the rate of divorce these days?

Maybe if all you asshats want to save marriage you should outlaw divorce. That might just make people take a couple of thoughts about getting hitched.

[Lil Missy]

89. Can you imagine the uproar if this were about Clinton or Obama?

[dickthegrouch]

92. I loved that he said the "smear was expected"

Could that be spin for TRUE?

[newspeak]

95. yes, now newty is the victim

why is she coming out with it now? And my thoughts are because she has a sounding board. Little old newt wasn't really given a public voice like now, when he's running for office. So, now she also has public media access.

He's outraged I tell you. How dare she do this now!!!! Again, it's about character. But, it won't really matter to some repugs, they'll excuse just about anything. Including his statements about going over the supremes, children used for labor to break a union, or allowing the corporate sharks to further screw us by total deregulation.

Yes, we too can have the chinese dream. Making 35 cents an hour, working over thirty hours a day, be imprisoned for attempting to form a union and have safety nets to catch us when we decide we've had enough. What these "new" sociopathic, greedy repugs want is a return to the gilded age. Where the true masters, the robber barons, ruled the land.

[TahitiNut]

93. Clearly, this is consistent with the GOP's "anti-union" and Open Shop policy.

Newt was only humoring her when he engaged in collective bargaining with her. If you're going to be anti-union, it should apply to ANY union, including the marital union. Newt clearly supports a "Right To Bonk" platform plank. She's silly if she thought she could strike.

[Iliyah]

96. I am getting really

pissed off. It always the WOMAN's fault huh. Newt is such a PERFECT husband. These goppers always play the VICTIM card.

I hope wife number three don't get an illness b/c Newt will (if not already have another) move on to wife number four.

[dipsydoodle]

99. Why ? Have they got a pet goat ?

[sellitman]

100. If one more candidate drops out then Newt would actually get his three way!