Newt’s been naughty – Gingrich’s ex-wife speaks for first time
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With a 2012 bid looking more than likely, John Richardson asks himself, “just who is Newton Leroy Gingrich, really?” The answer, as written for Esquire, is a story both “epic and bizarre”—and gossipy. Though Richardson interviewed Gingrich for the profile, some of the biggest revelations come from his ex-wife, Marianne, in her first time discussing “what happened.” The highlights:
- He proposed while he was still married: “He asked me to marry him way too early,” she says, within weeks of meeting. “And he wasn’t divorced yet. I should have known there was a problem,” When Richardson calls the speedy proposal flattering, she replied, “It’s not so much a compliment to me. It tells you a little bit about him.”
- And then he did it again, 18 years later: “I know. I asked him. He’d already asked her to marry him before he asked me for a divorce. Before he even asked,” she says of his proposal to congressional aide Callista Bisek.
- She doesn’t think he’ll run for president: “There’s no way,” she says. Writes Richardson, “She thinks he made a choice long ago between doing the right thing and getting rich, and when you make those choices, you foreclose other ones.”
- As for his first wife, who was his high school geometry teacher…: “To this day, the official story is that he started dating Jackie when he was 18 and she was 25,” he writes. “But he was really just 16, she says.”
- As for Newt telling Richardson, “Callista and I kid that I’m four and she’s five and therefore she gets to be in charge…” “Her eyes go wide when she hears his line about being four to Callista’s five. ‘You know where that line came from? Me. That’s my line. That’s what I told him. I’m sorry, that’s so freaky.’
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One of the things I admire about Gingrich is the way he talks without breathing. I have tried to do it, it’s really hard, can’t do more 10 seconds. Another thing is his wide eyed insane grin, he would make a great B-movie actor.
Same guy that was boning his secretary, while calling for Clinton to be impeached because he got a little sumtin sumtin in the Oval office. Prick.
LOL! I think I love you Jess 🙂
It’s my way with words and the CA girl accent isn’t it? 🙂
Oh that is just great, Mike. Now what am I to do with my Jess crush?
Hey now, no need to be all sucky uppy :). You are still on the good list for the speakers, if I am still talking to you when I want rid of them. Don’t think I don’t know that is why you have the crush, can’t be anything else, because you have the lovely and multi talented MH you live with.
Jess, now what kind of person would I be if I allowed my emotions to be swayed by material things such as speakers of a particularly rare and special kind? That would be so shallow…
Just a fat old bloke if you ask me
Let me start off by saying that I cannot stand that a**hole Newt Gingrich. I hate his politics, his lack of honesty,lack of integrity, his lying and hypocrisy. His ideas are dangerous and prejudiced. I even hate his haircut and the tone of his voice.
That being said…I don’t think I would put too much confidence in characterizing a person from statements by an ex-wife. But that is just me.
You make a good point with the ex-wife reliability thing Krell.