Newt is a serial adulterer & Callista had a long affair with a married man (with an ill wife).

[AnotherMother4Peace]

Since when did this behavior become acceptable, especially for a President and First Lady. Call me old fashion, but I don't think any woman, no matter what her politics are, will vote for a man or woman with such morals. This tells me everything I need to know about the GOP.

[Mz Pip]

1. Newt

got religion, supposedly repented and found salvation. The best way to not have your past come back and bite you on the ass is to find Jesus and pretend to be redeemed.

His affairs are the least of his problems IMHO. The guy is an arrogant douche and his wife's hair does not move.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

5. Reminds me when my father would beat my mother & go to church each Sunday - righteous hypocrite

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. First time I've ever verbalized this big family secret & it brings tears to my eyes & yes my dad

was a very right wing republican.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. This is probably why I've turned away from religion, & why I'm a Democrat

but lately I've been looking for a church, and am going to check out a local Unitarian Church that looks interesting.

[blondie58]

11. that is so sad AM4P

You are a very courageous woman.
And I think you Will like a unitarian church. They are. Very inviting.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

17. Thank you. Courageous? maybe. Tough - yeah. One time I took on the Son of a #@%#, belt & all

I was just a little thing, and he was beating me and I just went at him and didn't stop - I could have been killed, but I didn't care. I think I scared the crap out of him. It was one of my proudest moments.

The more I learn about Newt and Callista the more I become disgusted with their hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of the Republican Party. I capitalize out of respect - but I don't know how much respect I have left for this party.

[TalkingDog]

8. ....

:hug:

[karynnj]

10. That had to be incredibly tough to grow up in your family

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. Yeah, it was - but my mom - she was a saint - but so oppressed & with 10 kids. I now realize

how much she sacrificed for all of us. And she's the reason we are all to some degree successful and independent. We were devote Catholics and my Mom was a charitable woman, my dad - I don't know what his trip was - he talked the talk but sure as heck didn't walk the walk. It's still hard for me to revisit those violent times.

[KT2000]

2. I learned a lot when

they booed the soldier and clapped for the uninsured person left to die.
Who knows wqhat they will make of the adultery.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

25. In my book, adultery is WRONG, especially 3 x's - Republicans??? Family Values???

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Sanctity!

I still wait for one of the 'defenders of the Sacrament' to step up and address this stuff. The President has not hesitated in the past to speak of how he thinks marriage is a God thing and 'Sanctified' and all that when he explains why he thinks gay people are not worthy of marriage rights, so his silence on Newt and Herman and all the other straight married scandals in the GOP suggests that Obama is not concerned with the 'Sanctity of Marriage' at all, he is just anti equality for gay people, nothing more.
The lot of them disgust me. I ask the OP, do you think Newt and this week's Mrs Newt are Sanctified and Holy? 'Cause Jesus, the founder of the religious all the haters fling like poo, called men who divorce and remarry 'whore mongers'. When will I hear the 'one man, one woman' hate wagon say something about that?
Hypocrites, all hypocrites, all all all.

[Pirate Smile]

33. You turn every topic into an excuse to spew your hatred of President Obama..

[truth2power]

34. Spew? Hatred? Over the top, much? The poster pointed out

that, by his own words, Pres. Obama believes that marriage is a sacrament. It's reasonable to question why he uses that as a reason to oppose gay marriage, yet on the serial adultery of Newt, he's silent. We should require our president to at least be congruent in his thinking.

That's not spewing. And it's not hatred. Thanks for playing, though.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Is that the woman that looks old enough to be his mother?

That's Newt's wife?:puke:

[mwb970]

38. I thought McCain's wife was cold-looking and offputting.

But my God. This one is even worse. Where do they GET these women?

[jberryhill]

9. Bu she has the best hair helmet on earth

[MrMickeysMom]

14. Is that a HELMET on her head? ...

Or is she glad to see you???



Jeebus! I think she destroyed the Ozone layer with that last can of spray!

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

21. Change the hair to brown and you get the repressed, pot smoking

wife of W!

[blondie58]

27. lol

That is trust

[customerserviceguy]

26. Half Stepford wife, half zombie. n/t

[japple]

40. Check out the shoulder pads!

[applegrove]

12. That couple must have fond memories of Washington and congress ... especially the parking lot!

[era veteran]

15. I will be sick now

[AnotherMother4Peace]

16. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't doing it in the family home while Newt's wife was in

the hospital - what dogs - This is GOP family values? No shame, absolutely no shame.

[nobodyspecial]

18. You have to think like a fundy

He's confessed his sins, so it's all OK now. Can you imagine if Obama engaged in behavior like him or Cain. With Obama, you have a man truly committed to family values.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

23. Newt has delusional, maybe pathological thinking, which explains his cruel behavior,

BUT how this is OK with his GOP constituents, is beyond me.

[OwnedByFerrets]

19. K and R However, you are completely wrong about your

assumption they wont vote for him. You obviously underestimate their stupidity.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

20. You might be right, but I pray you're wrong. I know some Republican have cult like thoughts and

behaviors. But Lord, there's got to be a percentage that realize the hypocrisy of these people.

[Skittles]

22. see I think what they do is their business

problem I have is with repukes constantly going on about FAMILY VALUES and telling me how immoral TEH GAYS are - that's where *I* draw the line

[AnotherMother4Peace]

24. I agree - Newt is pathological in his perception of right & wrong. A scary person to have as leader.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

28. Shhh---not so loud!

Wait until after they're dumb enough to nominate him to bring all of this up.
For now, follow the Bill Clinton "Please don't throw me in the briar patch, Brer Fox" method of discussing Newt.

[DCKit]

30. +1 nt

[sofa king]

35. I don't like that idea.

The Grinch is completely amoral and devoid of conscience. Once he's got a shot at the White House... he'll take it, yo?

Gingrich is poisonous to his own party's reputation, that is for certain. But he is far, far too dangerous to allow him to get the nomination.

Think about what happened when the Germans decided to ice a certain nasty little poop-fiend by appointing him Chancellor. It opened the door of opportunity to him, rather than neutralizing him, because that little corporal did not think within the boundaries of propriety or the law.

That same sort of opportunity is what Newt is angling for right now. As long as he remains a contender among others of his ilk, he damages our opponents more than us.

But if he gets the nomination, the streets will run with blood if that's what Newt thinks it takes to achieve his malign goals.

[MissDeeds]

29. I know it will never happen,

but I wish Cain would say "I'll leave the race because of my adultery when Newt leaves because of his".

[Fuddnik]

31. So, if elected, what will Calista's title be?

First Homewrecker? She knew he was married and abetted his behavior.

[Chan790]

32. The first statement is true, the second is only half-true.

It was Gingrich's first wife, Jackie Battley, that had cancer and was in the hospital, he was visiting her with their children when he served her with divorce papers. Notably, she was his HS geometry teacher and 7 years his senior. He married her just after his 19th birthday, meaning they might have started dating when he was still in HS or very soon after he graduated. It was during his marriage to Battley he had a long-term affair with his later-second-wife, Marianne Ginther, who he married six months after the divorce from Battley was final. He then had the affair with Callista Bisek starting in the mid-1990s and lasting through the Clinton impeachment trial. He married Bisek 6 months after his divorce from Ginther was final. This divorce also demonstrates his crassness though, he asked for the divorce on Mother's Day (What a great way to ruin the special day of the mother of your children?!) and there are rumors that the fact that she has MS factored into this divorce.

See, Newt places a high value on the appearance of health in his spouse...you can't be first lady and be sick. Also, women are clearly an marriage-accessory to Newton Gingrich, being unmarried might hurt his chances to be electable. He jumps from one marriage to the next rapidly.

According to one former staffer, he said of Battley "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer."

[Nancy Waterman]

36. If Callista had an affair with a married man

That will probably be more offensive to the electorate than Newt's serial adultery, which is old news.
People expect the First Lady to be pristine, and I think they will be less likely to overlook this one.
When this comes out, the campaign will become very painful for Callista. It just shows what a self-absorbed,
pompous buffoon he is that he went ahead and ran with this baggage in the marriage.

on edit: I just realized you meant her affair with Newt!! Nonetheless, people have not focused on this aspect of the story - that SHE had an affair with a married man. Mostly it has been about him.

[Beacool]

37. Naaahhhh, that's not possible.

They belong to the party of family values. The cheaters and tramps are all on the Democratic side.

:rofl:

[southernyankeebelle]

39. It's funny how the republican party will forgive this scum yet can't find it

in their heart to forgive Clinton. What a double standard.

[totodeinhere]

43. Isn't that a two-way street? I wonder how many Democrats who are criticizing Newt

over his moral failings wanted to give Clinton a pass? I just think it's human nature to be more lenient toward someone from your own party.

[wisteria]

41. The so called "Family voters" only care about adulterers when they are Democrat.

Being a Republican cleanses them of all sin as long as they support the "ideals" they consider important.

[totodeinhere]

42. Reagan was married twice, once less than Newt. And he cheated on Jane Wyman with Nancy Davis.

Yet he was elected twice. So what is the standard? Are two marriages and one adultery acceptable, whereas more than that are not?

Personally, I would leave Newt's moral failings alone. We have plenty to get him on based upon his stands on the issues.

[quakerboy]

44. Umm...

I dont think that is strictly true. Seems like most of our presidents have had their little indiscretions. Heck, O may be the first one in office to keep it strictly inside the marrage, ever.

Just most of them have kept it a bit more quiet, untill much later, rather than having it be a well known pre-existing condition