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riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 01:34 PM Jan 2012

The Swinging Days of Newt Gingrich

(Fascinating 1984 Mother Jones article. The excerpt is about Newt getting a BJ in the car and nearly discovered by his daughters.)

The Swinging Days of Newt Gingrich


http://motherjones.com/politics/1984/11/newt-gingrich-shining-knight-post-reagan-right

<snip> "Meanwhile, Gingrich's own behavior was painting a different picture. During or soon after the 1974 campaign, several of his closest advisors realized he was having an affair. After the campaign, Gingrich seriously considered divorce. He and Jackie went to see a marriage counselor, however, and finally decided to work it out.

This was not an isolated incident, according to others who were close to Gingrich at the time. One former aide describes approaching a car with Gingrich's daughters in hand, only to find the candidate with a woman, her head buried in his lap. The aide quickly turned and led the girls away. Another former friend maintains that Gingrich repeatedly made sexual advances to her when her husband was out of town. On one occasion, he visited under the guise of comforting her after the death of a relative, and instead tried to seduce her. In certain circles in the mid-1970s, Gingrich was developing a reputation as a ladies' man."

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The Swinging Days of Newt Gingrich (Original Post) riverwalker Jan 2012 OP
Those would be the same daughters he sent over to ABC yesterday to hedgehog Jan 2012 #1
yes, they would have been 10 and 7 years old riverwalker Jan 2012 #4
Newt the "ladies' man"? The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2012 #2
but he was such a stud back then.... riverwalker Jan 2012 #3
Brain bleach, please ... Myrina Jan 2012 #5
So all those times I spent some special "personal time" Blue_Tires Jan 2012 #6

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
1. Those would be the same daughters he sent over to ABC yesterday to
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 01:38 PM
Jan 2012

ask that the interview with his ex-wife be suppressed?

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
4. yes, they would have been 10 and 7 years old
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 01:48 PM
Jan 2012

* Linda Kathleen "Kathy" Gingrich Lubbers: Born in 1963.
* Jacqueline "Jackie" Sue Gingrich Cushman: Born in 1966.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
2. Newt the "ladies' man"?
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 01:39 PM
Jan 2012

Eww. Yuk.

What I can't figure out is how there can be any women - any at all - who'd do Newt. How low does your self-esteem have to be for you to accept the blubbery embraces of that pudgy, narcissistic blowhole?

I can't imagine any scenario that would cause me to even have coffee with the guy, let alone climb into bed with his pale, spongy ass. All the money and power in the world wouldn't overcome my gag reflex.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
6. So all those times I spent some special "personal time"
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 02:27 PM
Jan 2012

with "Letters to Penthouse Forum", Newton could have been the author of some of them?!?!?!?

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