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kpete

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Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:14 PM Jan 2012

The Rude One Does Newt...

1/20/2012
Moments in the Life of Newt Gingrich from the 1990s:

On September 8, 1995, then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told a crowd of 4,000 believers at the Christian Coalition's "Road to Victory" conference in Washington, D.C. that he "got married when I was very young. And we have two wonderful daughters by that marriage. And I got divorced. Later on, I got remarried. And we have a marriage which has a fair amount of stress, and it's difficult. And I think that's fairly typical of a lot of families. It takes a lot of work, a lot of prayer."

The "stress" he was talking about was that, for two years, he had been putting his penis into the vagina and possibly the mouth and anus of Callista Bisek, a woman who is 23 years younger than him and 14 years younger than his then-wife Marianne.

Gingrich continued, justifying his sexual betrayal as fitting in perfectly with one way of looking at family values. He told his daughters that "we know precisely because it's been hard why you should emphasize family values. Because even when you're emphasizing them, it's hard."

The audience, who by then must have known the whispers about Gingrich's relationship with Bisek, which had been swirling, applauded and cheered. Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition, later said, "Our members are not looking for someone who is perfect...They are looking for someone who will stand up for what they believe in.

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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2012/01/moments-in-life-of-newt-gingrich-from.html

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The Rude One Does Newt... (Original Post) kpete Jan 2012 OP
Remember, he was doing this all the while he was going after Bill Clinton for the same thing. liberal N proud Jan 2012 #1

liberal N proud

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1. Remember, he was doing this all the while he was going after Bill Clinton for the same thing.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:22 PM
Jan 2012


But that is OK with his supporters.



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