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Someone actually asked the question that has been on a lot of people’s minds since Newt Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne, spilled the beans that Newt actually asked her about having an open marriage (after boinking his mistress and future wife Callista for years). Marianne didn’t agree, so Newt, who had dogged Bill Clinton about WH blow jobs during the same period the former House Speaker was also receiving extramarital servicing, asked for a divorce.
But is Newt swinging with wife #3?
Today Swingrich — who said that gay marriage = paganism — says those glory days are all in the past now that he’s a grandpa (I didn’t know that life milestone means zipper issues go by the wayside — after all, nothing stopped late South Carolina U.S. Senator, the 100-year-old, nasty Strom Thurmond from earning a rep on the Hill for chasing the ladies.
But back to business: Elizabeth Glover and Elizabeth Gorman of Vice.com followed the couple while the Florida primary was in high gear and, well, just watch:
When we arrived at the Rosen Centre, headquarters of Gingrich’s Florida campaign, it was mostly journalists taking photos of each other and tweeting. By the time the polls closed, supporters began to shuffle onto the risers behind the podium. The choice of music went from surprisingly celebratory to downright weird. Who knew Newt was such a Duck Sauce fan? The former speaker was introduced by Richard Crotty, the former mayor of Orange County, who told us that “money is the mother’s milk of politics and when you get outspent 17 million to five million in a state with a lot of media markets, where advertising is very expensive and the bulk of those ads are attack type ads, it’s hard to pull off a win. And I think that’s what we’ve seen here tonight.”
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Anyone think that Callista looks like a wax figure from certain angles?
We are Family? You’re kidding right?
I love how you could see the uncomfortable look on Callista’s face.
Callista, honey, switch to a more natural shade of blonde that doesn’t make your dark roots so obvious. And put on a few pounds while you’re at it — subcutaneous fat smooths out wrinkles and will soften the really harsh lines of your large-hootered face.
Wow, either Newt’s realized his ability to do wife trade-ins has severely diminished, or Callie has some unbelievablely airtight hold on him. This is around the time in each of his previous marriages when he started to tryouts for replacements, but unless he’s a total moron ruled by his dick (which cannot be ruled out here; see also: Edwards, John) he won’t be holding these tryouts while he’s running for President as the Not-Mitt.
For the rest of my like I’ll never be able to hear/see/think about that phrase without seeing Gene Hackman in a dress.
As for Newtie and Callista, (Ha! Callista Flockhart. Synchronicity), please. That’s as obvious as Marcus Bachmann isn’t it?
Strom had to-die-for hair, simply irresistible.
strom was a unique man and one of the very few exceptions, almost all men lose their testosterone at neut’s age and while a man might still perform he does it less often, with less vigor and desires it less
this is why it’s easy for neut to claim he’s over it, sort of like it’s easy to say “you shouldn’t have pre-marital sex” when you’re already married yourself, even though you yourself might have had said pre-marital sex before you yourself was married, why “now you see the light and those things shouldn’t be done” dontcha know
if neut is verile he’s probably getting hormone replacement therapy (read “he’s doing anabolic steroids”}
Just guessin that Callista’s the one playin around this time.
Nah, blue pill.
Strom was before it.
From MOST angles.
But not ALL angles. Let’s be fair.
So what angle have you seen her from.
On second thought, please do NOT answer that Q.
If Newt is doing steroids, they’re all going to his stomach. Seems to have put on weight since the campaign started.
Let’s remember Newt is 68. I’m only 60 and, although I’m quite handsome and charming, I ain’t been chasing cars for quite a while. Oh, I still watch as they go by. But………
Not gonna do it. But you know I live in Atlanta, don’t you? Fifteen miles from Reinhardt College, in fact.
Never admit that. You just lost all your social value. BTW, I’m 60 also. Still beating the ladies off with a stick. Just not my stick.
Condolences.
Geez, too much male info on this thread…
Not at all……I have a ’78 vintage Corvette and a boat.
Besides, I’m married 41 years. Cheaper to keep her.
Damn. There’s that Corvette again. How do we know you really have that car, and aren’t just faking it to make the rest of us jealous?
I was a boy scout and am a “carguy”. We never lie about our cars.
Now you’re forcing him to fake a photo on flikr.
I believe you about the Corvette but the boy scout thing is a little iffy.
Jesse Helms used to kiss Strom on top of his head and dribble his backy juice all over him.
Do you have a link for that? Better still, a YouTube; pics worth 1000 words & all that. *g*
I don’t buy the Boy Scout thing for a second. Boy Scouts don’t steal Corvettes!
That’s the first time I heard the one about the Pagans. It’s definitely the kind of ridiculous stuff Newt comes up with. There is no way I’m even going to think about his sex life. When he was Speaker I remember my father saying; “Newt has a way with words but has nothing to say”.
Yecchh!
Still haven’t figured out the short version so I’ll retype the longer one.
When my MIL was in her dotage and in a nursing home, my husband & I would wheel her to the end of a long wide hall and talk with each other, while our toddler son (dressed in sailor suit) would race up & down the hall. This dapper 50 or 60-something gentleman, attracted by the signs of life, came walking down to us & joined the conversation with a charming Irish lilt.
I wondered what he was doing in a nursing home for about 2 minutes after which I realized that though every word coming out of his mouth was English, the way they were strung together made no sense at all.
That is Newt. Though without the charming Irish lilt.
Don’t be silly. Use your forensic assets: Strom’s hair + Lott’s testimonial of his career. You do know the etymology of testimonial I’m sure.
Coincidentally, today being Candlemas, I was just now listening to a beautiful interpretation of Hildegard von Bingen by Anonymous 4 on YouTube. (If you don’t have very good headphone$, I weep 4U).
Speakers on my puter suck.
I do own a HvB (once was into schtick of tracking down female composers) CD. Too early for me. I prefer more lush music.
Lovely. Did you see Vision, the biopic about Hildegard von Bingen? Highly recommended.
heh… that footage is worth watching. Not too long, and it made Calista cringe to be asked that question. Guilty, much, Calista? Since essentially it was due to Calista’s *knowing* connivance & shenanigans that Newters was in an open marriage with Wife #2, even though Marianne Gingrich wasn’t asked, didn’t know and didn’t agree.
But alas, I almost forgot the cardinal rule: IOKIYAR.
Eh? Newt’s such a despicable scumbag, but let’s face it: if Newt’s doing the hokey-pokey with someone younger right now, the media will turn their heads and look the other way, methinks. I doubt that he’d get “busted” until later. The media’s pretty much given Newt a big “pass” anyway for his serial philandering.
I don’t respect Jon Edwards for what he did, nor do I condone his behavior. However, had Edwards been running as a Republican, he would’ve never been treated the way he was. And in fact, I maintain that he’s facing that trial because the 1% were mightily pissed off with the platform Edwards ran on.
So I wouldn’t expect Newt to be busted for any screwing around at this point. And I certainly don’t believe a frickin’ word that comes out his mouth.
JMHO, of course.
If she wasn’t asked, didn’t know and didn’t agree, they weren’t in an open marriage — Newt was just cheating.
And that shit, Donald Trump, endorsed Willard, after all.
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What a turd; too cowardly to play kingmaker and put a REAL republican into the White House.
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