Newt Gingrich: Conservative Feminist Evaluates Mr. Speaker
Newt Gingrich: through the eyes of a conservative feminist
A conservative feminist has a few thoughts on Newt Gingrich. Ouch!
DOES CHARACTER MATTER?
What a difference a decade makes. Actually, make that 16 years.
In 1994, Newt Gingrich was a conservative sweetheart. One could argue that in 2010–after sitting with Nancy Pelosi on the couch, Dede Scozzafava and other Newtisms–Gingrich is no longer very conservative, no longer a sweetheart.
We present a feminist’s view of Newt Gingrich.
Actually, it’s a Red State feminist’s view of Newt Gingrich.
From Newt for President? Ask His Second Wife:
Red State Feminists are conservative, no doubt about it. But RSFs are not seduced by every conservative blowhard that thinks he should be president. Case in point? Newt Gingrich.
Yes, when we last met Newt, he was shutting down the government in a stand-off with Bill Clinton, then resigning his seat in disgrace under ethics charges which were upheld. Today he has resurrected himself as an eminence grise of the Republican Party, with bold ideas for a renaissance not only of the Party, but also of his own political career. He even has presidential aspirations.
But, oh, the baggage that man carries! We are all SO DARN TIRED of conservative leaders whose personal lives look like something from the nether regions of Dante’s Inferno. Newt has the unpleasant distinction of dumping two wives for young aides he charmed as their boss. UGH. Furthermore, his second wife, Marianne Gingrich, married to him for eighteen years, had just received a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis when she got word he wanted to divorce her. In fact, according to Marianne, “He’d already asked [his now-third wife] to marry him before he asked me for a divorce. Before he even asked.” Q: “He told you that?” “Yeah . . . ” Not only that, but while Marianne was away visiting relatives, the soon-to-be third wife “was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed”!
The Esquire interview goes on to relate,
He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
…and then, the plot thickens–and it’s not pretty.
NOTE: When told about this article someone in the office responded, “Bravo! I’m glad someone wrote about this. You don’t treat a wife like this. In don’t care what party he’s from. It just shows a total lack of character.”
Uh oh, Newt.
We’re told by the Left to “leave a politician’s private life” out of the equation–especially if the private life we’re talking about happens to belong to a Progressive.
Okay, fair enough.
Dede Scozzafava.
Two words which should strike the name “Newt Gingrich” from any conservative’s list of those to support for president. If that doesn’t do it, try “Sitting with Nancy Pelosi on Al Gore’s green couch to pimp for cap and trade.”
Those are a few reasons why the bloom is off the rose for Mr. Gingrich. And readers don’t have to be feminists to agree.
by Mondo Frazier
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