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Incoming US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich-R-Ga. (R) sits with his wife, Marianne (C) and his mother, Kathleen during a church service 04 January, 1995, in Washington, POOL / AFP / Getty Images ...
Then she disappeared from the public area for the next year and a bit, remaining invisible even as her husband surged to head the Republican polls in December 2011.
To me, Marianne?s withdrawal from view suggested that her divorce settlement had been topped up and that a new more satisfactory arrangement had been reached. Evidently no, for now she?s back, threatening more revelations in a TV interview tonight.
For those who missed it the first time, here?s the most lurid anecdote from that December 2010 piece. It purports to have occurred in May 1999 at the time of Marianne?s simultaneous discovery of Gingrich?s affair with Calista Bisek and her own diagnosis with multiple sclerosis:
[Marianne] called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. ??I can?t handle a Jaguar right now.? He said that many times. ?All I want is a Chevrolet.??
The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, ?How do you give that speech and do what you?re doing??
?It doesn?t matter what I do,? he answered. ?People need to hear what I have to say. There?s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn?t matter what I live.?
The party?s primary schedule makes it unlikely that a candidate will amass the needed 1,144 delegates before late May or even June, says John Avlon.
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davidfrum RT @joshtpm: GOP message on birth control that birth control is for sluts just doesn't seem like good general electorate messaging.
davidfrum RT @fivethirtyeight: Lots of working-class whites in swing states, esp. in the Midwest. If Romney underachieves among that group, electoral math is tough.
davidfrum RT @IngrahamAngle: Gerson: If Andrew Sullivan is correct, and Obama set a grand trap for the GOP, then Obama is a Machiavellian monster.
davidfrum RT @politicalwire: VIDEO flashback: Whitney Houston's rendition of National Anthem in 1991 may be best ever done... pwire.
davidfrum RT @johntabin: Point of auctioning a dinner isn't to efficiently support a charity, it's to be better-known as a supporter of the charity.
Santorum has been declared the winner in Missouri and Minnesota. In Minnesota, Romney is currently trailing Santorum by almost 30 points and Ron Paul (!) is ahead of Romney by 10.
Getting annoyed with the word ?Lin? prefacing every word in the English language? You?re not alone. The Daily Show?s Larry Wilmore took on the hysteria that?s driving him linsane.