TOON: GOP Magnifying Glass

[ellisonz]

Brilliant

[HopeHoops]

1. Bingo.

[SixthSense]

2. family values voters gonna love this next one

Didn't he serve divorce papers on one of his ex-wives while she was in the hospital? I don't see him surviving a prime-time rehash of that event.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. I believe it was his first wife.

[ellisonz]

4. He divorced his wives twice when they became ill.

1. Gingrich started dating Jackie, who was to be his first wife, when he was a 16 year old in high school, she was his geometry teacher (you can't make this stuff up), 7 to 9 years his senior. They married in 1962. She's the one he, allegedly, famously, served divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery.

2. Gingrich reportedly had girlfriends (plural) during his unsuccessful run for Congress in the mid 70s. That's when one of the women came forward and said that Gingrich liked to have oral sex because then he could deny having "slept" with the woman.

3. In 1981, Gingrich marries his second wife, Marianne, who he started dating while still married to his first wife, Jackie. Gingrich asked her to marry him before he was even divorced.

4. 1999, Gingrich meets third wife, Callista, 26 years his junior, while still married to second wife, Marianne. Second wife is diagnosed with MS, Gingrich divorces her and marries third (remember that the first wife had surgery for cancer when he divorced her - it's at least an interesting coincidence). He allegedly already had asked wife number three to marry him before he asked wife number two for the divorce.

http://minor-ripper.blogspot.com/2011/11/timeline-of-gingrichs-affairs-marriages.html

He's a serial adulterer. He also converted from Southern Baptism to Catholicism in 2009.

[supernova]

5. He also doesn't want to

care for them in any meaningful way. The minute she needs him for health reasons he suddenly splits. I can't think of anything more childish. Well, I can, but bugging out on a sick spouse is lower than a snake's belly.

If I were Callista, I'd be praying I never get sick.

[ellisonz]

6. Start calling him Pig Newton.

Which is an insult to pigs :rofl:

[pkz]

7. in the hospital with cancer...great values there

[Jim Lane]

8. Don't forget the impeachment hypocrisy.

At the time he was leading the impeachment charge when Clinton's adultery was revealed, Gingrich was himself committing adultery. I forget which wife he was cheating on at that time (one loses track).

Of course, in terms of winning the nomination, he might benefit if the wingnuts are reminded that he played a major role in the attack on Bill Clinton. It's only the sensible people who would recoil at the hypocrisy. As Jon Huntsman is discovering, sensible people don't constitute a significant bloc in the Republican primary electorate.