In the twelve years since he resigned in defeat and disgrace, he has been carefully plotting his return to power. As 2012 approaches, he has raised as much money as all of his potential rivals combined and sits atop the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. But just who is Newton Leroy Gingrich, really? An epic and bizarre story of American power in an unsettled age…
With that brief introduction, John Richardson begins his eight page story of Newt Gingrich pieced together with the help of Gingrich’s second wife – Marianne Gingrich. The story is written casually but it’s as dark a story as you’ll ever read. It’s the story of a very crazy man who wants to be our President…
"We started talking and we never quit until he asked me for a divorce."
It would be silly to post excerpts from this interview. One should read every word to get the full flavor of the man who wants to be our President, and has been working for twelve years to recover from his fall from grace to make it happen. Electing Bush and Cheney was a mistake. Electing Newt Gingrich would be national suicide.He thinks of himself as president, you tell her. He wants to run for president.She gives a jaundiced look. "There’s no way," she says. She thinks he made a choice long ago between doing the right thing and getting rich, and when you make those choices, you foreclose other ones. "He could have been president. But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don’t like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new … you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way"… "He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected," she says. "If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president." Sitting on a bench, she squints against the light. "He always told me that he’s always going to pull the rabbit out of the hat," she says.
I just heard the Newt railing against the current administration as a bunch of cracked socialists and in the same breath extolling the Chinese for their lack of a capital gains task. So, in order to avoid becoming socialists, we need to embrace communism?!? NFW Newt – go elope to Venezuela with Sarah Palin.
This line from the article shouted at me:
“He’s the first person you’ve ever met who speaks in bullet points. In fact, he sometimes more resembles a collection of studied gestures than a mere mortal, so much so that he gives the impression that everything about him is calculated, including the impression that everything about him is calculated. Which can make him seem like a Big Thinker but also like a complete phony — an unsettling combination.”
The interview with Marianne helps to explain Newt, and it’s unsettling that someone like him could be so effective in grabbing power. Our only hope is that his flaws will bring him down before he gets elected.
They should also try to get an interview with Newt’s half-sister — a lesbian he claims to love but has nothing to do with.
A Letter to My Brother Newt Gingrich
Note to Newt: Back Off Harry Knox!
She’s available and more than willing to talk.