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…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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…<\/p>\n
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"We started talking and we never quit until he asked me for a divorce."<\/sup><\/p>\n![\"Jackie](\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2BcvdVeJKII\/Ri1r4z4VFwI\/AAAAAAAAAEI\/zvZtFD0L4gA\/s400\/Jackie_Battley.jpg\" "\\"Jackie")
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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.<\/div>\n
\n He thinks of himself as president, you tell her. He wants to run for president.<\/p>\n 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.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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