Poll: Newt Surges Into First Place

Kate wrote:

outdoor338 wrote: We all make mistakes, my question to Newt, have ya learned from them? I want the better person, who can get us out of this mess..I think Newt can...no more obama.

I don't think we will ever have a President named "Newt," especially when it comes up (and it will, repeatedly) that he divorced one of his wives while she was in the hospital suffering from cancer. People don't forgive that kind of behavior.

Except she did not have cancer.

Here’s how Mother Jones recounted Newt’s hospital visit with Jackie, who was her husband’s former high school math teacher:

Jackie had undergone surgery for cancer of the uterus during the 1978 campaign, a fact Gingrich was not loath to use in conversations or speeches that year. After the separation in 1980, she had to be operated on again, to remove another tumor While she was still in the hospital, according to Howell, “Newt came up there with his yellow legal pad, and he had a list of things on how the divorce was going to be handled. He wanted her to sign it. She was still recovering from surgery, still sort of out of it, and he comes in with a yellow sheet of paper, handwritten, and wants her to sign it.

The source was Lee Howell, a former Gingrich campaign press secretary

http://www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingric ... al_cancer/

Who da thunk we would of had a prez named "Hussein"




Newt has a ring to it, Hey Newt what's for dinner?

Conservation Voice wrote:

Here’s how Mother Jones recounted Newt’s hospital visit with Jackie, who was her husband’s former high school math teacher:

Jackie had undergone surgery for cancer of the uterus during the 1978 campaign, a fact Gingrich was not loath to use in conversations or speeches that year. After the separation in 1980, she had to be operated on again, to remove another tumor While she was still in the hospital, according to Howell, “Newt came up there with his yellow legal pad, and he had a list of things on how the divorce was going to be handled. He wanted her to sign it. She was still recovering from surgery, still sort of out of it, and he comes in with a yellow sheet of paper, handwritten, and wants her to sign it.

The source was Lee Howell, a former Gingrich campaign press secretary

http://www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingric ... al_cancer/

Who are you going to believe, HufPo or their daughter. Chose carefully grasshoppers, the answer says much about who you are.

neptunechimney wrote:

Conservation Voice wrote:

Here’s how Mother Jones recounted Newt’s hospital visit with Jackie, who was her husband’s former high school math teacher:

Jackie had undergone surgery for cancer of the uterus during the 1978 campaign, a fact Gingrich was not loath to use in conversations or speeches that year. After the separation in 1980, she had to be operated on again, to remove another tumor While she was still in the hospital, according to Howell, “Newt came up there with his yellow legal pad, and he had a list of things on how the divorce was going to be handled. He wanted her to sign it. She was still recovering from surgery, still sort of out of it, and he comes in with a yellow sheet of paper, handwritten, and wants her to sign it.

The source was Lee Howell, a former Gingrich campaign press secretary

http://www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingric ... al_cancer/

Who are you going to believe, HufPo or their daughter. Chose carefully grasshoppers, the answer says much about who you are.

Apparently, the soon-to-be ex-wife also verifies this story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
(It's from wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt.)

Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26. In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne Ginther. In 1984, Battley told the Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Battley, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce. Gingrich has disputed that account. In 2011, their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay (which was for the removal of a benign tumor, not cancer), and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce.

Here's another article on the remarkably hypocritical aspect of his life - impeaching a President for lying about an affair, while having an affair.
http://articles.cnn.com/2007-03-09/poli ... M:POLITICS

Didn't he resign from congress under a shroud of controversy too?

Are you ready for some football?

Photo-fish wrote: Didn't he resign from congress under a shroud of controversy too?

This is what Wiki has to say about it...

Gingrich is the only Speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations.[60]

During his term as Speaker, eighty-four ethics charges were filed against him; eighty-three of them were dropped.[61] The remaining charge concerned a 20-hour college course called "Renewing American Civilization" that Gingrich had taught through a tax-deductible foundation, Kennesaw State College Foundation. Allegations of tax improprieties led to two counts "of failure to seek legal advice" and one count of "providing the committee with information which he knew or should have known was inaccurate" concerning the use of a tax exempt college course for political purposes. To avoid a full hearing, Gingrich and the House Ethics Subcommittee negotiated a sanctions agreement. Democrats accused Gingrich of violating the agreement, but it was forwarded to the House for approval.[62][63] On January 21, 1997, the House voted 395 to 28 to reprimand Gingrich, including a $300,000 "cost assessment" to recoup money spent on the investigation.[64][65]

The full committee panel did not agree whether tax law had been violated.[66] In 1999, the IRS cleared the organizations connected with the courses.[67]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

That does not answer my second question.

If Cain is falling...Newt has major issues...Perry has already been written off...and Romney doesn't seem to excite any of you...who's next up?

And photo fish...the answer is YES!