Newt Gingrich, defender of traditional marriage, was still married to his second wife—and still fucking the living shit consecrated host out of Callista, then his “devout Catholic” mistress, now his “devout Catholic” third wife —when he asked his second wife for an open marriage:

Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich. In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an “open marriage” arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife. She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich…. “He wanted an open marriage and I refused.” Marianne described her “shock” at Gingrich’s behavior, including how she says she learned he conducted his affair with Callista “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington.”

Technically you’re not asking your wife for an open marriage if you’ve already been fucking another woman for six years. You’re presenting your wife with an ultimatum. That doesn’t make you a proponent of open marriage, Newt, it makes you a CPOS.

But Newt’s got a new campaign slogan: “Screw as I say, not as I screw.”

And then there’s this:

She said Newt moved for the divorce just months after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, with her then-husband present. “He also was advised by the doctor when I was sitting there that I was not to be under stress. He knew,” she said. Gingrich divorced his first wife, Jackie, as she was being treated for cancer. His relationship with Marianne began while he was still married to Jackie but in divorce proceedings, Marianne said.

So, Callista, how’s your health?

62 replies on “Newt Gingrich: Doing Monogamish All Wrong”

  2. That means Callista was up for it, too. I LOVE the idea of the wanna-be conservative standard-bearer, Mr. Tea Bag, being an open-marriage Beltway lobbyist — the exact opposite of everything they supposedly want.

  3. I’d love to see a Savage Love with letters from Newt (is it appropriate to divorce my wife who has cancer and MS to take up an open relationship with someone who has Parkinsons and someone with Lou Gehrigs?), Santorum (I’m not sure my dog is GGG enough), Romney (how should I raise the underpants issue with a prospective mistress?), and Paul (is my wife really in support of libertarian views if she won’t peg me?).

  5. Wow, you’re fast Dan. I was about to write you to see if your endorsement of our first (openly) monogamish president would be forthcoming.

  7. I love the ‘I’m not going to talk about this, but my daughters are more than glad to come chat about this intrusion into family things more than a decade old.’. Newt must be a member of the First Church of the Here and Now.

  10. Well, there’s this gem from the current issue of The New Yorker:
    “To pursue Marianne Ginther, he had to abandon the family he’d put at the center of his campaign, infuriating even his former partisans. And with Callista he put himself in another impossible situation that he’d need to fight his way out of. According to Ginther, he asked Callista to marry him before he told Ginther he wanted a divorce—while he was championing the Personal Responsibility Act. “He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected,” Ginther said.”

    Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/…

  11. Maybe, but not necessarily, Fnarf- he could have asked for an open marriage banking on Marianne then asking for a divorce.

    If Callista -was- OK with sharing him, though, then maybe they now have an open marriage. Wouldn’t that be a fun fact to watch the Tea Party trip over?

    Not that I really think he has a chance at the nomination, but I’m just curious how deep the double standard & hypocrisy go.

  12. @12 I dunno, if the divorce had already been started when they began seeing each other, that doesn’t seem too CPOS to moi even if he was still married at the time.

  14. He’s just rocking it old testament style. Callista is lucky he didn’t decide to dismember her and send her parts to the various tribes of Israel.

  17. @17 – very devout, apparently, if you have the pope’s tacit approval, which the choir singer Callista apparently does. She was up there on the altar of the National Shrine on Christmas Eve looking ever so pious while the papal nuncio from Rome looked on. Hypocrisy of the highest order on stage for all the world to see.

  18. Dan, you “consecrated host” slam is beyond the pale. It’s one thing to disagree with Catholics. It’s another to insult the heart of their faith.

  20. Could he be any more disgusting? That those holier than thou Republicans would even consider a man of such low character for POTUS is apalling. Selfish, selfish, selfish!

  23. I am sure the christian voters will forgive him. They are conservative christians when it comes to attacking other people’s lives, liberal christians when looking at one of their own; conservative christians when they want to judge, liberal christians when they want to excuse.

  24. Dan, when will you redefine Newt for us? (I wouldn’t want to touch Gingrich, out of respect of his half-sister, who unfortunately shares his surname…)

  25. I will just quote Mr. Joe Jervis, “Newt Gingrich would like to remind everybody that marriage is between one man and one woman whom you abandon riddled with cancer on her hospital bed while you fuck the shit out of your mistress.”

  30. tniel, he really is a whore, in every aspect of his life: Personal, political, business – you name it. He cheats on his spouses, he changes religions to further his political career, he operates a whole array of sleazy businesses, operated just this side of legal, and designed to separate the suckers from their money in the most efficient way.

    Newt Gingrich is a whore.

  31. the moral, of course, is that CPOS gotta cheat.

    and if you cheat with a married man don’t be surprised when he cheats on you.

    however you try to sugar coat it; monogamishit or what ever, cheaters are CPOS…..

  32. I had a friend who was shocked, SHOCKED when his wife cheated on him. But he had gone into this marriage fully aware that she had been married before and had carried on multiple affairs during her first marriage. If someone cheats, it’s a strong indicator they’ll cheat again. And the human capacity for denial is immense.

  33. @19 Just in case you’re being serious, the Catholic belief that a cracker ACTUALLY FO REALZ turns into the “Body of Christ” is so fucking laughably retarded that it’s every rational person’s obligation to ridicule it.

  34. We all know that Gingrich is a Benedict Arnold in the bedroom…old news. What should be more talked about is how none of that matters to the American proto-Fascists known as the Tea Party. The TP is infected with an entrenched ‘groupthink’ who’s foundation has been laid by the Evangelical community since the 80’s, using religion’s ability to inculcate a heard-like mentality; then Fox News began to harness that heard by making them feel like rugged individualists (btw, groupthink happens on the ‘Left’ as well, wtf was that cult-like ‘Human-Mic’?!). The real story is that their ‘groupthink’ has festered to the point that they will support anybody who vigorously tows their vitriolic party line, regardless of what tomfoolery, skullduggery…or facts…get in the way. These are dangerous times when facts and history matter less than bluster and baloney…

  35. Was Callista included in the conversation when Newt asked for an open marriage? If Marianne had agreed would they still be married with Callista on the side? We’ll return tomorrow for these stories and more, As The Newt Turns.

  38. Wow, the comments on the abc article are amazing. People are actually reading this article about Newt and replying with various versions of, “Yeah, but who is this shady Obama guy really.”

  40. So the institution of marriage can survive douchebags like Gingrich who repeatedly abandon wives with health problems to marry their latest mistress. But somehow society would collapse if the SAME legal recognition afforded to Wife #3 / Mistress #2 were given to a committed same-sex couple who had been together for DECADES, in sickness and in health.

    What the fuck are the Republicans thinking? At a certain point, the incredible inconsistencies in their positions must cause them to abandon reason altogether. Which is probably why the GOP is anti-science, come to think of it.

  42. My brother and his partner have been together for 34 years.

    Better record than Newt (unless you add all his wives up together.)

    And yet, my brother and his partner are denied marriage in their state, thanks to hypocrites like Gingrich.

  43. Calista was banging him for six years while he was married. That suggests she was more than a little “OK” with sharing him.

    I think the more shocking part of all this is that Newt brought this up just months after she was diagnosed with MS. What a scumbag. Sounds like he brought up the whole “open marriage” idea as a prelude to dumping her ass.

  44. Jessica Grose over at Slate knows about the debauched state of Republican “morals”:

    “Unless Marianne has photographic evidence of Newt drop kicking several puppies and then peeing on Ronald Reagan’s headstone, I don’t think the interview [with his ex-wife Marianne] will make much of a difference.”

  45. “She said Newt moved for the divorce just months after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, [and] Gingrich divorced his first wife, Jackie, as she was being treated for cancer.”

    See, there’s the problem. His wives keep breaking, so he keeps having to get new ones. Pre-emptively.

  47. I think this should be a warning to Callista, that she needs to lay off the Aqua Net huffing that she is using as an excuse for her helmet hair. Changing her hair style will help her health, and avoid Gingrich from divorcing her when she is diagnose with hairspray toxicity.

  48. According to the heart association journal, Circulation:

    “—Who’s most at risk for sudden death related to sex? Married men having affairs, often with younger women in unfamiliar settings. Those circumstances can add to stress that may increase the risks, evidence from a handful of studies suggests.”

    If true, we’d better damn well know in advance about Newtie’s health and who his VP pick would be.

  49. OK, so these candidates are detestable hypocrites. Big surprise there!! That they openly aspire to be commander and chief of the largest state sponsor of terror in the world is what they should be criticized for. They should all be dismissed on that basis alone, Obama included. Paul is the only one amongst them that does not support foreign wars and military bases. I don’t care about his personal life and I don’t believe he cares what you do with yours..

  50. @46,

    The fact that he is a Victorian London high steaming pile of horseshit cheat, during the period he was going after Clinton, is bad enough. To abandon his long time wife just when she would need him most (again) is absolutely inexcusable. Joe Walsh and Gingrich aren’t going to support their nearest and supposed dearest, let alone anyone else. Under no condition should that scum be allowed back in office.

    Abso-fucking-lutely inexcusable. I only wish Gingrich could stay in the race long enough for me to vote against him in the primary (cause that is about as close as I’m going to get to shitting down his throat).

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