Gingrich is just a despicable human being. Always ...

2012-01-26T20:18:46.517-05:00

Gingrich is just a despicable human being. Always has been, his claims of being a pious Christian notwithstanding.

Wasn't it obvious that either he was lying or ...

2012-01-26T12:22:43.891-05:00

Wasn't it obvious that either he was lying or his "close personal friends" would have been lying if they'd actually existed?

I may have said it before elsewhere, but I'll say it again, here: the problem isn't that Newt Gingrich asked his wife for an open marriage--that's what you're supposed to do if you want to be in an open relationship--the problem is that he asked after he'd already begun having an affair, which is exactly what you're not supposed to do in one of these things. What he was supposed to do was go to his wife first and ask her, "How do you feel about an open marriage?" and if she kiboshed the idea, drop it, and if she was open to it, discuss the rules they would follow re: paramours. Now, those things hardly ever work out, but that isn't the point: the point is that people who are in ostensibly-successful open marriages all agree that this is how you do things in a relationship built on trust and mutual respect, versus how you do things when you're a seedy, nutsless philanderer who (has been)/(is about to be) caught stepping out,

Not that Newt's second wife should have expected anything else, having been there and done that from the other side when Newt was cheating on his first wife with her.

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