Newt Gingrich vehemently called the Matt Gaetz Group “traitors” for upsetting the status quo in the House of Representatives’ quest for a Speaker. Newt knows a thing or two about being a traitor – and a hypocrite.
Newt Gingrich is the quintessential caricature of the status quo politician. Aptly nicknamed, a Newt is a small, slimy amphibian. They are delicate, soft-bodied quadrupeds with permeable skin. Bacterial microbes on the skin of some Newts make a paralyzing poison called tetrodoctoxin.
Newt also knows quite a bit about political hypocrisy. As Speaker of the House from January 4, 1995-January 3, 1999, Newt played a key role in several government shutdowns. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 congressional elections, a reprimand from the House for Newt’s ethics violations, and pressure from Republican colleagues resulted in Newt’s resignation from the Speakership on November 6, 1998. He resigned altogether from the House on January 3, 1999. Political scientists have “credited” Newt with playing a key role in hastening political polarization and partisanship.
Newt withdrew from the presidential race in May 2012 and endorsed the eventual nominee Mitt Romney.
Newt received several draft deferments from the military during the Vietnam War. In 1985 he stated “Given everything I believe, a large part of me thinks I should have ‘gone over’.” ….but not a “large” enough part to actually have gone.
In 1970, Newt joined the history department at West Georgia College, where he spent “little time teaching history.” He coordinated a new environmental studies department in 1976. During his time at the college, he took unpaid leave three times to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, losing twice before leaving the college. Serving professors were not allowed under the rules of the university to run for office. He left the college in 1977 after being denied tenure.
In 2014, Newt sent a letter to Dr. John Koza of National Popular Vote, Inc. endorsing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, under which participating states would award their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote of the United States. (see: www.LigonClanLaw.com “An Invitation to Chaos: Abolish the Electoral College).
According the Science magazine, Newt changed his view on climate change from “cautious skeptic in the late 1980s to believer in the late 2000s to skeptic again during the 2016 campaign.” He must have had difficulty reading the political wind sock.
Perhaps Newt should be nicknamed “Chameleon.”
Newt’s rage at the Gaetz Group for “treason” against a corrupt, cancerous political institution sounds more than a little hypocritical when one considers Newt’s treason against the institution of marriage.
Throughout his congressional campaign in 1974, Newt was having an affair with a young volunteer. An aide who worked with Newt throughout the 1970s stated that “it was common knowledge Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie.” In September 1980, Newt visited Jackie in the hospital the day after her surgery for uterine cancer. Once there Newt began talking about the terms of their divorce, at which point Jackie threw him out of the room. Although Newt’s congressional staff continued to insist in 2011 that Jackie had requested the divorce, court documents from Carroll County, Georgia indicated Jackie had in fact asked a judge to block the divorce, stating that “although she has adequate and ample grounds for divorce she does not desire one at this time and does not admit that this marriage is irretrievably broken.” Apparently Jackie was as much a political animal as Newt.
According to L.H. Carter, Newt’s campaign treasurer, Newt said of Jackie “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.” Following the divorce, Jackie had to raise money from friends in her congregation to help her and the children make ends meet. She later filed a petition in court stating that Newt had failed to properly provide for his family. In 1993, Jackie stated in court that Newt had failed to obey a 1981 court order to pay substantially more support “from the day it was issued.”
In 1993, while still married to second wife Marianne, Newt began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, more than two decades his junior. Newt was having this affair even as he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury related to Clinton’s own extramarital affair. Newt filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999 – a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. On January 19, 2012, Marianne alleged in an interview on ABC’s Nightline that she had declined Newt’s suggestion of an open marriage.
Newt Gingrich seems to have taken Senator John McCain as his political idol. When McCain returned from Hanoi he divorced his wife who had been seriously invalided in a car wreck – and abandoned his children as well.
So, Newt, who’s the traitor and a hypocrite?
And why is the Media even giving this dirtbag air time?
