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Wasn’t one of his wives dying of cancer at the time he was cheating on her?

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Yup. According to Wikipedia:

According to L. H. Carter, Gingrich’s campaign treasurer, Gingrich said of Jackie: “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.”[269][270] Newt has denied saying it.[266]

That was his first wife he cheated on. But his second wife got the same treatment:

Gingrich filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999, a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.[280]

He met his current wife because she was a House staffer, and carried on another affair while impeaching Bill Clinton over… well. you know. That marriage has lasted 20+ years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

Isn’t it always the case that the most vocal people about moral issues are also the ones with the longest “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia?

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As a man that stuck with a partner after they got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Fuck newt gingrich

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Thats a name I could do without hearing ever again. One of the main proponents of the “my way or go fuck yourself” politics that we are now stuck with…

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Yup, I had to laugh when a lot of future magabrainz, but who called themselves teabaggers at the time, were telling each other and anyone else that would listen that Obama was so “divisive”. What they really meant was that Obama was a nKLANGer, as well as being uppity, oops, I mean, “arrogant”, as they would update it.

Meanwhile, for anyone that cared to look would easily know that the two people most responsible for any division in the country were Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. Newt actually had classes on sowing division.

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You missed the opportunity to call Obama a Clanker with your censorship. Roger-Roger.

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AT LEAST. He may have already cheated on his third wife and it simply hasn’t been made public.

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didn’t he die already and why not

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Hell: "We already took henry kissinger! Bitch, talk to heaven or keep him yourself! "

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