Newt Gingrich Marriage Timeline

1962: Newt married Jackie Battley on June 19, 1962.
1963: Newt's daughter Kathy was born.
1966: Newt's daughter Jackie Sue was born.
1980: Newt met Marianne Ginther in January 1980.
1980: Jackie and Newt separated in April 1980.
1981: Jackie Battley and Newt Gingrich's divorce was finalized in February 1981.
1981: Six months later Newt married Marianne Ginther on August 8, 1981.
1987: Marianne and Newt separated in June 1987.
1993: Newt and Callista Bisek began their affair in November 1993.
1993: Marianne and Newt reconciled in late 1993/early 1994.
1999: Newt and Marianne separated in May 1999 and filed for divorce in July.
1999: Marianne and Newt reached a settlement in their divorce case.
2000: Marianne and Newt's divorce was finalized in April 2000.
2000: Callista Bisek and Newt announced their engagement.
2000: Newt married Callista Bisek on August 18, 2000.

Maggie Haberman: "Newt Gingrich addressed his multiple nuptials and admitted affairs more head-on than he has to date, telling the Christian Broadcast Network that he sought God's 'forgiveness' for the things he did wrong and that he now has a 'great' marriage." So far.

 Hey, Collista, watch your step and whatever you do, keep him on a short leash. He's such a ketch...and it rhymes with vetch.

 
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 I sure wouldn’t want to be Collista...She’d better keep her bags packed! For goodness sakes, Collista, don't argue with him; keep a gun handy at all times.

Finally: Hey Newtie! Keep God out of your messy life...He's not a marriage counselor nor a collector of wives. Jeez! Couldn't you just bonk 'em and be on your way? Look at the paperwork you could have avoided...the trees, the trees!

oh never mind...

Source: Maggie Haberman. "Newt Gingrich: 'I was doing things that were wrong.'" Politico.com. 3/08/2011.

    Newt when asked how he could be unfaithful and give a speech on family values: "It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."

Oh, you fat, ugly pig! and those are your good points.

Source: John H. Richardson. "Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican." Esquire.com. 8/10/2010.

AP: "In 1994, Gingrich responded to reports he'd had extramarital affairs while running a family-values campaign in 1978 by saying, "In the 1970s, things happened."
How profound.

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Is this the epitome of a slug or am I being too kind?
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Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening,'

and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

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Germany Cuts Off Its Nose

By Joe Nocera
     Op-Ed Columnist, Daily Beast

“Lords of Finance,” Liaquat Ahamed’s magisterial 2009 history of the events that led first to the Great Depression and then to the Second World War, is, necessarily, a book about policy mistakes. Central bankers and Treasury secretaries, presidents and prime ministers: all of them are locked into their own economic and political orthodoxies.

Each is certain that his is the only sensible course of action. Crippled by their blinders, they consistently make economic choices that appear to us, nearly a century later, to be insane but to them seemed completely sensible.

Earl Wilson,

The New York Times                                                                                

Can you just imagine what they'll write about us a century from now?
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