Ex-wife: Newt's too busy getting rich to run for president

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Ex-wife: Newt's too busy getting rich to run for president
By Justin Elliott

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Ex-wife: Newt's too busy getting rich to run for president

Esquire's John H. Richardson has an epic profile of Newt Gingrich that features extensive interviews with Marianne Gingrich, Newt's second wife and the woman he divorced in 2000 to marry an aide who is 23 years his junior.

Despite the recent hype, Marianne does not believe Newt is really serious about running for president. Why not? He's too busy making lots and lots of money. Here's Esquire:

He wants to run for president.

***** She gives a jaundiced look. "There's no way," she says. She thinks he made a choice long ago between doing the right thing and getting rich, and when you make those choices, you foreclose other ones. "He could have been president. But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don't like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new ... you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way."

more:
http://www.salon.com/news/newt_gingrich/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/08/10/marianne_gingrich_on_newt_gingrich
http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-0910

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1. The Party of Family Values, according to Newt Gingrich,

It's which family you're cheating on that becomes the problem............

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2. I'm confused.

She's saying the right thing is to color your past up and run for President? :shrug:

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3. "He could have been president...." Well so she says. And maybe even thinks.

But it seems to me that if Newt could have been president, he would be. He would not have passed up the opportunity. Truth is, it is hard to see WHEN it is that he could have been President. Certainly not in 1996 or 2000. Hard to see when since then.