US Election 2012: Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife Marianne gives ‘explosive’ interview

“Anyone who has had that experience understands it is a personal tragedy
filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events,” Kathy
Lubbers and Jackie Cushman said in an open statement to the network.

“We will not say anything negative about our father’s ex-wife. He has
said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have
caused in the past to people he loves.”

South Carolina Republicans are conservative, family-values voters, and an
interview Mr Gingrich’s second wife who previously told The
Washington Post
that her then-husband dumped her by telephone while
she was out of town for her mother’s 84th birthday could have an emotional
impact.

It could also raise uncomfortable memories of Mr Gingrich’s first wife, whom
he dumped while she was suffering from cancer.

Newt Gingrich’s first wife Jackie Battley (Corbis)

The Republican former Speaker of the House of Representatives once reportedly
said of his first wife Mrs Battley: “She’s not young enough or pretty
enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer,”
according to L. H. Carter, his campaign treasurer.

Mrs Gingrich has said Mr Gingrich proposed to her before the divorce from Mrs
Battley was final in 1981, and they were married six months later. Her
marriage to Mr Gingrich ended in divorce in 2000, and Mr Gingrich admitted
he had already taken up with Ms Bisek, a former congressional aide who would
become his third wife.

Newt Gingrich with his first wife Jackie and daughters Jackie Sue and
Kathleen (AP)

The speaker who pilloried President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica
Lewinsky was himself having an affair at the time.

In an interview last year, Mrs Gingrich said: “He believes that what he
says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected.”

Matt Drudge, in The Drudge Report, wrote that ABC’s decision to run the
interview resulted in “a civil war” at the network.

Mr Gingrich is around 10 points behind front-runner Mitt Romney, who has been
married to his wife since 1969.

Drudge did not return an email seeking comment and Mr Gingrich’s campaign
could not be reached.

The timing of the interview sparked an internal debate at the network. An
insider reportedly said that ABC planned to run it on Thursday, but after
the piece was bumped to Friday, Standards and Practices stated that date was
too close to the primary.

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