The ad depicts women secretly voting differently from their husbands, a choice Gingrich said was immoral

Summary

Newt Gingrich blasted a Julia Roberts-led ad encouraging women to vote privately, calling it a sign of the sick values he attributes to Democrats. In a heated exchange with Sean Hannity, he accused the party of promoting dishonesty and moral decay in America, suggesting this reflects a broader erosion of societal integrity. Gingrich, who faced his own scandals, cited Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent split from the Democrats as further proof of disillusionment with what he sees as their corrupt influence.

  • bitwaba@lemmy.world
    48·
    23 days ago

    Throughout his congressional campaign in 1974, Gingrich was having an affair with a young volunteer. An aide who worked with Gingrich throughout the 1970s stated that “it was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie.”
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    In September 1980, according to friends who knew them both, Newt visited Jackie in the hospital the day after she had undergone surgery to treat her uterine cancer; once there, Newt began talking about the terms of their divorce, at which point Jackie threw him out of the room

    In 1993, while still married to Marianne, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, more than two decades his junior.[278] Gingrich was having this affair even as he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury related to Clinton’s own extramarital affair.[279][128] Gingrich filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999, a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

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

    My stepmother was doing her undergrad (and a few years later her law degree) from the University of West Georgia when he was a professor of history there and had started his first congressional campaign. She said literally every woman in school was aware of his affairs with students.

    Moral decay in 2024? This is just yet another year of accusations fueled by projection from the right.

    • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19·
      23 days ago

      Let’s not omit that he got fined $300k for ethics violations in 1997 and was found to have accepted 1.7M in bribes (calling them what they are) from Freddie Mac shortly before Freddie wrecked the economy.

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
      712·
      23 days ago

      Not to belabor the truism that Gingrich is pure scum, but he’s a relevant point in the argument for an age-cap on voting rights.

      Hit 70, you’re done. Go find something else to do, the needs and wants of the Nation are no longer your purview.

      • bitwaba@lemmy.world
        5·
        22 days ago

        Would be nice if he put his money where his mouth is. He’s 81 years old, but I bet he’s still gonna show up Tuesday.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        1·
        21 days ago

        I see what you’re getting at, but we need to be careful here as we’ll be 70 too at some point.

        Under that precedent, gen-Alpha conservicans would likely unanimously vote to have us all thrown into the sea to save on healthcare costs or something. Lmao

        • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          21 days ago

          Yes, and when I and you, and anyone else hits 70, then their time influencing the future is over. That’s a ballgame, folks.

          It’s nothing but pure fucking hubris that keeps these antideluvian fossils in their power stations. Society does not benefit. In fact, progress is constrained as a result.

          So yeah, we will all be old one day. But that doesn’t mean we’re all destined to be sad old narcissists.

          • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
            1·
            21 days ago

            So yeah, we will all be old one day. But that doesn’t mean we’re all destined to be sad old narcissists.

            Right! Of course not! My point is that in this case, age isn’t the problem, it’s still just narcissistic power hungry jerks voting. They just so happen to curse us with their longevity.

            So taking voting rights away for all after a certain age wouldn’t serve us, but if overall we keep voting in altruistic ways, we can still do a lot of good into our later years.

            If you mean they shouldn’t be in office calling the shots for us at that age though, I TOTALLY agree.

            I think more people will trend against that with time, and we will kill the “you lean more right with age” myth once and for all. :)

            Wishing you a long and prosperous life, BTW. <3