Sunday's Doonesbury - Newt's extra baggage

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plus bonus Toles Toon:

[Staph]

1. Thank you, Mr. Trudeau!

There are some scandals mentioned that I have never heard of!

Memo to self -- look up Anne Manning and Kip Carter....

[wakemewhenitsover]

4. I just looked up Kip Carter and found this fascinating (and disgusting) article...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/vanityfair1.html

[annabanana]

11. Long damn article to slog through to find that

Carter tells of a time that Newtie botched the slaughter of a hog (destined for a bbq in the driveway) and refused to chase it down & finish the job.

[Tiggeroshii]

17. appreciate it!

You saved me a lot of trouble

[barbtries]

16. that was excellent.

i knew he was mentally unstable, now i know a lot more about why and how. thank you.

[Fumesucker]

2. The liberal media...

[BlueToTheBone]

3. Who is Kip Carter? Does he have a chlid?

Another mistress? Off to google, I hope it's juicy.

[Hissyspit]

19. Skeletons in the Closet:

http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt's daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. "As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then."

[mdmc]

5. gbt

[Botany]

6. Kit Carter

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/26/politics/gingrich-divorce-file/index.html


Leonard H. "Kip" Carter, a former close Gingrich friend, backed the contention that it was Newt
Gingrich who wanted the divorce.

"He (Gingrich) said, 'You know and I know that she's not young enough or pretty enough to be the
wife of a president,' " Carter, who now lives in South Carolina, told CNN recently, relating the
conversation he had with Gingrich the day Gingrich revealed he was filing for divorce. Carter served
as treasurer of Gingrich's first congressional campaigns.

Carter, who was a fellow history professor when Gingrich taught at West Georgia College in Carrollton,
said he broke off his friendship with Newt Gingrich because of the congressman's treatment of his wife
during the divorce.

[BlueToTheBone]

7. Here is an indepth article by Gail Sheehy

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/vanityfair1.html
The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich
by Gail Sheehy
Vanity Fair September 1995
snip
Along with his amorphous political persona, Newt showed a propensity for the kind of behavior boys boast about in the locker room. Throughout his first campaign he was having an affair with a young volunteer. Dot Crews, who occasionally drove the candidate, says that almost everybody involved in the campaign knew. Kip Carter claims, "We'd have won in 1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her on the desk."

The Gingriches entered marriage counseling, but Newt continued to behave as if other people's rules didn't apply to him. Dot Crews observes, "It was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie. Maybe not on the level of John Kennedy. But he had girlfriends --some serious, some trivial."

One of those women, Anne Manning, became romantically involved with Gingrich during his '76 campaign. The curly-haired young Englishwoman, then married to another professor at West Georgia, Tim Chowns, was an avid volunteer in Newt's Carrollton office. "I did have a relationship with him," she discloses for the first time, "but when it suited him, he would totally blow you off."

In the spring of 1977, she was in Washington to attend a census-bureaus workshop when Gingrich took her to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. He met her back at her modest hotel room. "We had oral sex," she says. "He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, "I never slept with her." Indeed, before Gingrich left that evening, she says, he threatened her: "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying."

She tells me this, she says, because she fears that Newt might become president someday. "I don't claim to be an angel," she says, but she is repelled by Newt's stance as Mr. Family Values. "He's morally dishonest. He has gone too far believing that 'I'm beyond the law.' He should be stopped before it's too late."

Kip Carter, who lived a few doors down from the couple, saw more than he wanted to. "We had been out working a football game --I think it was the Bowdon game-- and we would split up. It was a Friday night. I had Newt's daughters, Jackie Sue and Kathy, with me. We were all supposed to meet back at this professor's house. It was a milk-and-cookies kind of shakedown thing, buck up the troops. I was cutting across the yard to go up the driveway. There was a car there. As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me his little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.

snip...oh my this is a long article and filled with so much of the Newt...he is such scum.

[JPZenger]

12. It makes me lose a little bit of respect for women .. who would have an affair with Newt??

[Quantess]

8. I would like to see one about Frothy the Santorum.

[JPZenger]

13. Frothy saves his precious bodily fluids for making more Santorums.

[alfredo]

9. Newt is the gift that keeps on giving. He is the heir to Rush as the face of the GOP.

[treestar]

10. The bomb stands for Newt?

[Jim Lane]

14. Yes, the bomb for Newt is a symbol Trudeau introduced years ago.

I never thought he'd have occasion to use it again.

Also, if you see a white feather, that's Dan Quayle -- but I doubt that even a deadlocked GOP convention would be desperate enough to turn to him.

[demtenjeep]

15. what kind of woman would "do him" anyway ever? He is a toad has always been a toad

Newt continued to behave as if other people's rules didn't apply to him

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. Hey! Stop insulting TOADS!!

I adore toads! Gentle, funny little creatures...the pet toads I've had even had their own personalities (RIP, Toadsies, my favorite little warty friend.)

Never mention toads and that scummy disgusting prick, Newt in the same sentence!! (OK, I just did, but it was just to make my point!)



TOADS! They're fat and lumpy. What's not to love?