ESQUIRE Interview with Marianne Gingrich August, 2010 -- It's
interesting to see what's transpired since then and now, plus gives a sense of how The Big Interview coming up may go. This is a LONG piece -- but it kept me riveted, with plenty of 
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Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican
~In the twelve years since he resigned in defeat and disgrace, he has been carefully plotting his return to power. As 2012 approaches, he has raised as much money as all of his potential rivals combined and sits atop the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. But just who is Newton Leroy Gingrich, really? An epic and bizarre story of American power in an unsettled age.~
She was married to Newt Gingrich for eighteen years, all through his spectacular rise and fall, and here she is in a pair of blue jeans and a paisley shirt, with warm eyes and a big laugh and the kind of chain-smoking habit where the cigarettes burn right down to the filter — but she's quitting, she swears, any day now.
We're having breakfast in a seaside restaurant in a Florida beach town, a place where people line up in sandals and shorts. This is the first time she's talked about what happened, and she has a case of the nerves but also an air of liberation about her. Since he was a teenager, Newt Gingrich has never been without a wife, and his bond with Marianne Gingrich during the most pivotal part of his career made her the most important advisor to one of the most important figures of the late twentieth century. Of their relationship, she says, "We started talking and we never quit until he asked me for a divorce."
She sounds proud, defiant, maybe a little wistful. You might be inclined to think of what she says as the lament of an abandoned wife, but that would be a mistake. There is shockingly little bitterness in her, and she often speaks with great kindness of her former husband. She still believes in his politics. She supports the Tea Parties. She still uses the name Marianne Gingrich instead of going back to Ginther, her maiden name.
But there was something strange and needy about him. "He was impressed easily by position, status, money," she says. "He grew up poor and always wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself, you know. He has to be historic to justify his life." /snip
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-0910#ixzz1jv7FzDx3
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And yeah, he wasn't running for Prez then, and wasn't on TV so it's a MUCH bigger audience now!
It's interesting that they're saying (or some have said) that the Conservatives are putting morality/family/whatever beliefs after jobs and the economy for this election. They have no choice, really. Unless they pull a savior out of the hat, they have to choose between an adulterer who was busted on ethics violations and a Morman. 