# Fox News Article: "Newt Gingrich's three marriages mean he might make a strong president -- really" **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 21, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220 "2012-01-21T15:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/21 "2012-02-23T21:22:40Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Marriage to Wife #1 = 19 years > Marriage to Wife #2 = 19 years > Marriage to Wife #3 = 12 years and counting So after his fifth term as president, he’ll become a Democrat?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/22 "2012-02-23T23:41:42Z")
He did include one paragraph I agreed with: [QUOTE=Keith Ablow] You can take any moral position you like about men and women who cheat while married, but there simply is no correlation, whatsoever—from a psychological perspective—between whether they can remain true to their wedding vows and whether they can remain true to the Oath of Office. [/QUOTE] Funny how Newt didn’t seem to realize this during the late nineties. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/23 "2012-02-24T02:14:10Z")
Doesn’t that paragraph sort of contradict his whole thesis? He’s saying that Newt’s success at philandering indicates that he may be a good president. Then he says that there’s no correlation whatsoever between the two things. ---
**Author:** ![Ubiquity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a5b964/32.png) [@Ubiquity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ubiquity)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/24 "2012-02-24T03:01:54Z")
Soo If Newt would have changed his preference from God’s greatest creation to the shit smelling end of a hairy gut you guys would be applauding him? (Just askin’) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/25 "2012-02-24T03:03:41Z")
> [@Ubiquity](#): > > Soo If Newt would have changed his preference from God’s greatest creation to the shit smelling end of a hairy gut you guys would be applauding him? (Just askin’) What does this contribute to the debate? I’m giving you a formal warning for being a jerk here. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/26 "2012-02-24T03:27:24Z")
Newt’s been a Lutheran, a Baptist and now a Catholic - he converts when he trades in. I’ll consider voting for him when he dumps this one and converts to Judaism - _that_ would take chutzpah. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/27 "2012-02-24T03:50:01Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Newt’s been a Lutheran, a Baptist and now a Catholic - he converts when he trades in. > > I’ll consider voting for him when he dumps this one and converts to Judaism - _that_ would take chutzpah. No shit; Calista would bite his nutsack off and feed it to her hatchlings. ---
**Author:** ![Ubiquity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a5b964/32.png) [@Ubiquity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ubiquity)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/28 "2012-02-24T04:09:50Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > What does this contribute to the debate? I’m giving you a formal warning for being a jerk here. Fair enough. We can’t compare Newt with someone like Barney Frank? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/29 "2012-02-24T04:22:18Z")
**Ubiquity** , you’re not even making sense. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/30 "2012-02-24T04:37:25Z")
Has Barney Frank cheated on his spouse, divorced, and re-married multiple times? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/31 "2012-02-24T04:44:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Has Barney Frank cheated on his spouse, divorced, and re-married multiple times? No, he hasn’t even been married once, though the Wikipedia article on him says, “On January 26, 2012 it was announced in The Hill that Frank would marry his partner James Ready.” ---
**Author:** ![Ubiquity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a5b964/32.png) [@Ubiquity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ubiquity)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/32 "2012-02-24T05:18:12Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > No, he hasn’t even been married once, though the Wikipedia article on him says, “On January 26, 2012 it was announced in The Hill that Frank would marry his partner James Ready.” Thank you,children. You just made my point. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/33 "2012-02-24T05:24:59Z")
> [@Ubiquity](#): > > Thank you,children. You just made my point. What point? No one is criticising Newt for preferring women! We just worry that he’s been unfaithful rather often while married to one. Has Barney Frank been unfaithful to his partners, men or women? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/34 "2012-02-24T05:43:03Z")
**Ubiquity** , nobody has a clue what you’re saying, and I am pretty sure Barney Frank is not relevant to the topic. If you want to talk about him, start another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ubiquity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a5b964/32.png) [@Ubiquity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ubiquity)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/35 "2012-02-24T05:47:13Z")
What happened to Bawneys bordello? Of course it never happened… You clowns get worse by the day. Clinton getting a blowjob in the WhiteHut and now the hildebeast is reeking havoc on the planet. HELL YEAH! I’d worry about Gingrich’s marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Ubiquity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a5b964/32.png) [@Ubiquity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ubiquity)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/36 "2012-02-24T05:53:05Z")
Point being.before I get bounced again. You’re picking a splinter from your eye before a freight train is gonna run your ass slam over. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/37 "2012-02-24T05:53:18Z")
Now I feel [all prescient](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14801416&postcount=200). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/38 "2012-02-24T05:55:00Z")
Isn’t the splinter supposed to be in the other person’s eye, or is this interpretive Bible dance? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/39 "2012-02-24T06:01:17Z")
And now back to your previously scheduled thread. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/40 "2012-02-24T09:06:14Z")
Its not even a splinter, its a mite! No, wait, a mute! No, that isn’t it either, but its small… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220.md?page=3)