# Fox News Article: "Newt Gingrich's three marriages mean he might make a strong president -- really"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/41 "2012-02-24T09:15:51Z")

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> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#):
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> Interesting. That seems to be around his limit.
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> Marriage to Wife #1 = 19 years  
> Marriage to Wife #2 = 19 years  
> Marriage to Wife #3 = 12 years and counting
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> By that measure, he must be courting Wife #4 by now.

Wasn’t he canoodling with [del]Lipstick Owl[/del] Callista for six years before he finally divorced Wife #2? So yeah, he’s about due.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/42 "2012-02-24T14:06:39Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Its not even a splinter, its a mite! No, wait, a mute! No, that isn’t it either, but its small…

What, that thing in your eye? Lemme . . . [peers close] [backs away slowly] . . . Ermm, don’t worry, it’s nothing, nothing at all . . . _Somebody call Homeland Security . . . No, the Air Force!_

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-article-newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-he-might-make-a-strong-president-really/610220/43 "2012-02-24T14:29:48Z")

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> [@Ubiquity](#):
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> 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’)

Y’know, more than few straight guys appreciate the end of the gut . . . **Both** ends, actually . . .

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