# Newt Gingrich takes his fourth ‘no-adultery pledge’. Newt, head for the Pit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982 "2011-12-13T02:58:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![G-SE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@G-SE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G-SE)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/41 "2011-12-13T20:17:12Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Swiftboating. a.k.a. Caining ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/42 "2011-12-13T20:42:19Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > … 50 year old Korean hair fetishist. Why oh why didn’t I use this as my screen name.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/43 "2011-12-13T20:51:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > +3, actually, since he’s done them three times… > > Seriously, it had been my impression that the prior three no-adultery pledges referred to in the article were marriage vows. Yeah, so including marriage vows, I guess this is his 7th pledge not to commit adultery? And he has broken 5 of them (that we know of)? What a slimeball. ---
**Author:** ![elninost0rm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed655f/32.png) [@elninost0rm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elninost0rm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/44 "2011-12-13T20:59:57Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > Is there like some kind of Pit thread-starting Pokémon contest that you’re in that we don’t know about? Christ, shut the fuck up already. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/45 "2011-12-13T21:08:18Z")
Are there seriously women lining up to fuck this guy? How the hell does a dude who looks like that get the opportunity to commit adultery? Is the takeaway from the Cain collapse and Gingrich rise that the Republican base prefer a white serial adulterer to a black uni-adulterer? Does this mean that the Republican primaries are going to settle the question of whether a Protestant serial adulterer is preferable a monogamous Mormon? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/46 "2011-12-13T21:13:40Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > Are there seriously women lining up to fuck this guy? How the hell does a dude who looks like that get the opportunity to commit adultery? Money and power are aphrodisiacs. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/47 "2011-12-13T21:15:12Z")
Newt is almost halfway to [Mickey Rooney](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001682/bio) territory But at least you can say he doesn’t just lust in his heart. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/48 "2011-12-13T21:18:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > That is in fact what the article is referring to; they’re counting his three marriages as “non adultery pledges” and counting this as #4. I wondered the same thing. I don’t know about Newt but some couples have a “Fidelity pledge” as part of their wedding, in addition to the normal vows. Kind of a belt and suspenders thing I guess. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/49 "2011-12-13T22:27:08Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > You’re starting pit threads with no more than a link and a “deserves to be Pitted!” > They’re tepid OPs, barely even heated enough for MPSIMS. If I didn’t see your name at the top of them, I would think they had been authored by **Big T**. > > I don’t understand why you’re even bothering. Obviously, it’s not because you’re pissed off at the subject, so there must be some other reason to be doing this every three or six days. Are you a moron, a numbskull, a dipshit? An attention whore (Look At Me!!!), a Pit thread whore (Obviously, I’m important, look at all the responses I get to my Pit threads.), a random dweeb who can’t be bothered to marshal facts, reasons, and invective to tell the rest of us why he’s (not) pissed off? I really wish you guys would make up your minds. Is it that I get really angry about small things, or is it that I’m always so tepid and never show anger? Or do you have me mixed up with someone else? I don’t start pit threads, and haven’t for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/50 "2011-12-14T03:24:25Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I should point out that Euphonius Polemic knocked this out of the park in Post 2. If the Democrats raise Gingrich’s appalling personal ethics, the Republicans WILL turn it around and try to paint Obama as a bad family man. I’d bet money on it, and I’d bet money it will work on a lot of people. EP is not making a joke; it’s been done. In 2004 the Democrats ran a war hero (John Kerry) against a guy who, shall we say, put some effort into avoiding wartime service (George Bush) and successfully painted Kerry as a bad soldier. > > I’m not sure what twist they’ll put on Obama to make him seem like a bad family man. Phony rumours perhaps, but that doesn’t seem nearly devious enough. Here in Massachusetts, Karl Rove’s group Crossroads GOP is running ads criticizing Elizabeth Warren for being too cozy with Wall Street banks. They don’t care how much of a complete inversion of the truth something is, say it often enough and at least some people start to believe it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/51 "2011-12-14T03:36:07Z")
The Republican primary has more looney candidates than a San Francisco mayor’s race. To think that one of them might be our next President makes me as proud to be an American as I am to be a native born San Franciscan. Which is to say, where is Willie Brown, the Democrat Republicans have crossed the aisle to vote for more than once? ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/52 "2011-12-14T04:30:26Z")
An Evangelical preacher from Indianola is quoted in the tomorrow’s Des Moines paper as characterizing Newt as “an empty suit with a broken zipper.” That’s pretty witty for an Evangelical, not a type known for a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Naxos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Naxos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naxos)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/53 "2011-12-14T04:39:23Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#): > > I can’t stand this pompous asshole. Yet somehow, he’s becoming the darling of the “family values” sanctimonious, ditto-head, hypocritical shit-brains who vote Republican and seem to run the party. Because the glue that holds them together is blatant racism. That’s why they will vote for any adulterer, any corrupt piece of crap who will blast the US economy to hell, any cocaine sniffing scum bag, any mindless idiot, any mass death criminal that will hold up the Republican ideal of racism and discrimination. That’s who they are. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/54 "2011-12-14T16:17:52Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > As Allesan and Miller have suggested, this post more than makes the thread. > I mean, we need a 50 year old Korean hair fetishist. I think I need to start an “Ask the 50 year old Korean hair fetishist” thread. . . nah. And a .500 batting average would make Newt an all-star baseball player. ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/55 "2011-12-14T16:37:26Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > I wondered the same thing. I don’t know about Newt but some couples have a “Fidelity pledge” as part of their wedding, in addition to the normal vows. Kind of a belt and suspenders thing I guess. This really had me giggling for some reason. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/56 "2011-12-15T20:59:59Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Does this mean that this time he will divorce wife #3 _before_ he starts banging the intern? Interns are teenagers, not adults. Hence, he can’t be adulterous with an intern. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/57 "2011-12-16T08:57:43Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I should point out that Euphonius Polemic knocked this out of the park in Post 2. If the Democrats raise Gingrich’s appalling personal ethics, the Republicans WILL turn it around and try to paint Obama as a bad family man. I’d bet money on it, and I’d bet money it will work on a lot of people. EP is not making a joke; it’s been done. In 2004 the Democrats ran a war hero (John Kerry) against a guy who, shall we say, put some effort into avoiding wartime service (George Bush) and successfully painted Kerry as a bad soldier. > > I’m not sure what twist they’ll put on Obama to make him seem like a bad family man. Phony rumours perhaps, but that doesn’t seem nearly devious enough. > [@waterj2](#): > > Here in Massachusetts, Karl Rove’s group Crossroads GOP is running ads criticizing Elizabeth Warren for being too cozy with Wall Street banks. They don’t care how much of a complete inversion of the truth something is, say it often enough and at least some people start to believe it. Well, Gingrich won’t win: the establishment dislikes him (one guy said that bigfoot in a clown suit was more plausible) and we’re already seeing indications of Peak Newt in the polls. That said: yes. The strategy works because modern conservatives don’t mind being lied to. In fact they like it: they find it reassuring. I mean you have to be pretty deep in the tank to watch a news source like Fox News that repeatedly puts out misinformation. Just this week: [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011\_12/when\_fox\_news\_tries\_to\_make\_a034063.php](http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/when_fox_news_tries_to_make_a034063.php) Then again, Fox News doesn’t much like Romney: [http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/12/fox-news-swaps.php](http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/12/fox-news-swaps.php) Their shoddy reporting is chronicled daily at Media Matters: anybody who voluntarily watches such factually screwed up and unreliable material clearly has issues. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/58 "2011-12-16T09:34:29Z")
> [@Abe\_Babe](#): > > I think I need to start an “Ask the 50 year old Korean hair fetishist” thread. . . This post has been brushed by The Brush. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/59 "2011-12-16T11:57:23Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > No one else has had to more than once. 😃 I really hope it turns out he breaks it mid-campaign… Hasn’t he been cheating on his current wife during this campaign already? I haven’t been paying attention, but wasn’t there a woman connected to him earlier this year? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982/60 "2011-12-16T12:38:18Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > This post has been brushed by The Brush. And you thought The Grapist was bad . . . (See [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298) if you’re wondering whatinell I’m talking about.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-takes-his-fourth-no-adultery-pledge-newt-head-for-the-pit/605982.md?page=4)