The ad depicts women secretly voting differently from their husbands, a choice Gingrich said was immoral

Summary

Newt Gingrich blasted a Julia Roberts-led ad encouraging women to vote privately, calling it a sign of the sick values he attributes to Democrats. In a heated exchange with Sean Hannity, he accused the party of promoting dishonesty and moral decay in America, suggesting this reflects a broader erosion of societal integrity. Gingrich, who faced his own scandals, cited Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent split from the Democrats as further proof of disillusionment with what he sees as their corrupt influence.

  • @Mercuri@lemmy.world
    38•6 hours ago

    He accuses the Democrat party of promoting dishonesty? Jesus fucking Christ. This is a guy who pushed the Big Lie that the 2020 Election was stolen. The sheer hypocrisy. Every accusation a confession.

    • @bitwaba@lemmy.world
      26•5 hours ago

      Throughout his congressional campaign in 1974, Gingrich was having an affair with a young volunteer. An aide who worked with Gingrich throughout the 1970s stated that “it was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie.”
      …
      In September 1980, according to friends who knew them both, Newt visited Jackie in the hospital the day after she had undergone surgery to treat her uterine cancer; once there, Newt began talking about the terms of their divorce, at which point Jackie threw him out of the room

      In 1993, while still married to Marianne, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, more than two decades his junior.[278] Gingrich was having this affair even as he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury related to Clinton’s own extramarital affair.[279][128] Gingrich filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999, a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

      Sauce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

      My stepmother was doing her undergrad (and a few years later her law degree) from the University of West Georgia when he was a professor of history there and had started his first congressional campaign. She said literally every woman in school was aware of his affairs with students.

      Moral decay in 2024? This is just yet another year of accusations fueled by projection from the right.

      • @collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5•3 hours ago

        Let’s not omit that he got fined $300k for ethics violations in 1997 and was found to have accepted 1.7M in bribes (calling them what they are) from Freddie Mac shortly before Freddie wrecked the economy.

      • @Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
        -4•4 hours ago

        Not to belabor the truism that Gingrich is pure scum, but he’s a relevant point in the argument for an age-cap on voting rights.

        Hit 70, you’re done. Go find something else to do, the needs and wants of the Nation are no longer your purview.

        • @bitwaba@lemmy.world
          1•15 minutes ago

          Would be nice if he put his money where his mouth is. He’s 81 years old, but I bet he’s still gonna show up Tuesday.