Dear Followers,
As most of you already know, I’m a huge fan of Gail Collins, who was the first female member of the New York Times’ editorial board. In the past, I’ve shared with you my great admiration for her amazing book “America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines,” as well as her more recent best seller “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.”
Collins indites politicians (like Angelo Errichetti, Randy Hopper, Carl Kruger, Carl Paladino, Mark Sanford and Elliot Spitzer) who suggest that “hard work and patriotism” can drive them into serial adultery and other “inappropriate choices.”
The editorial reminds readers that Gingrich’s first wife, Jackie, had once been his high school Math teacher. While she “was recovering from surgery for uterine cancer…her husband walked in [the hospital room] and started talking about the terms of a divorce.”
Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne, “was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and was visiting her mother when her husband called to tell her there was another woman.” Now, Gingrich has told the Christian Broadcasting Network that “he’s found true love with Wife No. 3, converted to Catholicism, and ‘learned an immense amount.'”
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