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Anderw Rafferty/NBC News
Newt Gingrich makes an unannounced appearance with his wife, Callista, at her book-signing event Saturday at Mount Vernon, Va.
MOUNT VERNON, VA -- The front runner for the Republican presidential nomination accompanied his wife and a mascot elephant at a book signing Saturday on the grounds of George Washington's famous estate.
Newt Gingrich made a surprise appearance with his wife, Callista, at Mount Vernon. The event was originally billed as a solo appearance by Callista Gingrich to sign copies of her children's book "Sweet Land of Liberty."
According to campaign spokesman RC Hammond, organizers at Mount Vernon did not want Newt's appearance to be advertised over concerns about crowd size and the perception that a lasting symbol of the country's first president was getting politically active in the 2012 race.
Gingrich's appearance came just hours before the Des Moines Register was scheduled to reveal its endorsement. The former House speaker picked up the support of the New Hampshire Union Leader last month. Picking up the backing of the first caucus state's largest newspaper in addition to the first primary state's largest newspaper could be a tremendous boast for the candidate going into the start of the primary season.
"I'm not confident about anything," Gingrich said about his prospects of a Register endorsement. "I look forward to see what they do."
Hundreds showed up to the two-hour event, and 200 copies of the book were sold. Gingrich went on to attend a Christmas concert featuring his wife playing French horn.
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Callista is a beautiful woman. She will make an elegant First Lady.
So much in contrast with our current First Lady.
ABO 2012.
Callista is beautiful? Don't you think she goes a little heavy on the make up? Her face looks purple half the time.
As far as our First Lady, nice comment. Really nice.
Elegant??? Does she wear that helmet for protection from the X's X's?
Hey, Pat. They scaped the make up off of Callista's face, and do you know who they found?
Jimmy Hoffa.
Oh, gosh, Matthew! HYSTERICAL! So glad to see you here.
So the fact that Callista ( and would someone please tell me what is up with that name?) was screwing around with a married man bothers you not? How fitting. The right wing; just another name for hypocrite.
As to the poor creature writing a book? Doubt she has read one. But I imagine every right wing nutjob organization will be buying up every copy so it looks like she has a best seller. Just like Palin's.
Thanks, newday. It's an oldie, but still a goody. I adapted it from Tammy Fae Baker to Callista, though.
joe e, you sound like a child infatuated with a adulteress.
Lets see Newt's three wife's. One he left when she was in the hospital with cancer. Who knows how many little sorted affairs are out there. Didn't Callista work for Newt? Was Newt hustling the help? See where that make you wonder about other affairs? So he's your man? Now isn't that a no no to hustling the help? Ask Bill Clinton.
So joe e would you let your daughter in the same room with Newt? I wouldn't, he's a whore!
joe e you can't say that about The President.
I love how both Gingriche's wive and Cheyney's wife both write books with patriotic themes. The publishing industry seems to be on a kick regarding getting republican wives to write these books in some attempt to recruit from the cradle. I have purchased none of these for my children. There are plenty of books out there on historical themes that are better written by professional authors. It is very difficlult to choose just the right words for children's books, and it is hard to believe that these republican wives do an adequate, let alone outstanding job. The ultimate purpose of these politico's books is not to enrich the lives of children, but to further the political pursuits of their husbands. I choose not to purchase them.
Absolutely fitting that this event took place at the home of the Father of our country.
Very appropriate.
ABO 2012.
Appropriate? Turning Washington's home into a BOOK STORE for personal profit.
Right on, sandy. This was definitely NOT an appropriate place to hold a book signing. And it was especially NOT an appropriate place for Mr. Gingrich to show up.
Joseph, you're an idiot.
Can you imagine how poor Joey would be screaming if the Obama's did such a thing?
Our future President using our First President's home for a patriotic book signing in the company of his beautiful and elegant wife. Soon to be an equally elegant and beautiful First Lady for the next eight years.
Soon as the Chicago trash is taken to the curb.
ABO 2012.
By the way, Joey: I know I am wasting my time with someone like you. What did Washington think about political parties? And why would that lead Newtoid and his tramp of a wife to have that event there, and insult to what Washington believed?
An author signing a children's book is a ". . . patriotic book signing . . ."?
I said it before, and I'll say it again, Joseph, you're delusional, and an idiot.
What's the matter Joe,
Stumpin for Mitts in one thread and stumpin for the Grinch in this one? Having a hard time making up your mind on which trash to pick up and which to leave huh?
Good observation Egilman...Thanks for letting us know where this joker stands...He stands twisted up like a pretzel not knowing where to put his or her feet...Joe could be female...You never do know...
That's what paid trolls do, Egilman.
Egilman,
That's true. After the debate in Iowa I just can't seem to decide. They are both clearly the front runners.
I will be very happy with either one, or both if they were to join forces. Unstoppable.
I'm afraid Bachmann's fusillade against Gingrich just bounced off him like nerf cannonballs. However, when she attacked Ron Paul, the attack was telling. This was her last shot to move up in the polls, and it didn't seem to work.
Of course the only poll that matters is the voters. Perry....amusing, but not ready for prime time. Santorum and Huntsman...boring.
ABO 2012
Actually, you had better recheck the polls Joe, The Grinch is barely hanging on to his lead and mittney has fallen back into a solid third in Iowa.
I suspect that Ron Paul will be leading by the end of next week....
Egilman,
We all know that the only poll that really matters is the votes. And Iowa is important, but not that important. I expect the top three or four candidates to occilate up and down according to state, as time goes by.
Now, about Ron Paul. And this is just my opinion of him in general. He looked and sounded to me like a slightly confused old man in an ill fitting suit, that is stuck in his personal belief system. No flexability at all, and probably wouldn't listen to his advisors. That is dangerous.
Perry and Bachmann don't have much of a shot. Huntsman and Santorum are....well....boring. They have some good points, and they are informed, but they just don't have that certain something that we are all looking for. I guess the best way to describe this is that they don't seem Presidential enough.
Now Remember, this is just my take on this.
joe e Newt will do anything for Newt. It sounds like you will do anything for Newt. What color was the kool-aid you drank? Its left a funny ring around your mouth.
She is a dirty husband stealing whore and a tramp...Yeah I would say that is a sharp contrast between her and our stunning self made,self confident sofisticated first lady....Oh and michelle would kick her ass if she came near Barry trying to perform fellatio on him in the parking lot like Old nasty Calista Diamond the notorious semen guzzler
Wow sw Philly,
Didn't see anyone getting nasty till you came along. Very classy.
Lets see if I have it all correct from your post:
Callista Gingrich is a:
1.) Dirty husband stealing whore
2.) a tramp
and
3.) a parking lot semen guzzler??
Wow, are all the nutty liberals like you?? I was just comenting on what a fine First Lady Mrs. Gingrich will make.
Well Joseph, Callista was seeing Newt while he was married. She had her own key to his pad in DC at the time.
tsk tsk tsk. That's not good when the GOP holds itself up as the family values party. Fortunately, most of us didn't buy it. It just wasn't so.
Now Callista is selling books at Mt. Vernon? LoL.
This is what our First Lady was doing
Obama Diary: First Lady Michelle Obama delivers toys and gifts donated by White House staff to the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots campaign at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2011.
Sorry it took a second to respond I was on the last thread commenting....And I think she is the one getting nasty so I can point it out...I used big boy words
So I am nutty for thinking someone is a tramp for doing what she did ? And BTW stop voting for your own comments because that is a pretty sad display of narcisism.
Joseph, it would only be nasty if it wasn't true. In the case of Callista:
1) 'Dirty husband stealing whore'? Well, the 'husband stealing' part is definitely true, but not knowing how often she cleaned herself, it's hard to say whether or not she was 'dirty'. As to whore, it is how you define it. Personally, I think a husband stealing woman is a 'whore', so I think that at least 2/3rds of this part of sw philly's characterization is valid.
2) A 'tramp'? Yeah, I'd say that a woman who is running around with a married man could rightfully be called a 'tramp'. Also have to rate that part of the characterization as true.
3) 'A parking lot semen guzzler? Well, not knowing if she swallowed, or not, I think that, since she was giving Mr. Gingrich (or, at the time 'Representative and Speaker of the House' Gingrich who was trying to impeach President Clinton over oral sex from someone other than his wife) oral sex in a parking lot, but considering no semen stains were found . . . yep, also have to rate that one as true.
Oh, and you were not ". . . just commenting on what a fine First Lady Mrs. Gingrich will make.", you also implied that the current first lady was neither beautiful, nor elegant. In fact, you specifically wrote, "So much in contrast with our current First Lady." So don't even try to claim the high ground, and act all innocent. It only shows how much of a hypocrite you are.
Thanks Matt :) that was like politofact......And that was exactly where I was headed with the swallowing...
sw Philly, very classy remarks. About what I would expect from a pit like Philly.
I know what's upsetting the libbies here. I just managed to post first before the legion of Obama leg-humpers got on board.
Bes that way sometimes.
ABO 2012
swPhill,
You sound like your some kind of authority on swallowing. Maybe you could enlighten all us straight conservatives about that practice.
You people have real nerve saying stuff like that...Comparing a tramp to the first lady...That is just going to far like you racists do all the time.
sw philly, Republicans don't care how they treat people. That's the essence of who they are. Ignore them.
Ahh, of course. The race card. The last bastion of the uninformed left.
When all else fails, play the race card, right??
The uninformed left? haha.
Hey, your war just ended in Iraq. The war the uninformed left said was wrong. Right from the get.go.
I know. I know. It's ancient history. Tell that to the innocent Iraqi's whose lives were lost. Forever. Because of the uninformed GOP.
I am not playing any card every white person I hear talking about Obama in private says very racist things about him and his wife so wake up to reality
And what else failed ? He didn't cheat on his wife with her ? She didn't have a relationship with a married man ? To me that is a nasty slut ....Not women who were sexualy harrased by Hermie...
And I try to ignore them Pat but it is hard sometimes....But I don't let it get me mad...Even when they are saying personal stuff about me
sw philly, it's what they do. You see what the Republican Party in Congress is doing. It's out and out cruel. But it's what their supporters want. They seem to think government programs (which help Americans) and Democrats are the enemy. They truly believe that.
Who was the Republican Senator from earlier this week who said that the Democratic legislators were the honest ones? It was quite an admission. And true.
Obama, me, you - the GOP supporters definitely believe we are the enemy. So ridiculous.
sw philly: I think the evidence is clear that there is an undercurrent of racism with the fringe right wing. I have been politically active since Nixon, was invited to his inauguration. I have never seen a President's citizenship questioned, his educational and work credentials questioned like this President. And there is only one difference....
I don't know which senator accidently said that but I would love to hear it...I believe one of them said it because when you lie all the time the truth slips out unconsciously sometimes.... Three year olds do it all of the time///
I really need to get into the book writing business. We all do. Seems to me that's all anybody is doing this Holiday Season. Selling their books. Or pepper spraying protestors or people in line at stores.
I think these will be my themes for my Christmas Cards next year. How to get in the Holiday Day Spirit 2012 style.
I wonder if any movie stations will be showing Bob Hope's The Lemon Drop Kid soon. Funniest Christmas movie ever. Bob Hope may have been a con artist in that movie, but at least he was a funny funny con artist.
In the meantime, I think I'll go start a draft of my book. It was the best of times, it was the ....
Best of luck with your book Mrs. Newt. It's what we like to see. Politicians and their wives selling their books the week before Christmas instead of doing other things, like doing what you can to help the less fortunate during these tough economic times.
After all it is Christmas. A time for giving.
Isn't that cute,,,the Gingrich's indoctrinating children into the evils of Conservatism...complete with a "mascot"...which just happens to be an elephant.
Ronald McDonald would be proud.
Mick I have had my kids all watching all the muppets movies since they said that off the wall stuff on the occult network(Fox News)
Yes Mickey, you can't begin to train the kids too early. Liberalism is a mental disorder. To be a good parent, you need to have all your kids innoculated early with a large dose of conservatism, before the libbie virus becomes malignant. LOL
Joe,
You are aware that in 2003 an ACTUAL study was done that concluded that Conservatism is a mental illness, are you not?
LoL right back at you, Mr. Conservative...
Notice the sharp defined contrast between the future First Lady and that bimbo occupying our White House now.
Moochelle Antoinette Obama. Old Junk in the trunk Moochelle. Finally, finally proud to be an American once all the perks of her Husband's office started rolling in. Beautiful?? Moochelle looks like a burned out linebacker in drag.
ABO 2012.
Gee, Joseph, hypocritical much?
Once again, Joseph, you are delusional, and an idiot.
Yep, no racism there, right Joey?
joe e Lets see when a woman sleeps with a married man she's is a whore & has no morals. To you thats ok. Well I guess we can call her the First Adulteress, instead of the First Lady.
She doesn't hate Muslims, she hates everyone.
Notice I made no allusions about Moochelle's sex life or fidelity. I can't picture Moochelle in a sexual setting. (Yechhh) Does not compute, sorry.
As for Moochelle's fidelity, what kind of question is that?? She knows where her bread is buttered, and it's just dripping with all the butter the taxpayers can provide. Who could ask for a better meal ticket than Barrack??
If you could debate policy, that would be fine.
But nasty comments about someone you do not know, is not doing much for your stature.
Guess next we are to believe you are a Christian.
The right seems to always brag about their Christian values. But their words give them away!
Oh no Sandy,
Not my stature...anything but that. LOL
So if any of you deranged libbies want to regain the stature of our White House, just consider voting for Newt Gingrich and his beautiful, elegant wife Callista.
Can't do any better than that.
joe e your just as nuts as NEWT! joe e get a life!
Guess it's getting really easy to rattle the liberal cage. And why are the ignorant libbies so sensative?? Because they sense what is coming, and lash out aimlessly in pure desperation.
There's no question that Obama is going to lose. That's a given. It's how much of the fragile Democratic apparatus will he drag down with him??
I think this one will be really historic. LOL
joe e the only desperate person on here is you. You speak out both ends of your body. To be you really must suck! If your only joy in life is to come on here & try to stir the pot. Get a life!
It is getting harder to see why they call themselves the Christian right.
to MM: The fact that you have no real point to make in your so-called comments proves it all. Michele Bachmann could win the Presidency. Do you understand that , you dunce? I am a retired lawyer, Cal Berkeley grad, Army veteran cleared for secret, Republican who used to be as Democrat (on Bobby Kennedy's team), and you think I can't read? Read What? The lib Des Moines Register? Show this comment to yur family and friends, I dare you. I double dare you. If yu don't stop calling Michele Bachmann names, Jesus Christ is going to get you. I mean, get you good.
Bachmann for President of the USA. Many millions of Americans agree. Wait until all of the primary votes are in, across the country. America needs a strong woman for President. Perry, Gingrich and Romney don't add up to one good candidate. Why short-change yourself, America. You have a chance, for the first time, to pick a real woman, an achiever, a leader (Tea Party is a good example) and she has handled herself perfectly in all the debates. The best is yet to come. And Michele can defeat Obama with one hand tied behind her back.
signed: a retired lawyer, 44 years, a former Democrat now turned arch-Republican, a Tea Party Patriot, a grad of Cal Berkeley, a Jewish guy who became a Christian years ago, a backer of Israel 100%, writer, and yes, I can read, MM...in seven languages. (cleared for Secret by the Army). Your dribble is comical, if it weren't so juvenile. So Republicans can't read, eh. What a simpleminded thing to say.