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Senator Jeff Sessions - who had condemned the hateful talk - is praising Gingrich's decision to back off his "racist" comment. Kind of makes you wonder who in the Republican party got to these guys. But Limbaugh says he may look past that and is now open to supporting President Obama's nominee if he can be convinced that she has a "sensibility toward life in a legal sense." He's talking about abortion here. The radio host still believes Sotomayor would "bring a form of racism and bigotry" to the court. The other gas bag, Limbaugh, says he doesn't know why Gingrich retracted his comment. ? He says he shouldn't have used the word "racist" to refer to Sotomayor as a person - even if her words were unacceptable. He’s the one who can knock Obama down.He now says his initial reaction to the judge's comments was "perhaps too strong and direct." Really. “Romney’s a businessman, not a fighter,” he finally said. Joseph paused for a few second, staring out across the estuary. He knows too much history, he knows Obama’s tactics, and he would out-debate him. “The uber-left is doing whatever they can to destroy Newt because they don’t think Obama can handle him. The Wilsons’ message to me was simple, and it was echoed by almost all of the conservatives I spoke to on Thursday: this whole Marianne business isn’t proof of Newt’s weakness it’s proof of his strength (and all the more reason to vote for him)! “I think this is a lot of political backwash to get Romney up in front,” Joseph explained. Rick Santorum? He’s stalled at 11 percent in the polls. And who else are hard-core conservatives going to run to? Rick Perry? He just dropped out. Conservatives are already aware of Newt’s checkered past. My hunch is that Marianne’s revelations will inspire a similar sort of anti-media backlash here in South Carolina. Then I remembered Herman Cain-or, more specifically, the dozen or so of Iowans who told me, right before the caucuses, that they would’ve voted for Herman Cain if the media hadn’t forced him from the race. As Joseph put it, “down here in the South, we’re moral.” And yet, after hearing that their pick for president may have proposed open marriage to his wife of 18 years, they were more upset at the media than at the man himself. They were practicing Christians, married for decades. These were informed voters-the kind who kept up on all the latest political developments. “All of a sudden, now Newt’s fixing to come ahead, he might beat Romney here, and so what’s happened? The left has given his ex-wife a couple million dollars to run her mouth.”įor a second, I was speechless.
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If my country was in the shape it’s in now, and I knew that one man, basically, was responsible for it, and my ex-husband could set things right, I could put my country before my feelings from 20 years ago.”
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“And I know that women don’t get over things, but still. “20 years ago, that’s a long time,” she said. “It was 20 years ago!” Kathy interrupted. Newt might have asked for it, but why is she telling it now-” Had these two been obsessively checking the Politico app on the iPhones or something?īut then I asked what they thought of the charges, and Joseph said something that surprised me even more. “So, have you heard about this thing with Newt’s second wife?” I asked. The first reports about Marianne’s ABC interview had just surfaced on Twitter a few minutes earlier, as I was pulling into town from Charleston I assumed I’d be the one to break the news to them, and I was curious to see how they would react. We were all waiting for Gingrich to arrive, so I figured I’d strike up a conversation. You get the picture.) Joseph, 67, was wearing a camouflage cap, aviators, and a brown, yellow, and red flannel shirt Kathy, 64, was in a white puffy coat and a long red scarf. It’s all wraparound porches, Spanish moss, and Pat Conroy vistas. (Beaufort is where they filmed The Big Chill and The Prince of Tides. I met the Wilsons on the waterfront in handsome Beaufort, S.C.