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JANUARY 20, 2012 2:52PM

Breaking News: Gingrich's Open Marriage Letter Revealed.

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This really is amazing.

After quite a few phone calls and thanks to the unprecedented freedoms provided by the Patriot Act, I think I've uncovered the smoking gun.

Was this dangerous work? Potentially, but America's right to know trumps my own petty concerns for my family's personal safety.

Without further ado, I hereby submit a document which may very well sway the outcome of the 2012 Republican Presidential race: the original transcript of the letter written from former Speaker of the House New Gingrich to his then-wife, Marianne, proposing an "open marriage."

July 24, 2000

My Dearest Marianne,

Our marriage has always been one based upon love, trust and above all, reason. And that is precisely why I'm appealing to your sense of reason to hear me out, to understand that I am proposing this arrangement for the benefit of you, me and most of all, America.

No single argument is more or less important than another, so please read each with equal receptiveness. Let's begin.

You know how I'm really into history, and you know how I really like playing that game where I'm Abe Lincoln, the country lawyer, and one day while I'm shirtlessly building a log cabin, you walk up with a tin of water and tell me I look thirsty, and I say, "Then quench me, slave girl," even though Abe Lincoln never had slaves, although I would have had I actually been Abe Lincoln? Yeah, I won't make you do that anymore.

I can find someone else to mousse my furry chest.

I can get that whole "secretly attracted to Lewinsky" thing taken care of.

You're free to date and engage in physical relations with anyone of your choosing, even friends of mine...if I actually had any.

You can pursue someone whose required foreplay doesn't include a miniature jaws of life or other small hydraulic device to expose my Newt Flewt.

You will no longer wake up in the morning smelling of Old Spice and Domino's Cheesy Bread.

If I return home smelling of Love's Baby Soft and Grape Bubble Yum, I won't need to tell you she looked eighteen and claimed to be a lobbyist for the wine cooler industry.

I think you'll agree that this arrangement benefits all, especially you. Please respond soon, since I plan on being gone all weekend.

Your fuzzy love muffin,
Newton

I think the facts speak for themselves. You are a small man, Mr. Gingrich.

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Dear Newt,
If I can't have you or Lincoln; nobody can!
See you in Court!
And please - wear your Briefs!
Alimoniously yours,
Marianne
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"Newt Flewt" - bwahahahahaha!!! I needed a good laugh today, thank you!
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Newt Flewt? I heard it is more like a piccolo. :D

Lezlie
Cheering here dear.
And wiping my chin from laughing.
funnier than hell...
truth usually is. Yes, I loved this! Rated
Too bad Newt Flewt didn't have the magic of Pinocchio's nose.

Rated♥
Oh my God, this is fabulous. I'm posting to my Facebook.
This absolutely disgusting; you've taken Americans' "right to know" to a new low. I'll now forever have the image of poor Callista "mousseing Newt's furry chest" while he plays his Newt Flewt and shouts, "quench me, slave girl." I think I'm going to vomit. After I finish laughing.
But...but you gotta admire honesty.
This is hysterical! Sharing on FB!
Nice post. He's small in mind and ethic, large in body and ego.
Hilarious- then I read Fusun's comment. Blushing for you.
RE: "I am proposing this arrangement for the benefit of you, me and most of all, America." Hey, I'm pretty sure he actually said that. Verbatim! /r/
lol @ Newt Flewt. Thank you so much for brightening up my monday with this.
Hilarious!
Old Spice and Domino's Cheesy Bread, if Newt only looked like the Old Spice Man...
Oh my dear Pond! Thanks ever so much for the laugh this afternoon! This man will be giving you oodles upon oodles of ammunition in the coming months and I look forward to reading your take on all of it!
I think Calista may have finally Newtered him -- I know I wouldn't mess around with a woman who looks like she enjoys strangling cats and whose fascination with hair is every bit as freaky as Trump's. Now that I've got that out of my system, for a more serious look at l'affaire de newtered, go here:

http://open.salon.com/blog/tom_cordle/2012/01/20/to_or_not_to
Dear Marianne,
You are a saint in Barney Frank's Heaven, serving those who squash the head of the block-headed, slightly pompous snake -- Lo!, damn you Newt Lucifer! May you burn from the STD -burning Hell that you have chosen to occupy, this lowest level, unfit for murderers, pedergasts, liars and pagans dressed in Christ's own
robes, with deceit being your slithering aim.
It's a good thing I already had my morning coffee before reading this. I might have spluttered it all over the screen as I laughed -- or worse, had it go up my nose. What a riot! I had hoped you really did have a letter, but of course, Newt is probably a tad too canny to ever have written down even mental notes on how to present this to Marianne.

If I had to believe Marianne or Newt, though, my money's on Marianne. She has nothing to gain from lying and Newt has everything to lose by being honest.

-r-
I hope for your sake that Newt and his flewt wins the Rep. nomination. He is prime meat for talented satirists like yourself. Very funny and Rated