Newt Loves Callista

By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT

WASHINGTON

Newt Gingrich used to get in trouble for cheating on wives and dumping them. Now he’s notorious for being uxorious.

At a moment when powerful men are self-destructing by betraying their wives, Gingrich is self-destructing by honoring his.

The Georgian bomb-thrower’s whole career was about blowing stuff up, and suddenly, in the most spectacular conflagration of all, he has blown up his own presidential campaign.

Not even at the height of Watergate did we see such a mass resignation as the one this past week with Gingrich’s campaign. He lost two dozen disgruntled aides and his entire Iowa operation.

And it was all because he loved not wisely, but too well.

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