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When Newt Gingrich was fighting his way through a horde of reporters into Border Books in Phoenix, Arizona, last Wednesday, it didn't take too much imagination to reduce the temperature by 70 degrees, raze the palm trees, and picture another gray-haired politician caught in press gridlock in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1992, right after Gennifer Flowers made her charges against then-Governor Bill Clinton. Now it's Gingrich's turn, and it's Anne Manning, a former campaign worker, who went on the record for the first time in a just-published Vanity Fair article saying...
Manning--who said she had come forward because when Gingrich "talks about family values and acts righteous about stuff like that, it just gets my back up"--is hardly a shill for the American welfare state, nor are Gingrich's former campaign treasurer and another aide who both went on the record with Sheehy about Gingrich's various affairs, but never mind. Stonewalling the press in matters sexual often works, but it doesn't stop the frenzy of interest, which is particularly high when the person in question has set himself up as the putative leader of the family-values...
Neither has much in common with Vanity Fair, which is one reason Gingrich likes them. Some troubling realities of that era, such as segregation, were not acknowledged amid the heartwarming Americana served up by the Digest, which featured Unforgettable Characters (an Arctic explorer), animals (What Snakes Are Really Like), business derring-do (Dr. Geiger's Little Magic Box) and side-splitting Humor in Uniform. As for family life, the Saturday Evening Post observed it only through a flattering scrim, with its Norman Rockwell portraits of boys gone fishin' and short stories such as "The Skipper Was a Dame...
More compelling to the Beltway crowd, Tumulty says, is a bombshell from the current Mrs. Gingrich: "I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be," Marianne Gingrich told Vanity Fair. "He can't do it without me. I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy. I just go on the air the next day and undermine everything." Gingrich has said he'll decide on a presidential...
Alternatively, the Senate's proposed defense program (combined with Gingrich's desire to "eviscerate" the American role in international affairs) will come back to haunt us. In the vacuum of a powerless U.N., we will find ourselves a lonely superpower indeed, fraught with the paranoia that unregulated nuclear arsenals all over the Middle East are trained at the West, and that consequently, a new and much more dangerous arms race--which the Senate's misguided Cold War idealism has already endorsed--is the only solution left to our national security...