Fox News ‘A-Team’ Psychologist: Being Married Three Times Could Make Gingrich A Better President [View all]

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Fox News ‘A-Team’ Psychologist: Being Married Three Times Could Make Gingrich A Better President
By Zack Ford on Jan 20, 2012 at 6:12 pm

Assuming Marianne Gingrich’s allegations are true, Newt Gingrich reacted to news of his own wrongdoing by attempting to justify his deplorable behavior (asking for an “open marriage” after he’s already cheating) and then proceeding to continue down that path anyway (dumping Marianne for Callista). While most would be repelled by such actions, Dr. Keith Ablow of Fox News’ “Medical A-Team” believes Gingrich’s personal choices would not negatively impact his performance as president. In fact, Ablow argues’ that Gingrich’ ability to attract so many women is a sign that the rest of the country will fall for him too:

You can take any moral position you like about men and women who cheat while married, but there simply is no correlation, whatsoever—from a psychological perspective—between whether they can remain true to their wedding vows and whether they can remain true to the Oath of Office. [...]

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Conclusion: When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.

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http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/20/408488/fox-news-a-team-psychologist-being-married-three-times-could-make-gingrich-a-better-president/