{"id":3726,"date":"2011-05-10T04:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:43:59","slug":"newt-ready-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/05\/newt-ready-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt ready to run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

He plans to announce his plans on Wednesday \u2014 and two parts of his life will undoubtedly figure prominently in his campaign: his faith and his marriage.<\/p>\n

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From the New York Times:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Callista Bisek\u2019s friends from rural Wisconsin were stunned when, well over a decade ago, she confided that she was secretly dating an older, married man: Newt Gingrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still in her 20s when they met, Ms. Bisek had been raised in a town of 1,500, the only child of a meat packer and a secretary. A churchgoing Roman Catholic, she had attended a Lutheran college where she practiced piano five hours a day. \u201cIs this the wisest course for you to be taking?\u201d Karen Olson, her best friend, recalled asking.<\/p>\n

Today, Ms. Bisek is Mrs. Gingrich, married for 11 years, but perhaps best remembered for the six-year affair that contributed to her husband\u2019s political downfall. His critics cast Mr. Gingrich, the former House speaker, as a hypocrite who sought to impeach a president over infidelity while engaging in it himself with Ms. Bisek, who was a Congressional aide.<\/p>\n

Yet in a curious tale of Washington reinvention, the onetime congressman from Georgia is counting on the third Mrs. Gingrich for his political redemption.<\/p>\n

As he prepares for a Republican presidential primary run \u2014 he said Monday that he would formally declare his intentions on Wednesday \u2014 Mr. Gingrich is presenting himself as a family man who has embraced Catholicism and found God, with his wife as a kind of character witness. Depending on one\u2019s point of view, she is a reminder of his complicated past, or his secret political weapon.<\/p>\n

Barely a sentence goes by without Mr. Gingrich uttering the words \u201cCallista and I.\u201d They are constantly together \u2014 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, at conservative political conferences, at book signings and screenings of their documentary films. She is the voice on his audio books; her face is all over his 2012 Web site<\/a>, where visitors can read \u201cA Note from Newt & Callista.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Villanova University<\/a> on a recent Thursday night, Mrs. Gingrich warmed up the audience for a showing of the couple\u2019s movie about Pope John Paul II<\/a> by signing books and DVDs in her left-handed curlicue. But when asked whether she is ready for the scrutiny a campaign would bring, she smiled tightly and grew silent.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gingrich answered for her. \u201cSeems to be,\u201d he said, with uncharacteristic tentativeness. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked about it for a year. It\u2019s difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Gingrich is well aware that social conservatives are skeptical of him because he did not emphasize their issues in Congress, but also because of his two divorces and admission of infidelity. He has been meeting with religious leaders around the country to address their concerns.<\/p>\n

Deal Hudson, president of Catholic Advocate<\/a>, a conservative group, said that if Mrs. Gingrich \u201cwants to be first lady,\u201d she would probably have to discuss their relationship as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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