Newt Gingrich has a woman problem and the solution would seem to be standing one or two steps behind him. That is his wife Callista, who to my knowledge has been rendered mute — or more likely told to button her lip — at the former House speaker’s campaign appearances.
The primary reason that woman voters are turned off to Gingrich is his serial infidelities. Callista is his third wife and he left the first two to pursue affairs and then married his quarry.
The French happen to have their own presidential election going on, but can’t resist gawking across the pond at ours and seem particularly fascinated with Callista. The daily news show “Le Petit Journal” — the French equivalent of “The Daily Show” — revealed its fascination with her and her inimitable coiffure, which host Ariel Levy described as “one remarkable lock styled into an immobile, upward swoosh.”
What would be the harm of the Missus showing up on the occasional women’s oriented talk show even if the talk was more about her remarkable do than how her husband is going to save America?
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