Jenny Sanford: Newt Wouldn’t Get My Vote

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Jenny Sanford – the ex-wife of disgraced “Appalachian Trail-hiking” former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford – appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball and was asked to react to the ‘Marianne’ Bombshell about to explode on Newt Gingrich tonight.

She told interviewer Chris Matthews that she thought the interview “would have an impact for some people” but that it was hard to know how much, “because most people knew” that Gingrich was on his third wife.

She told Matthews that it “does call into question his character on the personal side” and that when judging politicians you had to gather whether they had a “very strong stance” on the ideological side to compensate.

Sanford told Matthews that she felt Newt “fell short” and “he wouldn’t get my vote.” She said she had not made up her mind on which of the remaining candidates she would vote for on Saturday.

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