Religion
Related: About this forumThe Religious Right's 'Nice Guy' Who Threw His Wife Under the Bus
Bob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his nut bag wife. Yet the Rolex-taking Mr. Honest never acknowledged his own bad behavior.
09.05.14
Patricia Murphy
When Bob McDonnell burst onto the national scene in 2009, he was everything the Republican Party neededa good-looking family man who stopped the Obama juggernaut in its tracks in the swing state of Virginia just 12 months after the partys McCain humiliation of 2008.
A family-values social conservative (he got his JD from Regent University), McDonnell cleverly wooed Commonwealth voters with his corn-dog Bobs for Jobs campaign slogan and a heavy dose of what appeared to be the TV-perfect brood: five gorgeous kids, including a daughter who served in the military in Iraq, and a devoted, smiling wife who had once been a Washington Redskins cheerleader.
McDonnells family was emblazoned on his campaign bus and commercials. At the inaugural ball after he won the governors race, the McDonnells slow-danced to Looks Like We Made It. McDonnell had even written his masters thesis on the breakdown of the American family and ways the Republican Party could build it back up. As the family goes, so goes the nation, he wrote.
Underlying the entire McDonnell package in 2009 was a known truth about the governor among political operatives who knew him and believed in himthat unlike the divas and the bullies and the egomaniacs who litter both political parties today, Bob McDonnell was just a good guy. Staff called him Mr. Honest. Republicans in Washington called him the Boy Scout.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/05/the-religious-right-s-nice-guy-who-threw-his-wife-under-the-bus.html
obxhead
(8,434 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)political and family life.
demwing
(16,916 posts)and those who merely wear religion
enki23
(7,786 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 6, 2014, 06:47 PM - Edit history (1)
There are only good people, and shitty people. Religion has a slight correlation with being shitty, but it's not enough to go on without other data. Unless they're *really* pious, of course. Then it's a dead give-away.
underpants
(182,627 posts)I thought - this guy is too good to be true. Then his demeaning attitude towards women came out. I still knew he would win - the political press in Virginia (especially Richmond) couldn't acknowledge that Virginia was quickly turned blue.
The bottom line here is - don't fire the help. When they fired the chef the chain of events that would be started.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Leontius
(2,270 posts)pleinair
(171 posts)& deservedly so
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)a good Christian Republican!
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)I thought this was standard operating procedure!