Breaking!!--Divorce to Become a Sacrament!!

[DemocracyInaction]

'scuse me while I pick myself up off the floor after rolling around laughing!! Let's see...the "holier than God" Christian right has a choice of such stellar virgins as Rudy who has been married 3 times and screwed around; or Newt who was screwing around while witch-hunting for screwing and has been married three times; or McCain who has been married twice. And then there are those SATANIC Dems.....those bastards....Hil and Obama and Edwards, et al have ONLY been married ONCE. Well, that just shows how goddamn inferior they are!! Soooo..how does the vast Republican douche bag, hypocrites sell this one??? Bet ya' that by '08 "divorce" and "fucking around" will become sacraments. It will be ordained from god and given only to his chosen like Rudy and Newt--oh, and denied to Romney 'cause he "ain't a true Christian". And, still, about 33% of the electorate will suck down this slop from fat bastards like Limbaugh and "beeeelieeeve" it came straight from Jesus. Oh well, you can't do much with people who are at a 6th grade level, I guess.

[benddem]

1. the other thing about McCain

is that he divorced the wife who sat here in the states grieved for him and raised his kids while he was a POW. Wonder what she got out of the marriage.

[peacetalksforall]

2. So it's 3-3-2 against 1-1-1.

Throw in Gore and Kucinich for a 3-3-2 against 1-1-1-1-1

[DemocracyInaction]

3. Am wondering...

..when the morons of this country (and NEVER underestimate the ignorance of this society) will finally realize that "morality" is NOT a word known to the repukes who run the Repuke party and their fat bastard corporate masters. Perhaps then they will wonder what "really" the Republicans are all about...and maybe--just maybe--they will realize that these slime are all about making these ignorant fools underpaid wage slaves and think of them in exactly the same way they think of the soldiers they profess to love; ie., ignorant, trailer trash who are stupid enough to go do their bidding. I've given up on this ship of fools.

[opihimoimoi]

oops...dupe

[opihimoimoi]

4. LOL...its those Grand Ole Pervies high on Ding Ding Resuscitation Drugs

Gone Wild...

Sanctimonious Bastards they are

[peacetalksforall]

9. I just looked at Richardson's bio - looks like one wife, Barbara (Flavin) Richardson.

3-3-2 against 1-1-1-1-1-1

Republicans:
3 candidates - eight wives
Democrats:
6 candidates - six wives

Remarrying is not immoral.
Boasting about moral superiority is immoral.

What's important here is being ready with some comebacks to the boasting.

[peacetalksforall]

11. Correction: Six candidates - six spouses

[DemBones DemBones]

17. Excellent point. Bill Clinton is not a wife. nt

[caledesi]

14. Excellent post. You nailed it! nt

[Joe Bacon]

12. Oh that's much too low on the GOP side.

Remember you got to add Newt and his 3 wives and 300 mistresses :evilgrin:

[benddem]

20. Kucinich is on wife no. 3 n/t

[caledesi]

13. She didn't get out. When McCain came home from Nam, his

lst wife (a real looker, they say) was in a severe car accident and lost 3 inches on her height and uses crutches. Ol' John said he met his current wife and cheated on his lst wife with her and divorced his lst wife. Ah, family values.....

[bluedog]

15. Carol McCain

It was Christmas Eve, 1969, while driving along a snowbound street, that she went crashing into a telephone pole: the impact hurled her through the windshield. She lost her left leg, ruptured her spleen, and went through a long series of agonizingly painful operations. Before the accident, she had been a statuesque beauty who worked as a model; she came out of it with four inches subtracted from her height, broken in body – but not in spirit. Her love for her war hero husband forbade her from letting him know anything of her condition: he knew nothing of the accident, and she refused to write him about it since it would only make his burden heavier.


and the question
Moreover, his choice of a new wife was not exactly inconvenient. As the Phoenix New Times put the question:

"Would United States Senator John McCain be a presidential contender if it weren't for his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, heiress to the Hensley liquor fortune? It's doubtful. The senator's wife and – more important – his father-in-law, James Willis Hensley, are very wealthy people."

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j022300.html

[DemBones DemBones]

18. I didn't think my lack of respect for McCain could go any lower, but now

it has. She refused to tell him about her horrible accident -- in which she lost her leg and consequently had to have several agonizingly painful operations-- because she didn't want to burden him while he was a POW. He repaid her by divorcing her for a new trophy wife.


You really ought to start a thread about this. I would gladly add more quotes to it (since the OP and all posts are limited to quoting 4 paragraphs.)

More from the article:

Any man would be lucky to have such a fierce, unbending love: she stuck by him, agitating for his release, and living for the day of his return. Her devotion was repaid with rejection. He learned of her accident on the plane home, and wasted no time in getting rid of her. He was soon back to his old tricks of playing the field – "just as he had at the Naval Academy," says Grann – and soon sought a divorce. He openly acknowledges that his behavior was solely responsible for the break-up of his marriage, and seems to glory in the macho role while simultaneously professing at least some sense of remorse: "I think she has reason to be bitter," McCain told one interviewer.

As for Carol, she avers that "the breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning forty and wanting to be twenty-five again than I do to anything else." This doesn't sound like bitterness; it is more like benevolence, in that it gives her ex-husband the benefit of a doubt and seems to excuse his disloyalty as practically hormonal, or at least fated. A less charitable – and more realistic – appraisal of McCain's motives is that he might have found his physically-impaired spouse more of an albatross than an asset for a man intent on a political career.

<snip>

As a career military man, from a military family, his pay peaked at around $45,000. After retiring in 1980, however, and getting rid of Carol, he swept Cindy Lou Hensley off her feet and moved to Arizona, her home state, "to plunge into the world of politics." While working for his father-in-law, he "was promoting himself as much as he was Budweiser beer. A better job description might have been 'candidate.'" This opportunist on the make was no wild man, sowing his wild oats, but rather a man with a mission, a ruthless man who knew what he wanted – and got it. The New Times put it well: "From Day 1, Hensley money has enabled McCain to be a full-time politician, free from financial concerns." From Day 1 of this campaign, John McCain has posed as a man of character: his supporters have even gone so far as to characterize him as "the Anti-Clinton." This is a lie, and not a white one either. It is the exact opposite of the truth, as his personal history – specifically the way he discarded his first wife like a used-up dish-rag – makes plain as day.

[caledesi]

22. Thanks BD for setting me straight. I knew it was bad, but not

this bad. Poor Carol MCCain!

[DemBones DemBones]

16. I think that the main thing she got out of the marriage was children.

Presumably they had some good times as a couple but how could he desert the woman who waited for him all the years he was a prisoner?

I hope her children love and appreciate her more than "hero" McCain did.

[Toots]

23. I know this is never brought up but he did break as a POW and do the enemy's bidding.

I know that it was a whitewashed and the military now says no man can be immune from torture but the fact remains he sold out his country under torture..

[whistle]

5. But republican focus groups with divorced participants showed

....they won't hold it against their candidates. That must be very comforting

[rurallib]

6. They are having a real difficult time squeezing this batch of losers

inside the narrowly designed morality tent called "republican qualifications for president. And as they try to redesign the tent those who originally built it lose interest in those trying to get in.
BTW in response to the post on McCain. Don't forget how old Bob Dole shit on his first wife after she nurtured him through years of recovery. Shitting on those who love and help you, That is the Republic's way.

[peacetalksforall]

7. Gingrich told one of his wives that he was divorcing her while

she was hospitalized or confined to bed fighting cancer? I remember that from the 90's - people let loose on Gingrich when he grandstanded about the immorality of Pres. Clinton. I haven't been following the stuff about Republican candidates - but, I hope that his divorce announcement has been brought up, if it's been verified.

[AtomicKitten]

8. pretzel logic

that only crazy people in the loop can understand

[sutz12]

10. The real irony here, of course...

is that the only Repub candidate who doesn't have multiple wives to deal with is the Mormon. (Romney)

:shrug:

[DemBones DemBones]

19. That IS funny! nt

[stonebone]

21. LMAO!

[HappyWeasel]

24. lOL...

no wonder why no matter what the far right in this country do, the morals of our country get worse and worse. We are Babylon wrapped up as the Vatican (without the child molesters)!