“In Illinois’ 2004 Senate race, when the popular conservative Jack Ryan looked certain to win on the issues, the left attacked him for having grasped at straws to save his marriage and avoid a divorce.”
Well, that is certainly one way to rewrite history. For those who may not be aware of the details of that situation, the “grasping at straws to save his marriage” amounted to (allegedly) trying to cajole his wife to go to sex clubs and engage in public sex acts in the presence of (and maybe with?) strangers.
No, Boogieman, you’re accepting the Obama shills’ claim of what it was.
The man was a good looking but unexciting midwesterner, married to a gorgeous Hollywood actress, and he saw his marriage failing. He thought she was being lured by the excitement of Hollywood, so he, in a desperate attempt to show that he was more hip than he was, took her to a couple of wild clubs. He mistakenly thought that was what she wanted. (and they turned out to be wilder than he realized or intended).
Instead of being applauded for having tried - however clumsily - to save his marriage, it became the only sex scandal in American history that didn’t involve actual sex.
A PR disaster, and the GOP’s inept response led to the national stature of the very undeserving Barack Obama.