Posted on 02/02/2008 7:31:43 PM PST by Turnabout
No, that was Hillary's husband.
Yes, it would be all over ....
Cindy’s about as bad as her dishonest, cheating husband.
Can you say Keating Five?
Many people go through all sorts of horrible things and NEVER use drugs or alcohol to cope. Alcoholics and addicts do no matter what is going on.
Give me Mitt's wife any day. There is a woman with dignity, self respect, and carries herself with a quiet strength. I have never heard a blaming word come out of her mouth and no excuses. Mitt has a wonderful wife and mother of his children. She is first lady material. How is Cindy McCain gonna handle all the pressure if her husband becomes president?
Mitt chose a good, solid, beautiful, integrity based wife and I suspect given his success in the past with his great choices, he will continue to do as such when he is in the white house.
Why the sympathy? Because his wife blames her drug use on him?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/John_McCain_interview_on_April_24%2C_1974.jpg
To be fair, he wasn’t a complete troll. This was just a few years before he married her. And, although of course I don’t approve of adultery, but iirc he and his wife were pretty much divorced when he met her. Separated and all that.
Sheesh, she gets addicted to something she has to steal, while there’s breweries of beer around her.
Not sure that’s completely accurate. From a 2000 NYT article:
In the Navy, many considered it appropriate for a swashbuckling pilot to pick up a girlfriend here or there, and stories began to spread about Mr. McCain and young women. But Mr. McCain was discreet in his indiscretions: he did not carouse with young women on Capitol Hill or take dates to the Monocle, a bar near the Senate that he often went to, and he did not drink himself silly.
“Some people in politics need a drink to loosen up,” said Mr. Hart, noting that he had never seen Mr. McCain even close to drunk. “John’s loose all the time. He never needed it.”
Mr. McCain has acknowledged running around with women and accepted responsibility for the breakup of the marriage, without going into details. But his supporters and his biographer, Robert Timberg, all suggest that the marriage had already effectively ended and that the couple had separated by the time he met Cindy, his present wife.
That might be the most soothing way of explaining a politician’s divorce from a disabled wife and his remarriage to a wealthy heiress, but it does not jibe with accounts of family members and friends.
John and Carol McCain had separated once briefly after they moved to Washington, when he moved his gear into his mother’s house on Connecticut Avenue. That was the first hint that Joe McCain, John’s younger brother, had of any marital problems, for neither John nor Carol confided much about personal problems.
“I remember asking him one time,” Joe McCain recalled. “I said: ‘You don’t look so happy. You want to talk about it?’ And he said, ‘No, pal.’ “
That separation lasted about two weeks and was not repeated until the final split, said their son Andy, and even close family friends never knew about it. To outsiders, who often visited the McCain household, the marriage seemed as close as ever.
“They were definitely living together as man and wife when I was there,” recalled Mr. Smith, the former instructor pilot, who moved to Washington and lived with the McCains in their home from about February through May 1979. “And there were no signs of strain.
“For somebody to say that they were separated or at each other’s throats is just nonsense,” Mr. Smith said.
Yet at precisely the time that Mr. Smith was a guest in what appeared to be a happy household, in April 1979, Mr. McCain accompanied a group of senators on a trip to China. The Navy threw a big cocktail party for the group during a stopover in Honolulu.
“John and I were talking, and then somebody tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around and exchanged a few words,” said Albert A. Lakeland, then a Senate staff member. “When I turned around, John was gone. I looked around, and he was making a beeline for this very attractive blond woman*.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/022700wh-gop-mccain.html
*The future Cindy McCain
Yeah, maybe thinking about it, the sympathy for me wouldn’t transfer to him. The more I think about him, the more I distrust him. He doesn’t need conservatives, and won’t cater to us when elected.
Or maybe it was the cash and connections to launch him in politics...
What a thread. I thought for sure that I had blundered onto DU.
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