[Plutarch]

It's OK if a poor nobody marries a younger woman?

Moot point. There is no such thing as a poor old guy marrying an attractive younger woman.

I don't cotton to people who pass judgement on other people's relationships--regardless of age and income!

Oooh, I am passing judgement, how intolerant of me.

The whole idea that those men who become rich and famous should dump their first wife and then marry a woman nearly half their age is repungnant to me. It is not any less so when the person in question has a high ACU voting record. Sorry, it is the same reaction that you have when you look at the photograph of them together. You do not get the same warm fuzzies elicited by a photograph of a married couple of similar ages.

Let us suppose that instead of 35, she was 25 when they married. Wouldn't you too have passed judgement on that? Okay, what about 18? She'd be an adult, after all. Excessive age discrepency is at some point disturbing to everyone, people only vary on how much disparity it takes to make it disturbing.

[Mariebl]

The whole idea that those men who become rich and famous should dump their first wife and then marry a woman nearly half their age is repungnant to me.

I'm feeling a little baffled by this. So far I haven't seen the slightest hint that 'he dumped his first wife.' They got a divorce. We don't know whose idea it was, as far as I know.

Also, saying 'and then marry....etc.' implies that the two events, divorce and remarriage, happened in fairly close proximity. I know that wasn't what you meant to imply.

[No Blue States]

“Sorry, it is the same reaction that you have when you look at the photograph of them together. You do not get the same warm fuzzies elicited by a photograph of a married couple of similar ages.”

Well stated. It will cost him some votes and the opposition will milk it for all its worth, then some.

It will be part of his baggage for some voters. How many? Who knows.