Posted on 01/30/2008 3:17:10 PM PST by jdm
‘America’s next president won’t be its first president of Italian ancestry (as Rudy Giuliani hopes)’
Lol. Okay. Mitt will be the first with Mexican ancestry. Whatever that means.
Thanks for making my night. :)
Sounds good to me. Can you follow up on this please? :-)
financial support for her ongoing medical treatments
What health issues did his first wife have?
Well, in any case, we’ll know in about 6 days, (or maybe not?) Neither man left standing is palatable to me, but I will vote for the eventual nominee.
The author makes the point of Mitt and how well he did in the GOP debates, being “presidential”, while his rivals were “trying too hard”. I wonder how much stock the average voter puts in the debates?
It’s interesting how much has been said about Rudy and his marriages, and many who said Newt could never run because he dumped his wife, yet so few even are aware that McCain dumped his first wife for a much younger, and richer woman.
UGH!
On his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam in 1967, McCain was shot down and captured.
While he was imprisoned, Carol was in an auto wreck (1969), thrown through her car’s windshield and left seriously injured. Despite her injures, she refused to allow her POW husband to be notified about her condition, fearing that such news would not be good for him while he was being held prisoner.
When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. The accident “left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight.”
In 1979 at a military reception in Honolulu, McCain met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a very wealthy politically-connected Arizona family. Cindy’s father, Jim, founded the Hensley and Company, the nation’s third-largest Anheuser-Busch distributor.
McCain described their first meeting, “She was lovely, intelligent and charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident. I monopolized her attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intruding on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening’s end, I was in love.”
While still married to Carol, McCain began an adulterous relationship with Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 — just a month after dumping Carol and securing a divorce. The newlyweds honeymooned in Hawaii.
McCain followed his young, millionairess wife back to Arizona where her father helped catapult McCain into politics,
I voted for Mitt in the early voting here in TN.
She was almost killed in a car accident while he was a POW. Even while having several surgeries to try to recover she never wanted McCain to worry while he was in the POW camp, so he was never told. He returned to find his model-wife 4 inches shorter from the injuries, walking with a bad limp and having gained a lot of weight.
I’ve read that she blames the break-up on the fact that at 40, he really wanted to be 25 again.
NEVER reported by the ENEMEDIA, yet Rudy was raked over the coals.
I am not and have never been a Rudy supporter, but the absolute hypocrisy is sickening!
Mitt is as far as I go. McCain is just too much for me. What are we to do?
I can hear the fat lady tuning up back stage, but I don’t think she will be singing for Romney.
Not enough time for Mitt to catch McCain.
Thing is that McCain will win blue states in front of us, and thus capture the GOP nomination. But he won’t win those states in the general election.
Preident Hillary or Obama.
The media is waiting ‘til he gets the nomination before they start deconstructing McCain. He has almost all the same negatives that Hillary does, thereby innoculating her against charges about her marriage, corruption, etc. It’s gonna get ugly.
This is an interesting article that tells some about the period after McCain came home. It includes both good and bad. I am not impressed about what he did to his first wife, nor by the fact that a good friend of his while he was a Senate liason was the one and only Gary Hart (we Coloradans remember him well, eh?)
I found this part quite interesting (from his Senate liason days, before his divorce):
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.
NY Times: “P.O.W. to Power Broker: A Chapter Most Telling”
(February 27, 2000)
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/022700wh-gop-mccain.html
Wanted Thompson, will settle for Romney, will run away from McCain.
From your mouth to God’s ears!
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