Posted on 02/02/2008 5:21:03 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Flawed Cindy McCain has a grudge list Tony Allen-Mills
ON almost every step of his march towards the Republican nomination, John McCain has relied on the support of his glamorous second wife Cindy. Yet she has not always been a political asset. A Republican victory in November would bring to the White House a formidable but flawed first lady.
McCains marriage has long attracted attention both for the 18-year age gap between husband and wife and for their adopted Asian daughter, who became the focus of one of the most vicious dirty tricks of the 2000 presidential campaign.
The couple have also overcome daunting health problems that included McCains bouts with skin cancer, a stroke suffered by Cindy in 2004, and her admission a decade earlier that she had become so addicted to painkillers that she was stealing them from a medical charity she ran.
Yet somehow the McCains have emerged as a potent and durable political partnership. Cindy McCain was at her husbands side last week as he celebrated the Florida primary victory that has put him at the front of the Republican field.
A former Arizona rodeo beauty queen and daughter of a millionaire Phoenix businessman, Cindy McCain was 25 when she met her future husband at a cocktail party in Hawaii. John McCain was a 43-year-old naval liaison officer travelling with a congressional delegation, his sights already set on a political career.
He was also still married to his first wife Carol, although the couple had recently separated. Carol later attributed the breakdown of the marriage to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again. McCain fell like a brick for Cindy, who was the heir to a brewery distribution business worth millions.
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Fraudo Flips on Gay Rights Flip. Again
While stumping in New Hampshire recently Willard Mitt reportedly extolled the virtues of gay couples raising children by saying that “(t)here are other ways to raise kids thats fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. Thats the American way, to have people have their freedom of choice.” (source: Boston Herald, June 10, 2007)
Zounds. Willard Mitt, in New Hampshire, said that gay couples raising kids is the American way.
This after Willard Mitt, in South Carolina, said that while same-sex couples “are actually having children born to them (i)t’s not right on paper. It’s not right in fact.” (source: Boston Globe, February 18, 2006)
This after Willard Mitt, in Boston, signaled support forgay pride.
Of course while in New Hampshire Romney never said that gay couples raising children was “right.” He only said that it was “the American way.”
So is Willard Mitt really saying that he supports gay couples raising children? Or that he is against the American way?
Only his weatherman knows for sure.
http://romneyisafraud.blogspot.com/
Ah! Sorta like back to the good old bays of 11 June 1967 when the anti-miscegenation laws were still in effect in:
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
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