Posted on 07/11/2008 9:07:57 AM PDT by mngran2
Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement.
"Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op.
In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years." But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain's decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was particularly close to the Reagans, and within weeks marry Cindy Hensley, the young heiress to a lucrative Arizona beer distributorship.
McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record.
In his 2002 memoir, "Worth the Fighting For," McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley.
"I spent as much time with Cindy in Washington and Arizona as our jobs would allow," McCain wrote. "I was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980."
An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had "cohabited" until Jan. 7 of that year -- or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.
Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.
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She endorsed McCain, didn’t she?
Right now, McCain needs to worry about the fracture between him and Phil Gramm and between him and the conservative wing of the party.
The LA Times prefers politicians who carry on serial affairs without divorcing their wives.
McCain thinks he can win without us.
Rather than weasel around with bogus dates, they should’ve just acknowledged “homewrecker” status and not tried to pretend otherwise. Everyone already knows, anyway.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LA Times begins its character assassination. By the way, since when would a questionable timing on marriage be a problem for the left who doesn’t much stock in the sacrament anyway?
McCain’s first wife has a McCain bumper sticker on her car and that’s enough for me. To make assumptions as to what went on in a marriage is unacceptable to me, especially something that happened decades ago. It’s a straw dog and I can’t believe we’re playing into it.
Scary to think that is his senior economic advisor.
So are the dates and the questions about his divorce and re-marriage, valid?
Yes she did. See post 5 for the real story. The LA Times did not give the full quote (despite saying they did) and made it sound different than what Nancy said.
You really can't get around the "Newt Gingrich-ness" of all this.
Scarier to think McCain thinks he can continue to throw his people under the bus.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of stuff to be scared of in this election.
The reporter supplies documentation--like he would expect to be checked. I think it's probably accurate.
Men generally try to assert that they left the first before they romanced the second to put their new wives in a more respectable light. I respect his taking responsibility for his selfishness, but I kind of snicker when he waffles to try to keep Cindy from "homewrecker" status.
I did not suggest they weren't. Who knows though. Considering how they misrepresented Nancy's endorsement, I would not trust their dates.
Dirt on McCain from a long-time ago while ignoring conflicts in stories on Obama’s birth, education, history, etc. Typical LA Slimes.
This article was posted on FR a few minutes ago and was deleted by mods. I guess they don’t like it.
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