Yeah, look at what happened the last time we ran a candidate who had been divorced.
Yeah, look at what happened the last time we ran a candidate who had been divorced.
Theres nothing inherently wrong about divorce. Luckily, Reagan didn't do it when his wife was dying of cancer.
Yeah, look at what happened the last time we ran a candidate who had been divorced.
An interesting question. Reagan's was a Hollywood divorce a good 30 years earlier, and no one feels sorry for anyone from Hollywood. People see the stars as indestructable idols, and don't think seriously about either party as a victim.
Today, moral issues and moral consequences are legitimately front-and-center in a way they definitely were not in 1980. And from a merely tactical point of view, a Republican needs to be purer than Caesar's wife, because he needs to survive the attacks of (pro-divorce) media types, who will attack him for being divorced.
Someone like Santorum, rather than Newt, will have more selling power.