DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
Divorce and extra marital affairs are no longer the fatal obstacles to gaining the Presidency that they have historically been. Ronald Reagan became the first divorcee elected President in 1980, in part because his idealized 28 year marriage to his second wife obliterated the divorce taboo. Bill Clinton attained the Presidency in 1992, in spite of tape recordings of him and his longtime blond bombshell lover engaged in pillow talk. They simply generated a collective yawn from the public since Clinton never postured as a holier-than-thou family values guy. His lack of hypocrisy, tons of charisma and connection to the needy easily overcame his marital transgressions.
Newt Gingrich, the current GOP Presidential frontrunner, pushes the moral forgiveness factor to a new threshold. He cheated on wife No. 1 with soon to be wife No. 2, and even discussed his impending to divorce from wife No. 1 while she was recovering from uterine cancer treatment. Wife No. 2 soon fell victim to Newt's adulterous affair with eventual wife No. 3, the current Mrs. Potential First Lady. He was carrying on this new marital peccadillo as he was preaching family values as a reason to impeach his nemesis, President, Bill Clinton. When wife No. 2 asked him how he could preach family values during the Clinton impeachment, Gingrich replied: "It doesn't matter what I do...people need to hear what I have to say."
Wife No. 2 apparently also fell victim to Gingrich's aversion to sickly spouses, having acquired MS on her long road to divorce court.
Full disclosure: I could still vote for the obviously brilliant Gingrich to be my President if he wasn't a heartless, compulsively lying, corrupt and soulless political creature; possibly the least qualified human being to seek the Presidency in my 60 years of following politics, his marital woes notwithstanding. I fully understand that potentially great political leaders can compartmentalize family dysfunction from successful public service. God only knows what skeletons lurk behind Obama's bedroom doors, but I will will support him to my last campaign dollar.
But I do have a word of advise for Newt's current better half: DON'T GET SICK.
Newt Gingrich, the current GOP Presidential frontrunner, pushes the moral forgiveness factor to a new threshold. He cheated on wife No. 1 with soon to be wife No. 2, and even discussed his impending to divorce from wife No. 1 while she was recovering from uterine cancer treatment. Wife No. 2 soon fell victim to Newt's adulterous affair with eventual wife No. 3, the current Mrs. Potential First Lady. He was carrying on this new marital peccadillo as he was preaching family values as a reason to impeach his nemesis, President, Bill Clinton. When wife No. 2 asked him how he could preach family values during the Clinton impeachment, Gingrich replied: "It doesn't matter what I do...people need to hear what I have to say."
Wife No. 2 apparently also fell victim to Gingrich's aversion to sickly spouses, having acquired MS on her long road to divorce court.
Full disclosure: I could still vote for the obviously brilliant Gingrich to be my President if he wasn't a heartless, compulsively lying, corrupt and soulless political creature; possibly the least qualified human being to seek the Presidency in my 60 years of following politics, his marital woes notwithstanding. I fully understand that potentially great political leaders can compartmentalize family dysfunction from successful public service. God only knows what skeletons lurk behind Obama's bedroom doors, but I will will support him to my last campaign dollar.
But I do have a word of advise for Newt's current better half: DON'T GET SICK.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 6:17 PM
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