I guess these Republican leaders are not typical...
Any "Fact" from any Conservative\Republican\ source is suspect. Republicans gave up their credibility years ago. The public has discovered that they will do anything, especially lie, to retain power....
Goldwater is turning over in his grave, Give me an old time Eisenhower Republican and I may vote republican again... but not while this bunch of nutters has control of the party
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One of the more interesting statistics in the 2008 presidential campaign comes from the marital statuses of the candidates.
On the Democratic side, front-runners Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson are all still on their first marriages, rocky though at least one of them has been. Chris Dodd is on his second, having been divorced from his first wife. Joseph Biden lost his first wife and their infant daughter to a car accident in 1966 that also seriously injured their two sons, but married again eleven years later and is still married to his second wife after thirty years. Only one marriage is mentioned for Mike Gravel, though I think he may have been married before (if anyone knows for sure, let me know; it's been surprisingly difficult to find out much about his personal life online); he was alleged to have been involved in the Elizabeth Ray scandal, but has denied it. Dennis Kucinich is on his third marriage, having been divorced twice; he is now married to a woman three decades his junior.
On the Republican side, only Mike Huckabee, Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney are still on their first wives, and none of these gentlemen are among the front-runners. (Romney's the Steve Forbes of 2008. Lots of money, no chance.) Former front-runner John McCain married his second wife (18 years his junior) almost immediately after divorcing his first one in 1980. Current front-runner Rudy Giuliani had his first marriage to Regina Peruggi annulled so he could wed local New York TV personality Donna Hanover, who assisted his rise to power; that marriage did not last, and he is now on his third marriage, this time with Judith Nathan; the wives keep getting younger in five-year increments. Up-and-comer Fred Thompson divorced his first wife and has two small children by his second wife, who is a quarter-century his junior. As for Newt Gingrich, he's on his third wife, with whom he cheated on his second (with whom he cheated on his first, Jackie — who he divorced when she was still groggy from major cancer surgery). Side note about Newt: His third wife (Callista Bisek) is Catholic, and to please her he tried to get his second marriage officially annuled in the Catholic church — even though neither he nor his second wife were or are Catholic. (Newt's wives, like Rudy's, keep getting younger in finest trophy-spouse fashion: he's a good 23 years older than his current wife.) |
