Posted on 05/25/2011 2:35:17 PM PDT by Syncro
Read more at AnnCoulter.ComWHY LARRY KING WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT
May 25, 2011
Like would-be yentas trying to set you up on dates with their divorced friends, the political class is constantly trying to foist divorced candidates on the Republican Party, authoritatively assuring us that Americans don't have a problem with divorce anymore. Let's examine the truth of that claim.
Inasmuch as no serious Republican candidate for president is currently divorced, the facts can be considered without violating the 11th Commandment to never speak ill of a fellow Republican.
(That's unless you consider Newt Gingrich a serious candidate, which I don't -- although as far as being fodder for late-night comedians, he's the man to beat.)
We're always being chirpily informed, as an article in The New York Times put it, that when it comes to the presidency, "(d)ivorce, of course, is old hat."
But strangely, all the prominent divorced politicians listed to prove that point are the losers: John McCain, John Kerry, Bob Dole, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Chris Dodd -- all the way back to Adlai Stevenson.
In fact, there's only one exception to the rule that Americans don't want a divorced president: Ronald Reagan.
Although Reagan is always cited as if he broke the divorce barrier in presidential elections the same way Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, this would be true only if Jackie Robinson: (1) were also the last black person ever to play professional baseball; and (2) no one knew he was black, something like Bryant Gumbel.
Many voters didn't even realize Reagan was divorced. And if they knew, then they also knew that Reagan's wife left him against his wishes -- according to their children, their friends, and newspaper headlines at the time that blared: "JANE WYMAN TO ASK DIVORCE."
That's a far cry from Bob Dole coming home and announcing to his stunned wife of 23 years, "I want out."
It's also a far cry from John McCain catting around on, and then divorcing, the wife who waited for him for 5 1/2 years while he was in a POW camp. While he was gone, she got in a car accident, which resulted in her losing inches off her model-height as well as her svelte figure.
It's a long way from Newt giving his first wife divorce papers as she was in the hospital recovering from surgery on a potentially cancerous tumor and then turning around and cheating on his second wife.
Those divorces are deeply depressing.
One gets the impression that a lot of reporters are fantasizing about divorcing their wives, so eager are they to make divorce sound as American as apple pie. Deviants always try to exaggerate their numbers so as to not feel quite so deviant. Ask any Ron Paul supporter.
Not on the excerpt list, but I’ll cut her & you some slack, for purity of intent.
Good article.
I agree with Ann 100 percent. It is revolting how Republicans even conservatives on here try to foist the marriage losers on us. And I really get disgusted when they pull the ridiculous Ronald Reagan card. I will never vote for a divorced president again. I never voted for Reagan (too young) and Unfortunately I did go against my principles and voted for McCain. NEVER AGAIN!!!! How really disgusting that Newt and Donald were even considered.
John Kerry don’t count. He’s a poodle and poodles can’t be married or divorced only passed on to different owners who support them.
Slacker, don’t give me that purity of intent stuff.
It’ll scare people.
Yea, she passes the muster(d) on this one.
I’ll ketch up with u l8r.
Ronald Reagan was an exception because a) he was divorced by his wife, pretty much; and b) because people can sometimes change for the better, although it’s not something to count on with politicians. Reagan changed for the better over the course of his life and developed solid moral values.
There are always questions when you look at a marriage breakup from the outside. But I think McCain’s treatment of his first wife was disgusting. I think the same can be said of Newt. I think John Kerry just wanted to marry more and more money. And so forth.
People can change for the better, and I think Reagan did. Or people can change for the worse, and I think most of those other politicians did. Certainly Newt did.
Where does that leave Bill Clinton or JFK?
I voted for Sarah, McCain was just an albatross hanging around her neck.
The Ancient Multi-Marryin-er
Don’t make go all “FReeperBeater” on yer arse! ;-)
But she cannot even mention the name that shall not be spoken when listing undivorced presidential contenders.
Massive philandering is totally ok if you’re a Democrat.
John Edwards mistake was covering it up until after the election.
If he’d brought the bastard child on the campaign tour, Baraq might still be Senator from Illinois.
But to answer your question literally, JFK is dead and Clinton is (to leftists) a highly respect international statesman. Which just shows how accepting leftists are of philandering.
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." --Jonathan Swift
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"Like would-be yentas trying to set you up on dates with their divorced friends, the political class is constantly trying to foist divorced candidates on the Republican Party, authoritatively assuring us that Americans don't have a problem with divorce anymore. Let's examine the truth of that claim." - Ann CoulterI know of ONE potential candidate who have never been divorced...
...and she even has a two-hour DOCUMENTARY about her political history coming out next month......premiering in Iowa -- before expanding the release to New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada:
Palin's Secret Weapon: New Film to Premiere in JuneSee also the many discussion threads posted about "Sarah Palin: The Movie!" on FR multiple times.
Stevenson was also divorced by his wife.
There was much speculation in the Fifties about whether Stevenson, a divorced man, could be elected president.
One answer was that because his wife had sought the divorce, she couldn't be elected president.
Unfortunately for Stevenson, voters didn't make that distinction.
That's the look I imagine her giving me...
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