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To: rhombus
So Reagan got divorced the “right” way and Newt got divorced the “wrong” way. OK, fine. Whatever makes people feel better.

Divorce isn't the issue. Infidelity is. How importantly someone considers oaths is pretty damn important in choosing a president.

Reagan divorced Jane Wyman in 1948 and met Nancy Davis in 1951. Ron and Nancy remained married, and by all accounts very much in love, for a half-century.

Newt, on the other hand, had wife #2 lined up long before he left #1, and #3 lined up long before he left #2. Callista would be well-advised to remember the words of Oscar Wilde: "When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy,"

Divorce isn't much of an issue any more. Folks sometimes marry too young and hastily, so I'm inclined -- as I believe most Americans are --to let them take a Mulligan on a first marriage. But a pattern of hopping from one bed to another raises serious questions of character, and that's one issue Newt (and Rudy Giuliani) won't shake easily.

58 posted on 04/17/2007 8:55:48 AM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: ReignOfError

Fine, you specified “the right way”. I hope it made you feel better.


59 posted on 04/17/2007 8:59:28 AM PDT by rhombus
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