I digg Pink.

Pink rocks.

With McCain’s health problems plus his age, Palin is a real threat.
But her loser running mate is a direct threat already:

McCain’s Adultery
By Cathy Meyer, About.com Guide to Divorce Support
http://divorcesupport.about.co…..ultery.htm

This is the way I view it. Thirty years ago, John McCain wanted Cindy. He did whatever he had to do to get Cindy. That included destroying his family. Leaving a wife, someone who had waited for him while he was a POW, had been severely injured in a car accident and was quite dependent on her husband. He broke up the family of his young children because his desire for a woman 17 years his junior was more important than the needs of the woman he was already married to and the needs of his children.

John McCain now wants to be president. We know from his past actions that when McCain wants something he is willing to go about getting it in an immoral way. His refusal to openly answer questions about the failure of his first marriages causes me to question whether his belief system has changed. Does he still believe that it is OK to get what you want in spite of whom you have to hurt in the process?

and

The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind
London Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem…..ehind.html

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.

‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.

‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.

‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’

One old friend of the McCains said: ‘Carol always insists she is not bitter, but I think that’s a defence mechanism. She also feels deeply in his debt because in return for her agreement to a divorce, he promised to pay for her medical care for the rest of her life.’

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But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’

McCain’s broken marriage fractured other ties as well
http://articles.latimes.com/20…..-divorce11
Los Angeles Times By Ralph Vartabedian and Richard A. Serrano
July 11, 2008

In his 2002 memoir, “Worth the Fighting For,” McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley.

“I spent as much time with Cindy in Washington and Arizona as our jobs would allow,” McCain wrote. “I was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980.”

An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had “cohabited” until Jan. 7 of that year – or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.

Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.

Until McCain filed for divorce, the Reagans and their inner circle assumed he was happily married, and they were stunned to learn otherwise, according to several close aides.

“Everybody was upset with him,” recalled Nancy Reynolds, a top aide to the former president who introduced him to McCain.

By contrast, some of McCain’s friends, including the Senate aide who was at the reception where McCain first met Hensley, believed he was separated at that time.

Lying, cheating snake in the grass.
(Apologies to all the snakes.)

FWIW, Ted Sampley is not the most credible of “witnesses” in dealing with McCain. He was a Swift Boater who trashed Kerry and tussled with McCain because he (Sampley) was using the Vietnam Memorial logo in a for profit business scam.

Thank you so much for that! Reminds me of Newt Gingrich who, according to his first wife Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, the Republican former speaker of the house discussed divorce details while she was in the hospital recuperating from cancer surgery;Gingrich does not recall the incident. The couple divorced in 1981.

Within months he married Marianne Ginther, and after a six year long affair with his congressional aide Callista Besik, 23 years his junior, messily divorced Marianne.

Gingrich was conducting the affair with Bisek during the Lewisnky scandal, but says his actions against Clinton were based on Clinton’s perjury, not the actual affair with Lewinsky.

What Gingrich’s story, and McCain’s (and Edwards’ and Bill Clinton’s and those of other politician from time immemorial) show is that members of both parties are human beings with all failings and struggles that make us human; that members of both parties, like all of us occasionally are confronted with, and succumb to, some if not all of the Seven Deadly Sins.

However since they are in highly visible positions, representing and reflecting the platforms of their parties and constituents, politicians are held to higher moral standards. And some elected officials, like their constituents do not suffer hypocrisy lightly.

But does a politician having an affair mean s/he will not govern well? Only history will tell. But a politician’s personal life is always the weak point in any election.

“Family values” doesn’t always mean Mom and Dad and Buddy and Sis, with Rover and Fluffy all happy–that is a shimmering chimera in America, in her small towns and big cities. family values are more about loving and respecting, caring and honoring than maintaining some sort of four-square ideal.

One thing we have seen and learned is that families come in many shapes and forms. Family dynamics are complex, as are romantic relationships.

However casting stones is never a good idea, because they do tend to ricochet, something those loudly screaming “family values” need to keep in mind.