Jim Webb

[MADem]

29. Quick, no googling--name every President that has been married three times.

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The answer--there hasn't been one. Ever.


And it's not "juvenile gossip." It's a prevailing attitude by people who might be in the minority overall, but they're in the majority when it comes to getting their asses to the polls. Gerald Ford took shit because his WIFE had been married more than once (to an abusive asshole who slapped the crap out of her). Betty was a (gasp) DIVORCEE. Even Saint Ronnie of Reagan had to run the gauntlet on that matter (two marriages and the first one was a famous actress). He was helped by his first wife, whose only comment to ANY question about their relationship was "No comment." She never deviated, not once, and she could have put him in the hurt locker, but she had too much class for that kind of thing.

If you don't think the "Vietnamese First Lady" angle re: a putative Webb presidency wouldn't get any play in the news line-up, you're naive. Wives--current and former--get the treatment. Or are you forgetting that the GOP tried to get Michelle Obama's master's thesis and make something of it?

And I can promise you the GOP (the Think of the Children constituency, certainly) will have a field day with his books--particularly the sex scenes. His opponent would probably send out minions to read the offending passages to church groups far and wide, so that they might be suitably outraged.

While you're "sticking to policy" the GOP would go right for the throat on the personal. It's what they do.