Nancy Reagan has endorsed John McCain, but I sense she has been coerced into being a good Republican, but has had to hold her nose in doing so. Secretly, McCain, who is considered a “family values” candidate, has got to be considered by Nancy to be a scumbag.

The Reagan’s friendship with the senator was damaged in the late ‘70’s when McCain decided to divorce his first wife, Carol.

who was particularly close to the Reagans, and within weeks marry Cindy Hensley, the young heiress to a lucrative Arizona beer distributorship. The Reagans rushed to help Carol, finding her a new home in Southern California with the family of Reagan aide Edwin Meese III and a series of political and White House jobs to ease her through that difficult time.

McCain has been caught in several lies about the circumstances surrounding his divorce. In his 2002 memior “Worth Fighting For,” McCain wrote:

"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."

However, the court documents revealed a much 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.

By all appearances, the senator was quite happily married. So when they learned of the sudden divorce, the Reagans were

stunned to learn otherwise, according to several close aides.

Although she has remained silent about the issue, one can only imagine Nancy Reagan’s bitterness over John McCain’s treatment of her close friend, Carol.

Read the entire article here.

It's funny seeing "traditional family values" conservatives lining up behind this guy. They talk a good game, but then they turn on people like Clinton and Obama, who never left their wives. And they support people like McCain and Reagan, who did leave their wives. Very strange.

My,my, my! It does seem that "Straight talker McCain" does have a wee bit of a problem with telling the truth, doesn't he? With all his flip-flops, the outings by Factcheck, forgetting what he said the day before, it seems this is an ingrained problem.

shirley:

My,my, my! It does seem that "Straight talker McCain" does have a wee bit of a problem with telling the truth, doesn't he? With all his flip-flops, the outings by Factcheck, forgetting what he said the day before, it seems this is an ingrained problem.

For more of his lies, go<A href="http://www.spectator.org­/blogger.asp?BlogID=11071">her­e</a>

And <A href="http://nielsenhayden.com­/makinglight/archives/010305.h­tml">here</a>

He’s also dishonest about his being a <i>maverick</i>. Last year, he voted alongside Bush over 80% of the time and while in the Senate voted alongside the GOP 85% of the time.

Arkady:

It's funny seeing "traditional family values" conservatives lining up behind this guy. They talk a good game, but then they turn on people like Clinton and Obama, who never left their wives. And they support people like McCain and Reagan, who did leave their wives. Very strange.

You know how I feel about GOP Family Values Hypocrites, many of whom pointed the finger at Clinton for his moral indiscrepencies.

Last I read it was 95% of the time McCain voted with Bush policies. He also, along with PNAC, was calling for invading Iraq in '98. He'd certainly be a loose cannon on the WH with his temper and ties to PNAC.

Arkady:

It's funny seeing "traditional family values" conservatives lining up behind this guy. They talk a good game, but then they turn on people like Clinton and Obama, who never left their wives. And they support people like McCain and Reagan, who did leave their wives. Very strange.

The man fell in and out of love. Its not a big scandal, like getting a blow job in the oval office with your wife in the First Lady's office close by. It's not like he tried to obstruct justice and ended up in deep shit. ooops, that was BillJob Clinton, not McCain.... Sorry.,

larbabe:

Arkady:

It's funny seeing "traditional family values" conservatives lining up behind this guy. They talk a good game, but then they turn on people like Clinton and Obama, who never left their wives. And they support people like McCain and Reagan, who did leave their wives. Very strange.

You know how I feel about GOP Family Values Hypocrites, many of whom pointed the finger at Clinton for his moral indiscrepencies.

You don't see any difference? Is Bill Clinton married to Monica Lewensky?

lol.

He's not a candidate for president. Although I was one of the first to criticize Bill Clinton for Monicagate, he deserves praise for his leadership.

Clinton's years in office will be looked upon as one of the most prosperous times in the history of this country. Not only was the inherited national debt whittled away to a fraction of what it was before he took office, but our budget was in the black. Most historians point to the 1993 tax plan as the decisive factor in the turn-around. Not one Republican voted in favor of the tax plan.

The country benefited under Clinton's leadership in many other ways as well. Teen pregnancy dropped 22 percent. Between 1993 and 1999, the crime rate dropped by roughly the same amount, and the welfare rolls declined 49 percent. Divorce, teen drinking, teen suicide, and abortion also grew more rare. As the magazine of the conservative American Enterprise Institute put it in 1999, "The alarm bells rung by cultural conservatives seem to have been heeded by many Americans, and a new pattern of recovery and even reversal has emerged."

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Bush, however, has destroyed the country. We're spending $billions in a needless war, our national budget deficit and national debt have skyrocketed...and oh yeah, the abortion rate is up for the first time (Under Clinton it dropped by 21 percent). I could go on about corporate malfeasance and White House scandals, but you are well aware of them. Bush is considered the worst president ever by most historians. If elected president, we can be certain that McCain, who voted alongside Bush 85% of the time, will continue with Bush's failed economic policies.

I'm suprized you haven't heard from Hillary supporters on this one.

Hillary supporters are too busy forming yet another new organization to push for a floor vote for Hillary, and campaigning against Obama - - even though Hillary has asked her loyal followers to get behind Obama.

The right-wing corruption just boggles my mind. If a man gives in to temptation and has some sexual pleasure outside of his marriage, that's supposedly a scandal deserving impeachment, notwithstanding his contrition and the moral seriousness he musters to keep his marriage together. But if a man instead irredeemably betrays his marriage vows by leaving his sick wife for his healthier, younger, richer mistress, and then has the audacity to marry his mistress, that's no big deal.

That's about as far away from "traditional family values" as a man can get. For most of the history of western tradition, there was some tolerance for powerful men having occasional trysts, but divorce was seen as the unspeakable sin of man putting asunder what God had joined. In fact, before the time of Henry VIII, McCain's "second marriage" would have been seen as nothing but a meaningless attempt to paper over the fact he'd chosen to live in sin with his mistress -- since that first marriage was holy and inviolable, rendering the second one nothing but an obscene charade.

I guess Republicans have their own "traditional" values, though. They involve taking your marriage vows seriously only as long as they're politically, socially, and personally convenient. Pity the poor woman who gives her heart to one of those vile perverts.