The difference between Dems and Reps and how they deal with the women in their lives.
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Oliver, that is a cheap shot. There are many examples of Republicans who have admirable marital relationships. I always kind of admired the Fords for their bond.
This kind of post is equivalent to Republicans trying to paint all Democrats as philanderers because JFK and Clinton were unfaithful.
Taranto put this together from Andrew Sullivan:
Once you decide a guy can walk on water,it’s easy to believe he can feed 5000 with a basket of loaves and fishes.
Andrew Sullivan is a fucking idiot, this a revelation how?
I kinda agree with z_adura. It’s a bit of a stretch to tar every republican with the “family values” of Gingrich, Giuliani, Foley, Livingston, etc. Not much of a stretch, but a stretch.
It is worth noting the irony, however: John Edwards can’t advocate for the poor if he owns a big house, but Reagan, Gingrich, etc. can pontificate about values and character even if they have left a string of broken marriages and estranged children in their wake.
Also, Sullivan may be a fucking idiot, but I agree with him on this one. The Edwards’ decision probably depended on a lot of factors that we on the outside are incompetent to judge. They deserve support and applause for whichever path they choose.
I also like how he rips Coulter a new one. That is an excellent public service.
How did Teddy Kennedy “Deal” with the women in his life?
He killed one, not sure about the others….
Is Edwards a bad guy because he won’t set aside his Presidential ambitions to be by his dying wife’s side, or is he a good guy because he won’t set aside his Presidential ambitions to be by his dying wife’s side?
Discuss.
Perhaps a better question to ask would be, how did Ethel and Jackie Kennedy and Hillary Clinton deal with the men in their lives?
Curious, isn’t it, that while the Kennedys are revered (dare I say worshipped?) by Democrats, and Hillary is held aloft as an icon by feminists, all of these women are really classic gold-diggers, lured by wealth and power. Their lives are enriched by the political and social capital acquired by virtue of their marriages, and they patiently endure humiliation and repeatedly eat the “excrement” sandwich handed to them by their husbands, so as not to jeopardize their husband’s (and by proxy, their) careers.
Not exactly “I am woman, hear me roar” feminism, is it?
Another interesting contrast is that men like Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are worshipped by feminists as defenders of the rights of women, even though both men are the worst kind of boorish patriarchs that the radical feminists of the 1970’s vowed repeatedly to disempower.
And curiously, Newt Gingrich was never held up as a standard -bearer by feminists. Rather, he was portrayed as part of the knuckle-dragging Neanderthal crowd who wanted to keep women at home, barefoot and pregnant. So in that sense, I suppose one could say that Newt was at least consistent with his character, or more accurately, caricature.