Cecilie1200
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Not really. He didn't bring a yellow legal pad, but he did go and talk to her about a divorce. She had earlier had cancer, and was in the hospital for the removal of a benign growth.
He also left his second wife after she got MS.
You try again.
So basically, it happened . . . except that it didn't happen.
Got it.
Basically, there are some details in the cartoon that are wrong. But Newt's wife did have cancer, and being a rational person, I understand that after cancer, removal of a growth is a major health scare, but in spite of that, Newt talked to his wife while she was in the hospital about a divorce. Then he left another wife who was sick. And now, in his 60s, he's decided he can "settle down".
Basically, you want to excoriate Democrats for an alleged lack of morality, but defend Newt's incredibly self-centered behavior.
Basically, you're trying to play both sides of the issue, and getting caught.
"Newt divorced a woman who at one point in her life had cancer" is an entirely different thing from "Newt divorced his wife while she had cancer". Likewise, "Newt talked to his wife while she was in the hospital for a biopsy" is an entirely different thing from "Newt served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital for a biopsy". Next, "divorced a woman who was sick" is a different thing from "divorced her because she was sick". At what point did one become morally obligated to remain married to someone one doesn't like simply because that person has an illness?
And finally, I have NEVER "excoriated Democrats for a lack of morality", at least not on the subject of their marriages. I may not particularly respect someone who cheats on a spouse - and I don't particulary respect Newt in that regard, either - but I don't consider it any of my business no matter who the person is, because I'M NOT THEIR SPOUSE. Feel free to prove that I've EVER said, "I can't vote for So-and-So because he cheated on his wife." I dare you.
I didn't vote for Clinton because I thought he would be a shitty President. I always assumed that his wife - who cannot possibly have not known he was an uncontrolled horndog - had made some sort of accommodation with his exctramarital activities, and that was their business. Until he broke the law, I was utterly disinterested in his wandering dick and a lot more focused on his lousy policy proposals.