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>>former Republican U.S. senator <<

Fortunately god didn't see fit to duplicate Donna Hutchinson so other political divorces may take
a different, civil personna.

NormaB...was Curtis one of your boz?

It's not the divorce that gets me, it's the fact he was a Baptist preacher. That alone should disqualify someone from holding public office.

A pastor is not an ordinary occupation; it's a job where you judge, instruct and even condemn your fellow Americans for nothing more than reading the Bible differently or not at all.

Do you really want a legislator who would put the Bible above science? Who would take a 2000 year old book, call it the literal inerrant infallible word of God, and therefore use it as the primary basis for decision making?

I'll leave you with one word: Huckabee.

Unless his former wife divorced the man because he was abusive, or on Saturday nights he could be found out in the streets wearing only a towel and Crisco oil, singing old Beatles songs or whatever, I say it doesn't matter at all. It's nobody's business but theirs.

apparently she doesn't have a problem with him, so again it's nobody's business but theirs, in my opinion. But probably statewide, just not here, thank God, I'll be in the minority on that.

really, 16 years ago -- Who cares?

Exactly Tina, now thats what I said about Jenifer and Bill, and Paula and Bill, and even Monica and Bill. But the GOP spin machine doesn't see it that way. Accept sometimes when it's one of there beloved.

Remember when I first heard the gossip that Timmy was screwing around on Donna, sleeping with a staffer named Randi. I remember my first thought: I hope Randi is a guy!

Normally, I would agree with Tina and Amerconio, but what a politician publicly espouses then repudiates in his private life affects how I evaluate him as a candidate for a position. I would have trouble trusting the word of a "devout" Catholic who had multiple divorces and promoted choice as the correct moral path in legislation and court rulings on abortion. Matthew had it right, " . . . No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon . . ."

I thought Bill Clinton was a good president, but he was definitely rash and unthinking in his private life. He could have been much better. We probably wouldn't have had Bush, the Younger, if Clinton had kept it zipped.

I think John F. Kennedy wasn't as good a President as Clinton was and was just as or even more rash.

Others that have caused me to re-evaluate them as a candidate:
Ronald Reagan - divorced the mother of two of his children. Married Nancy Davis who bore him a daughter only 7 months after the marriage.
Newt Gingrich - divorced his wife who was dying of cancer.
Rush Limbaugh - Rush and his current wife Marta have six marriages and four divorces between them.
Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia - Barr has been married three times. Barr had the audacity to author and push the "Defense of Marriage Act."
During his term as Senator, Tim Hutchinson divorced his wife of twenty-nine years and then married a congressional aide in 2000.
Thrice divorced Catholic Rudoplh Guiliani had two affairs while he was living with his wife in Gracie Mansion and used public employees and Mayors perquisites to keep the affairs out of the news.

The circumstances of these affairs/divorces versus these men's public pronouncements casts doubts upon their abilities to carry out the responsibilities of the office as they had promised.

I know the Elephant Echo Chamber under Lee Atwater and KArl Rove have made mud-slinging on perceived faults destructive to candidates beyond good sense and rationality, but I can not dismiss obvious character faults in my evaluation of a candidate, regardless of their political preference or platform.

eLwood -

I am SO thankful you apparently live in a wet county because you've bounced back beautifully from your recent wellness detour, with nightly toddies.

Curtis Coleman? One of my boyz?

Oh, eLwood. How to put this delicately so it doesn't shatter innocent dreams?

I don't care about Curtis' divorce. I don't care about his ex- exalting him as a sainted human being and politician. Alimony talks.

I care about committing adultery with the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Fuck the five bills he offered me at Mallard's that night.

I may flirt but I've scruples. I felt like throwing my White Russian in his face but I knew he wouldn't fully appreciate the gesture so I slugged it down instead since it was on his tab and I was about to leave anyway.

Plus, is Curtis Coleman REALLY from the Milk Mogul family or was he shitting me? I'm not from back here, as you know, so it was hard to tell at Mallard's.