Men Who Cheat and Woman Who Love Them. Hypocrites All.

A friend with secondary progressive MS, like me, was chatting with me yesterday and she was very upset, angry really. (Women get upset, men get angry, right?) As my loyal readers know by now I am a liberal Democrat, born and bred, runs in my blood, though I never dismiss anyone, Lord knows I've fought my genes many times, but if I lean off course it is usually toward an independent, green party, or some socialist. I doubt I can lean to the right, but I am young (LOL, yep, I said it) and I keep my options open. Anyhoo, my friend was as mad as I've ever heard her--over husbands cheating and leaving their wives once disability steps into the picture.

She made the comment, "And they know we are too disabled to write about it!" (Yes, it has happened to her.) Well, somehow I have been blessed, er, lucky, to still be able to write about anything I want and especially appalling to me are stories about what I believe many WOULD write about, if they could. Living now in a retirement community, I am filling up with stories FAST. Back to my friend with MS.

Apparently Meghan McCain, daughter of Arizona Senator (and former presidential runner, Hanoi survivor, you know the guy) John McCain, is selling her latest book. Ms. McCain has been on many 'talk shows,' Fox News, blogger, writes for The Daily Beast--she has opinions and people are anxious to hear them. Sometimes she agrees with her father, sometimes not--people like that stuff. She strikes me as a mini-John McCain, trying to not be boxed in, labeled, just most of us. Again, however, it is the cloud that won't just disappear when she speaks of how great her father is: He married a swimsuit model who, after being disabled from a horrendous car crash, became no longer the sexy bombshell he married, but more of a drain on his desire to have sexy-bleached blonde young model sex. So, he started having affairs, until he married (well, I have no idea how many, if any, affairs he has had on current wife, wives always get too old at some point for such men it seems...) Cindy McCain, much younger wealthy heiress of a beer company.

Ross Peroit, according to reports, paid for much of the first Mrs. McCain's surgeries after the car accident (John was in Hanoi prison) and has said, "McCain is the classic opportunist. He's always reaching for attention and glory. After he came home, Carol walked with a limp, so he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history."

Carol McCain sees it differently, "My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does." John also agreed to pay for all Carol's medical bills for life. But 2+2=4 and when a wife becomes disabled, or gets cancer, AhhhnewtgingrichCHOOO, excuse me, other healthy, young women start to look much better than any marriage vow. You've heard that vow? "...in sickness and in health..."

That hypocrisy among GOP men who give their speeches about "morals" is enough to make Mother Teresa mad! And any woman who has been dumped for a younger model feels the sting of that hypocrisy, if she has any feelings. So, Meghan, when you speak of how great your dad is, remember your slip is showing if you imply he has strong morals. If you say you are his oldest daughter, remember that he had a daughter before you with that disabled former swimsuit model he dumped. OR, keep "morals" and "character" out of your political equation, because your father's math is, uh-hem, FUZZY.

Another close friend of mine who has MS, HER husband actually told her, in the car after leaving her neurologist's office and finding out that she had MS, that he wanted a divorce because he knew he couldn't handle it.

Before I end my post, my personal feeling is that this total disregard for marital vows of men (GOP or DEM, AAAAjohnedwardsCHOOO) whose wives become ill in some way and they in turn seek solace in the beds of young women IS so disgusting, cowardly, and plain filthy, that not ONE such man should dare bring up character or "God" or morals in any words out of their mouths. Any man who dares to accept awards for his "molding of young men," and is then found to be raping them should be FIRED, MIRED, and never HIRED anywhere but the prison laundry room. Any "Man of God" who is molesting children should be (see above PLUS) DE-ROBED.

And those who overlook such actions, forgive and forget? Unless you can somehow make all the harm you have done forgotten, wiped away from the universe, then don't EVER preach to anyone about what is right and what is wrong. That makes you a HYPOCRITE. And we are a better people than to be led in any way by YOU.