Newt the Beaut, et al.

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...Now take a look at the party of “traditional values” and the religious right. Republican warhorse John McCain’s first wife Carol stayed loyal to her husband during the Vietnam war when he was abroad, imprisoned and tortured. She also, however, had a car accident, put on weight and needed crutches to get around. On his return McCain did not stay faithful, met another woman, Cindy, and divorced his first wife.

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Rudy Giuliani is a New Yorker and his family life reads like an episode of Sex and the City. He has three wives under his belt, several rather public affairs, a nasty break-up with his second wife Donna Hanover and is somewhat estranged from his son. He informed his second wife that he was divorcing her and marrying Judith Nathan at a press conference. It wasn’t the first time he had embarrassed her. “I had hoped that we could keep this marriage together,” his second wife once said. “For several years it was difficult to participate in Rudy’s public life because of his relationship with one staff member.” She was referring to Giuliani’s relationship with yet another woman.

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Newt Gingrich married his first wife Jackie when he was 19. She was loyal, faithful and helped put him through graduate school. He still dumped her later on and had the class to file for divorce while she was in hospital recovering from cancer surgery. LH Carter, his former campaign treasurer, recalls Gingrich saying of Jackie: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the president. And besides, she has cancer." He refused to pay alimony or child support.

His second marriage lasted almost two decades, but it broke up while he was having an affair with a staffer 23 years younger than him, to whom he is now married. He was having the affair while coordinating impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article1529871.ece