Six divorces. Nine wives. Wildly public serial philandering. Ever younger wives.

[Stinky The Clown]

One wife served while being treated for cancer.

One wife with three kids watching her husband cavort with a younger woman on tv nightly.

One wife learned she was a soon to be ex when tv reporters stormed her after her husband said in a press conference he would marry his paramour.

Three swell guys. Fine, upstanding role models.

Gingrich, Giuliani, and Trump.

And they're going to go after Once and 41 years married Bill and Hillary Clinton. Rocky periods, but still married. Yeah. Good thinking there, Tres Amigos.







And for what its worth, I'm betting there are few women whose husband cheated on her who was kind to the other woman.

[sarcasmo]

1. Idiots.

[Warpy]

2. Serial polygamy

is something that even polygamous cultures recognize as a great evil, with family stability destroyed as the male brings in younger women while abandoning older women and the children he has with them. As the family is destroyed, the larger culture starts to be affected. Men who divorce women and abandon their children as they chase younger and younger replacement wives are serial polygamists. Serial polyandrists exist but follow a different pattern.

Women stay with cheaters for a variety of reasons that they can share with men who stay with cheaters. Stability for their children is one such reason. Having an otherwise good marriage is another. It takes a great deal of strength and honesty to get through it and the last thing that staying with a cheater would indicate is weakness.

If Trump goes this low, he is not going to like what it does to him.

[Thor_MN]

5. polygyny. polyandry. polygamy.

Men who marry multiple women at the same time are polygynists.

Women who marry multiple men at the same time are polyandrists.

People who marry multiple spouses at the same time are polygamists.


Add serial in front and you have multiple spouses, but not at the same time. So it would be incorrect to specify a male as a serial polygamist and a woman as a serial polyandrist. Could call them both serial polygamists, but if you are going to use polyandry to describe a woman's actions, you should use polygyny to describe a man's actions.

Nitpicky, I acknowledge.

Personally, IMO, people who divorce multiple times and seek new spouses are just assholes.

[Skittles]

3. in their minds, women are possessions

they absolutely cannot see the hypocrisy

[rusty quoin]

7. And I thought the women loved their sexy bodies.

[ryan_cats]

4. This is

This is what gets me. They want to play around, fine do not get married. The want the legitimacy marriage provides them but they want to screw around. I do not recall if any of these three were pious Christians or against gay marriage but still, the have no moral authority to lecture anyone.

They want to accuse Bill Clinton, is he not still married to his first wife? Did he lecture folks on how great and moral he is?

[mnhtnbb]

6. Their complaint is that Hillary didn't dump Bill. Shows terrible judgment, in their opinion.

This is typical of Republicans. Women aren't capable of making their own life decisions --like family planning--
and thus a woman who chooses to stay married to a philandering husband is obviously showing poor judgment.
They must have a man tell them what to do. A woman who isn't smart enough to dump a philandering husband
couldn't possibly be smart enough to be President.

These guys absolutely do not understand that a woman might make a choice that they--white masters of the universe--wouldn't
make themselves.

I saw somewhere--in one of the articles out today--that Hillary and Bill are happy as clams talking politics all day long every day.
And she loves him. She has put up with a lot of crap from him with his affairs, but that is HER choice. These Republican
a$$holes refuse to acknowledge that is HER choice.

This is going to backfire big time on Trump. He's losing it. And he will lose a lot more women who were on the fence until now.
I suspect he's going to need a straight jacket before this is over.

[spooky3]

9. damned if she does, damned if she doesn't

If HRC had divorced WJC, they would have criticized her just as loudly.

[Raine]

8. They're nothing but total POS, go ahead bring up all that

crap and Hillary will only look better. Scummy bunch of hypocrites!

[ancianita]

10. Well said. Hillary and women's allies are ready for these scoundrels.

I hope the world notices all this 'damned if she does, damned if she doesn't' hype.

I hope the country thinks about how boys grow up to publicly parade their double standard of morality and sophomoric snark about those they are taught to believe -- intentionally or not -- are their inferiors.

I hope women of this country see how pervasive and seemingly intractable is the deep-seated contempt, the toxic blame toward them when they are powerful, no matter how faithful to husband or religion, no matter how educated, skilled and competent they are in their lives.

I don't know if I can steel myself for four more years of this.

[CaptainTruth]

11. "Served while being treated for cancer." What kind of MFing scumbag does that?

[smirkymonkey]

12. Christian Family Values!

Try selling that one assholes!

[LWolf]

13. Dishonor

is a bipartisan pastime when it comes to marriage vows. Gingrich, Giulani, Trump, Bill Clinton...I don't excuse any of them.

I am fine with open marriages, or no marriages, if everybody agrees going in and nobody is abandoned to raise kids while someone moves on to younger pastures. It's not "cheating" when those conditions were agreed upon to begin with.

When the understanding, though, is that the relationship is monogamous and cheating occurs, I'm not really impressed with repeated "slips" and magnanimous forgiveness from the cheated upon. I'd rather see the cheater kicked to the curb and, with the partner in cheating, shunned. But that's just me. I want some social justice for the cheated upon.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. The issue, if you can contain yourself and your false equivalence . . . .

. . . . the first three in your list going after HRC for what WJC did.

HRC and WJC did not do the same.

Have a nice day.

[LWolf]

16. I was speaking

of the bigger, root issue...not Republican nonsense, and not campaign talking points. Issues DO exist outside of campaign season.

Have a nice day yourself.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Then perhaps it would have been a better use of your posting ....

..... to start your own thread on that larger topic. THIS thread was mainly about hypocrisy.

[LWolf]

21. I just assumed...which, of course,

was a mistake, that campaign related stuff would be posted in the campaign forum, and larger issues here in GD.

I forgot, for a moment, that DU has always cared more about campaigns than issues. Which is why I won't bother "starting my own thread."

Of course, all DUers are welcome to weigh in on any thread; it's not like a thread is owned.

[Ilsa]

15. Don't forget Limbaugh and his 3 wives. nt

[CJohnson_LS]

18. Trump's hypocrisy is mind-boggling

Considering how many times he's ogled other women over the years, he really is in NO position to go after HRC on this. It'll backfire on him badly, and for good reason.

[HenryJ]

19. In truth, the sort of people who vote for those guys do not care. n/t

[spanone]

20. the three fucking, philandering stooges

[yellowcanine]

22. Rudy got an annulment from the Catholic Church from his first wife after being married for more than

10 years. Apparently he only discovered after all that time that she was his second cousin and he used that as the basis for the annulment.