Reading about Carol McCain is depressing. Poor thing.

[dkf]

Carol McCain later told friends, including Reynolds and Fitzwater, that she did not know he was seeing anyone else.
...

Carol McCain was distraught at being blindsided by her husband's intention to end their marriage, said her friends in the Reagan circle.

"They weren't happy with him," Fitzwater said. Carol McCain "was this little, frail person. . . . She was brokenhearted."

By that time, Nancy Reagan had come to Carol McCain's aid, hiring her as a press assistant in the 1980 presidential campaign.

When the Reagans moved to Washington, she was named director of the White House Visitors Office.

"Nancy Reagan was crazy about her," Reynolds said. "But everybody was crazy about Carol McCain. . . . And the Meeses were very generous and helpful and comforting to her."

Fitzwater said that living in Southern California and working on the Reagan campaign helped Carol McCain move past the loss of her marriage.

"It was perfect for her. She was traveling, and it took her mind off a very, very sad time for her."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-divorce11-2008jul11,0,5924926,full.story

She never remarried. Sounds like he broke her heart.

[pnwmom]

1. I'm passing this on to my mother to send along to some of her

conservative and independent friends. This could be enough to keep some older women Republicans from voting this time around -- at least based on a few of my mother's friends' reactions.

SHOCKED! They were SHOCKED!

[dkf]

3. I'm shocked.

And he's trying to win over Hillary supporters? He deserves a whole lot of female outrage.

[enid602]

2. McCain

"On Christmas Eve 1969, while she was driving alone in Philadelphia, Carol McCain's car skidded and struck a utility pole. Thrown into the snow, she broke both legs, an arm and her pelvis. She was operated on a dozen times, and in the treatment she lost about 5 inches in height.

After John McCain was released in March 1973 and returned to the U.S., he told friends that Carol was not the woman he had married." That last line says it all.

[blogslut]

4. Break my heart too

From the photos I've seen of her back then, she has the face of a warm, open human being. She even had the fortitude to end her first marriage because her ex was a philanderer.

John McCain is not a nice man.

[tibbiit]

5. don forget to add she is 18 years younger

she was 25 when she met him, and he in his forties,
Not far from age diff of clinton and monica which he was demonized over.
tib

[DevonRex]

6. This is awful to read. She stood by him even when she didn't

know if he would ever come home. And he dropped her like a rock as soon as he met a rich plaything.

He is truly a horrible, disgusting, vile creep. Hero, my ASS. A real man doesn't behave that way.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I never thought I would have anything good to say about the Reagans, but I have

to give credit where credit is due for them helping her out like that.

Still, that is a typical conservative. Kind to family and friends and yet able to create horrifically damaging policies because the masses just aren't real people in their minds.

[PresidentObama]

8. A man who treats women like this CANNOT win the womens vote.

We MUST forward this to everyone we know!!