some married men are careless when it comes to their first wives.for example:

• newt gingrich gave divorce papers to his first wife while she was in the hospital battling uterine cancer.
• dr. phil mcgraw’s first wife, who was kept “secret” for many years, stated that she had to endure his affairs. the current tough-love, self-help guru allegedly told her: it had nothing to do with his feelings toward me, to grow up, that’s the way it was in the world.

and then, there’s john mccain. apparently, while he was in that awful POW camp, he was missing his beautiful, former model wife carol. what he didn’t know was that she was in a horrible car accident. she needed 23 operations. and she held it all together, children and all while he was away, serving the country of course, but still away.

when he returned, he essentially screwed around on this poor woman. he ended up dumping her for his current wife, a beer heiress 17 years his junior. even ross perot, who paid carol’s medical bills — and there were heaps of them — put it succinctly:

McCain is the classic opportunist, he told the interviewer. After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona.

let the record show mccain’s cheating past. and let that info go straight to the working-class women voters he’s trying to woo. i’m sick and tired of public men getting away with this crap. they cloak themselves in the garments of American Hero, but somehow, the content of their character is betrayed by such cowardly acts of disloyalty.