On Sunday, France elected a new presdent. The conservative Nicolas Sarkozy defeated the socialist Segolene Royal by approximately 53 percent to 47 percent.
Or, to put it another way, the guy who’s openly having an affair with a journalist for Le Figaro (depicted) and whose wife is having an affair with a major advertising executive defeated the woman with model-class cheekbones who's lived with a man for 25 years and had four children with him without the two of them entering the state of holy wedlock.
Will two such candidates ever run for president in America? Given the judgmental attitudes of such a large portion of our electorate, it’s hard to imagine even one getting nominated. So far, though, the thrice-married Rudy Giuliani, whose second marriage collapsed as he began dating the future Mrs. G III, hasn’t seen his personal life preempting him from consideration. Perhaps we are turning a corner.
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According to Mitt Romney, all of those persons really had seven-year marriage contracts!
Seriously, Ronald Reagan was the first divorcee to hold the Presidency, and the Republicans have made sexual shenanigans de rigeur for their pious moralists. I have little doubt that we already DO have candidates with personal histories like those in France, but we lack the honesty to admit it.