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Patricia MurphyBob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his nut bag wife. Yet the Rolex-taking Mr. Honest never acknowledged his own bad behavior.
When Bob McDonnell burst onto the national scene in 2009, he was everything the Republican Party neededa good-looking family man who stopped the Obama juggernaut in its tracks in the swing state of Virginia just 12 months after the partys McCain humiliation of 2008.
A family-values social conservative (he got his JD from Regent University), McDonnell cleverly wooed Commonwealth voters with his corn-dog Bobs for Jobs campaign slogan and a heavy dose of what appeared to be the TV-perfect brood: five gorgeous kids, including a daughter who served in the military in Iraq, and a devoted, smiling wife who had once been a Washington Redskins cheerleader.
McDonnells family was emblazoned on his campaign bus and commercials. At the inaugural ball after he won the governors race, the McDonnells slow-danced to Looks Like We Made It. McDonnell had even written his masters thesis on the breakdown of the American family and ways the Republican Party could build it back up. As the family goes, so goes the nation, he wrote.
Underlying the entire McDonnell package in 2009 was a known truth about the governor among political operatives who knew him and believed in himthat unlike the divas and the bullies and the egomaniacs who litter both political parties today, Bob McDonnell was just a good guy. Staff called him Mr. Honest. Republicans in Washington called him the Boy Scout.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Cha
(295,914 posts)when it turns out the only thing they "value" is greed and corruption.
Mahalo Don
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts). . .tune in.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)I bet she isn't surprised.
Pat Robertson would tell her that she did something wrong to make him throw her under the bus.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)Adam to God: "Eve made me do it".
God to Adam: "Maybe so, but basically you're both screwed."
As one who claims to abide by and cherish Biblical principles, McDonnell should feel honored and privileged to have participated in a very real Old Testament re-enactment, with an eerily similar outcome to the original one.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)that he did that, the flaming hypocrite.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)I think the whole thing was a ruse they cooked up together.
JCMach1
(27,544 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Are always the shadiest people on the planet. And this is from someone who nearly joined an ultra right wing church 10 years ago.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Mine's an Air-King.
Danascot
(4,664 posts)so you can't really consider it a gift. No gift, no bribery. No bribery, no felony.
Asked if he liked the watch, McDonnell replied, Not really.
It was big, gaudy
just too big.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/bob-mcdonnell-rolex-watch-big-gaudy-110247.html
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...It was described as "entry level" when handed to me by the boss's nephew. I wear it when kayaking solo or when working late as a mugger pacifier. Other than that, it sits in a drawer.
I've noticed a lot of tee vee preachers and politicians wear them, a status symbol for impressing the flock.
Thank you for the heads-up on the governor. Guy thought he was above the law or would never get caught. He soon will have time to further develop his rudimentary understanding of taste and style.