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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 08:28 AM Sep 2014

The Religious Right's 'Nice Guy' Who Threw His Wife Under the Bus

Patricia Murphy

Bob 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 needed—a good-looking family man who stopped the Obama juggernaut in its tracks in the swing state of Virginia just 12 months after the party’s 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 “Bob’s 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.

McDonnell’s family was emblazoned on his campaign bus and commercials. At the inaugural ball after he won the governor’s race, the McDonnells slow-danced to “Looks Like We Made It.” McDonnell had even written his master’s 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 him—that 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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Cha

(295,914 posts)
2. What a mess-this just another example of who republicons and russians point to for "family values"..
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 08:42 AM
Sep 2014

when it turns out the only thing they "value" is greed and corruption.

Mahalo Don

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
4. Well we know how Republican males think about women.
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 10:02 AM
Sep 2014

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)
5. "Original Sin" revisited
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 10:18 AM
Sep 2014

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)
6. Rachel stuck pins in him over this. She was really, really offended
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 04:42 PM
Sep 2014

that he did that, the flaming hypocrite.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
9. I'll never, for the life of me, understand why those that heir on the side of "Family Values"...
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 04:52 PM
Sep 2014

Are always the shadiest people on the planet. And this is from someone who nearly joined an ultra right wing church 10 years ago.

Danascot

(4,664 posts)
11. But he'd didn't like it much
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 06:31 AM
Sep 2014

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)
13. I won mine in a sales contest in 1983. Still runs...
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 09:02 AM
Sep 2014

...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.

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