WTF? Alan Grayson's estranged wife is getting food stamps

[ancianita]

540. I've said it to dilby and I'll say it to you. Support your fellow Democrats and stop falling for

corporate tabloid PR machinations.

This is corporate straw man bullshit. If you can't see that, read MineralMan.

Again:

If one's marriage were on the table (which it isn't 99% of the time) as a moral standard for voting, most governors, state reps, mayors -- hell, most of Congress -- wouldn't be in office. We all know this.

And yet they are. Because most Democrats understand that there's a greater morality at stake for this party. Most Democrats believe that no marital struggles should be exploitable by the Republican Party in an attempt to subvert the Democratic Party's greater ends.

Here you are, trying to act as if one man's marital struggle is part and parcel of the morality for the masses that this party must uphold. If how one ran his/her marriage and family were the voting standard in this country, most of those now in office would be gone and women -- women! -- would be running this country. In the long run, no one's marital problems are as important as all our problems.

At this point, making marriage or children the measure of one's leadership capabilities is trifling.

Don't succumb to divisive judgment right before an election. Help get the man into office -- he really has had a good voting and bill development record -- and attack what you think are his family man shortcomings after.

That's what Democrats fail to do -- in the name of family morality issues -- and that's how we are held in contempt by the very opposition who know better than to eat their own right before an election.

You don't have to agree with Grayson's family issues to support his election and the interests of the larger party. This thread's pushed a lot of values buttons, but we all know that in the end the truth will come out. He'll probably set up trusts for the kids (as direct beneficiaries), she'll probably get the house and the rest.

If you and the Grayson haters here don't realize that you're being sucked in by this Republican PR attack, then you haven't been paying attention to their attack strategies over the last twenty years.