I recently read somewhere that Democrats just don't have any family values and that people who call themselves "values voters" have only one option but to vote for Republicans. That's almost as laughable as saying that Republican's are the only ones who can keep us safe. We all know that 9/11 happened on Bush's and Giuliani's watch, that Giuliani has no experience in fighting terrorism, only cleaning up the aftermath of terrorist attacks. Bush has created more terrorists than he has killed by invading Iraq and since Bush has taken office, terrorism and terrorist activity is at an all time high. This means that the affect of the Rove spin machine is still relevant and or people who often vote Republican are either uninformed or stupid.
So, for all you values voters out there, here is a Republican/Democrat family values break down. I will say that if by "family values" you mean teaching your children to fear and hate anyone who is different and disagrees with them, then sure, the Republicans still have the edge on that one.
Rudy Giuliani: Married 3 Times. One marriage was to his 2nd cousin whom he cheated on with his 2nd wife. He then cheated on his 2nd wife with his third wife which then estranged him from his children.
Fred Thompson (TN): Divorced his first wife whom he married when he was 17 and she was 2 months pregnant. The first time she filed for divorce, his wife stated she was seeking the separation due to ""cruel and inhuman treatment,". He has since remarried.
John McCain (AZ): Divorced his wife when he met someone richer and hotter. Contrary to what Bush and Rove said, he did not have an illegitimate black child.
Newt Gingrich (GA): Married 3 Times, Dumped his ex-wife while she was in a hospital bed suffering from cancer, Cheated on current wife while prosecuting Clinton for getting a BJ from Monica Lewinsky.
David Vitter (LA): A proponent of abstinence only sex education and stating that marriage was a sacred union between a man and a woman, he had become a regular client of the “DC Madam”, who ran a ring of prostitutes. Vitter once stated:
“by teaching teenagers that saving sex until marriage and remaining faithful afterwards is the best choice for health and happiness.” Apparently he never took an abstinence pledge.
Rush Limbaugh: Cheated on 2 of his 3 wives, made his maid score his synthetic heroin for him. Rush on the gay marriage issue:
"Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution." (July 31, 2003) His three marriages have produced 0 children. So what does he really know about "family values" if he has no real family?
Strom Thurmond (SC): When he was 22, he had sex with his 16 year old black maid who later had his daughter. He married his second wife when he was 66 years old after she, at age 23, won Miss South Carolina. Supposedly cheated on his fourth wife at the age of 88.
Mark Foley (FL): Tried to get with underage boys.
Larry Craig (ID): Tried to bone dudes in public shitters.
Ted Haggard: Anti gay Bush advisor / Televangelist and leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, smokes meth with and has anal sex with gay prostitutes.
Tom Delay (TX): Doesn't talk to his own mother, Cheated on his wife.
Jeff Gannon AKA James Guckert: Planted Whitehouse press reporter with a fake name, from a fake Bush administration "newspaper", who made false statements about Democrats when he asked Bush a staged question, who also had his nude pictures posted on numerous gay prostitution web-sites offering his services for $200 per hour.
Dan Burton (IN): Fathered Son with a different woman while he was married. After his wife died of cancer, he married her former nurse. Was also known as the biggest poon hound in the Indiana legislature.
Ironically, the loan Morman is the only one who has had just one wife.
Now let’s look at the family values of the top Democratic candidates:
Hilary Clinton (NY): Married once, one child, stuck by her husband and worked out their differences after his infidelity.
John Edwards (NC): Married once, has Children. Maintained support of his candidacy from his wife even after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Barrack Obama (IL): Married once, has children.
Joe Biden (DE): First wife and daughter died in a car accident where his two sons were also injured. Biden was sworn into office by their bed side. In order to care for them while in the Senate, Biden took and hour and a half train ride home each day from D.C. to Delaware. In 1977 Biden got remarried.
So, what was that about Family Values?
