What Happened to Family Values?

I don’t make a habit of stealing other Bloggers’ material, but Avocado-in-Paradise cited this in a recent post and it is just far too important not to pass on.

Everyone is lauding McCain’s military record and remembering that he was a POW, but no one seems to be recalling that he had a wife at that time, who was trying desperately to survive a near-fatal automobile accident. By the time he came home from Vietnam, she no longer looked like the beauty he had married. So he found another very wealthy beauty 18 years younger and divorced his first wife Carol. I’m somewhat incredulous that Carol still supports him in his campaign after being dumped.

I find it hard to believe that a party which has run on “family values” for as long as I can remember is embracing this man who treated his wife so callously.

Maybe that was part of the motivation for picking Sarah Palin as his running mate. She is so loyal to her family that she even tried to get her sister’s ex-husband fired from his job as an Alaska State Trooper. Now there’s family values in action.

McCain’s choice took most everyone by total surprise. At dinner on Friday night, my friend wondered whether Palin was his choice because no one else would accept. She seems to be short on just about any type of experience a potential President would need, making up for it with her ability to change diapers, which I don’t think is going to impress too many world leaders.

The evangelicals are apparently flocking to the GOP ticket now that they have an advocate. Let’s hope that no Hillary supporter is dumb enough to jump ship and vote for McCain just because he now has a woman as his running mate.

Let the facts speak for themselves about the character of our nominees. So far the Obama-Biden ticket seems to be way out front. Let’s just hope it prevails!