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fucktoyprincess -> RE: Newt's campaign comes to an end (1/19/2012 12:28:57 PM)
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Yes, in an ideal world people would make the decision to leave their spouse before committing adultery, but real life is often messier.
What I wish would happen is for the media to get out of the personal lives of politicians - and by personal life, I mean their marriage(s) and children. I just feel that to a large extent the issues of adultery and divorce (given that half of all marriages end in divorce and that many of the marriages that end in divorce end up there due to adultery) should no longer be newsworthy or even go to whether or not someone is fit to serve for public office.
If we as a society are going to support people's freedom to divorce, then it needs to stop being such an issue. And adultery has been around since the beginning of time (wouldn't have made the biblical top ten if it hadn't), so adultery is never going to go away. It isn't. It is part of the human condition.
So everyone needs to stop pointing fingers at others for moral failing and just understand that moral failing is part of the human condition.
(For the record I am NOT, and have never been, a Newt supporter. I also despise hypocrisy. But, this is really a general statement about the scrutiny that we put politicians under and the fact that the level of scrutiny is much higher than it is for other people, for example, Hollywood celebrity couples. You know how everyone goes on and on about what a great marriage Newman and Woodward had. Well, let's not forget that it was Newman's second marriage, and he met Woodward when he was still married to his first wife. I don't see people disparaging Paul Newman anywhere. We will never be able to attract quality people to the political professions unless we force the media to give them a little privacy around their marriage(s) and children. We have such limited choices for political office because, really, no normal person would ever want to be under that level of scrutiny. I just want people who will be good for the job. And adultery and divorce have nothing to do with that definition, per se. Although, I do despise hypocrisy.)
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