McCain Marriage Claims Don’t Match Docs
From those champions of the sanctity of marriage at the Los Angeles Times:
McCain’s broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship
The nature and timing of his divorce from Carol Shepp alienated key friends — and his version doesn’t always match that in court documents.
By Richard A. Serrano and Ralph Vartabedian
July 11, 200…McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record.
In his 2002 memoir, "Worth the Fighting For," McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley.
"I spent as much time with Cindy in Washington and Arizona as our jobs would allow," McCain wrote. "I was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980."
An examination of court documents tells a different story.
McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had ‘cohabited’ until Jan. 7 of that year — or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.
Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife…
This is an obvious hit piece from the LA Times. And the tie-in to the Reagans couldn’t be any less subtle.
(We thought the media said wives and rest of ones personal life were off-limits? Or does that only apply to Democrats?)
Still, if any of this is true — it is from the LA Times, after all — the disparity in the record and what McCain now claims is at least three martinis worth of unsettling.
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July 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Given the left’s warped views on marriage, one would think the LA Times would be praising McCain for challenging outmoded concepts of morality. Oh, but he’s a Republican and thus is held to a different standard. How the LA Times continues to maintain any credibility (much less a subscriber base) is beyond me. They should just be done with it and start running Democratic Party press releases on their front page.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Ridiculous. Especially from the party of Billy Boy “I’ll Jump Anything in a Skirt” Clinton.
The LA Times and the NYT obviously hold joint editorial meetings via satellite.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I HATE Johnny Mac…will definitely be damaging my liver in order to numb myself up with enough liquor to pull the lever for him…
But, sheesh…the man has been married to Cindy McCain for TWENTY EIGHT years now… 50% of marriages end in divorce and majority of marriages end due to infidelity—not a big shocker.. The fact that the man is still friends with the ex-wife (she’s voting for him) and has stayed married to the same woman he left her for for 28 years—seems actually a plus for him.
Good grief—I have officially stuck up for John McCain—-bring on the antacid tablets…
Where’s Tom Cruise and his wacky scientology cleansing showers when you need one…
July 12th, 2008 at 11:29 am
This marriage story won’t change voters’ minds. It happened a long time ago, doesn’t seem that relevant today.
The story about McCain’s henchmen roughing up the librarian with the sign that says, “McCain = Bush” … that does a lot of more damage. I guess McCain doesn’t respect freedom of speech.
July 13th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
McC is bad. Bosama is wonderful. We’ll get that beat into us for the next three and a half months. We’ll probably learn John had a DUI before he entered the Navy. Or kicked a little kid’s dog. But BHO? He’s our savior. Good grief. I may have to get drunk long before November.
(there has to be a Foster Brooks routine about voting)
July 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
He looks just like Steve Martin in this photo.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:39 am
“Honey, let me put in the court documents that we co-habited until Jan. 7 so I won’t be hit with residency taxes in D.C.”
“Whatever.”