<p>I don’t think McCain can afford to throw stones at Guiliani. McCain dumped his first wife for one of his students, who was from a very, very rich family. Yes, they’ve been married a long time now–but she’s roughly 50 to his 70. He was one of the “lucky ones” --like Bob Dole–whose first wife didn’t make a whole lot of noise in public about being dumped. Neverthless, he’d be an idiot to criticize Guiliani’s infidelities–it would just bring up his own baggage.</p>
<p>I doubt McCain will have to throw stones at Guiliani. The headlines and steamy pictures were all over the New York Post.</p>
<p>That’s a good point, Mdear. The folks who are speaking here with such authority on what the “Right Wing Conservatives Who Control Nominations” are thinking have never even met one. Except in cyber-space. Giuliani has a very good shot, but they won’t find out about it listening to their golfing buddies on the left coast, or in Massachusetts. Broken glass Republicans want to win. The abortion issue upon which the Left places all of its hopes has been fading for several years, anyway, and with our newly-aligned Supreme Court, is now even less important.</p>
<p>Barbara Billingsley was mom of the beav and don’t you forget it or Ward(hugh beaumont) will call you into the den for a lecture,…</p>
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<p>That’s different. That was back before they even had sex, wasn’t it?</p>
<p>Driver, spoken like a true “blue state Republican”. If the right wing social agenda no longer holds sway, why is John McCain travelling the country on his hands and knees cow-tow’ing to the social conservatives? Hey, I’d vote for some Republicans, too, if any blue-staters could get get nominated by the Republican party. I’ve voted for our last two Republican governors here in Massachusetts, but they get kicked to the curb pretty quickly by the national party.</p>
<p>BTW, how’s your man, Lynn Swann, doing in the governor’s race? I understand he has refused to grant a single interview to a Pennsylvania newspaper.</p>
<p>“Barbara Billingsley was mom of the beav and don’t you forget it or Ward(hugh beaumont) will call you into the den for a lecture,…”</p>
<p>Sorry!!! These shows were a bit before my time. Jane W (what IS her last name) was the mom on some 50s show. Maybe Father Knows Best?</p>
<p>I think later on she was the matriarch on some evening Dallas/Falcon Crest type show.</p>
<p>Jane Wyman was the mom on Falcon Crest. And, Nancy Davis was two months pregnant when she married Ronald Reagan, so I think they DID have sex back then!</p>
<p>For Jane Wyman’s career highlights see <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wyman[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wyman</a></p>
<p>I can offer some insight on Cuomo. I was in the room on the second floor of the Capitol when he announced his intentions not to seek the Presidency. I know that in the months prior to that he had been urged by his staff to run…they had dreams of grandure re: running federal programs and agencies. His announcement flew in the face of the numerous rumors about a small plane ready to take him into New Hampshire that afternoon. There were other rumors too, about in-law problems that would not do well in the light of national press. I thought his announcement took about as much courage as any I have seen. He made a decision to put his family above his ego, even those who did not like his politics should recognize the difficulty of this decision. I know it was not about a challenging race against Bush. Remember Cuomo entered a gubernatorial race against a very popular Ed Koch, who was thought by many to have the race sewn up. What they didn’t see was that as Secretary of State, Cuomo had been everywhere in the state for several years and was an exceptional speaker and politician.</p>
<p>As for predictions of the republican nomination…I would guess barring a possible health related problem, one of the John McCains will win out by saying the right thing in the appropriate states. Conservatives talk a lot but in the end they overspend budgets and have extra marital affairs and they will continue to support a electable candidate over picking a man of principals…not unlike democrats who support candidates with wealthy backers or seats on corporate boards. </p>
<p>I don’t think anyone coming out of NY politics will win the Presidency next time around. Anyone.</p>