Gary Johnson had a divorce.

[amy31416]

Was it a Gingrich/McCain/Edwards (soon to be?) type divorce?

If so, it does call his character into question, if not--don't care.

 

[klamath]

Was it a Gingrich/McCain/Edwards (soon to be?) type divorce?

If so, it does call his character into question, if not--don't care.

From what I read he was seeing another woman while still married to his wife that stood side by side helping him build his business. It was a little more than two people just growing apart. She died not long after he left her.

 

[Njon]

In a free market, individuals are permitted to make mistakes, and usually lose something for it for which they learn to not make the same mistake again, thus improving their station in the market.

Marriage is not economics; it's a covenantal commitment. Yes, people do make mistakes. People have moral flaws. But this suggests a large flaw in the man's character, especially given the circumstances of the divorce.

So the guy made a mistake with his first wife. Hopefully they both learned from the experience and are able to both find more suitable companionship.

His (former) wife is now dead.

 

[Njon]

Was it a Gingrich/McCain/Edwards (soon to be?) type divorce?

If so, it does call his character into question, if not--don't care.

See the links at http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=2343009&postcount=3 for an explanation of why there was a divorce.

 

[MelissaWV]

He's divorced? Oh noes!

I wish I were divorced... damned stuff takes forever, and it's expensive.

I really don't care if the guy likes putting on ladies' underwear and eating fresh fried kitten for supper, so long as he can steer the country in the right direction. *I'm* not married to the guy, so *I* don't care about the details of it.

Some people live in some pretty brittle glass houses around here.

 

[SimpleName]

I really don't care about Johnson's private life, but I always question people involved in divorce. When things go wrong in a marriage, no matter the situation, aren't the couple supposed to go to any length to resolve the issues? I wonder if they did. And if such an issue was to strangle the relationship, why did they get married in the first place? I think too many people get married for the hell of it. "Well, we love each other. So lets get married." But that is just my opinion. Maybe marriage means something completely different to Johnson. No matter the case, I'd still vote for the guy and support him for any office (unless there were a better choice...Ron Paul for instance). People make mistakes. If we didn't forgive them, then everybody would be constantly mad at each other and we'd never make any progress. How about we forgive Johnson's marriage issues and move on? Things happen.

 

[Baptist]

He's divorced? Oh noes!

I wish I were divorced... damned stuff takes forever, and it's expensive.

I really don't care if the guy likes putting on ladies' underwear and eating fresh fried kitten for supper, so long as he can steer the country in the right direction. *I'm* not married to the guy, so *I* don't care about the details of it.

Some people live in some pretty brittle glass houses around here.

I should have been more clear in my OP I guess. I wasn't throwing stones at him, simply asking a question. I just saw that he was recently divorced and is single on Wikipedia and was wondering if I was the only one who thought this would be a problem.

I'm not asking if people here have a problem with it, but do you think it would be a problem. Regardless of what the liberty movement and RPF thinks, I find it hard to believe that most Americans would have no problem with a recently divorced single dude as president.

But, as a previous post pointed out, I guess being divorced in and of itself dos not present a problem. I was just thinking back to Bush/Clinton/Bush but the previous poster pointed out that Reagan was divorced.

 

[Elwar]

Wasn't Giuliani divorced a few times and married to his second cousin? And yet the neo-cons still backed him as the leading candidate for most of the early campaign (until he tried the stupid strategy of focussing on Florida and skipping the first 3 states).

The fact remains that he vetoed 750 bills as governor. He's got the steel to say No to the big government drones.

 

[angelatc]

Ladyjade has been divorced too. who would want to be put through all this scrutiny? Not anyone who values their privacy, that's for sure, which is unfortunate for all you privacy advocates, that you'll never get a true champion. By definition.

Ron Paul.

 

[brandon]

If a man can't keep the vows he made to his wife why should we expect that he could keep his oath of office?

 

[angelatc]

Ronald Reagan divorced his first wife Jane Wyman.

While he was still a registered Democrat.

 

[angelatc]

If a man can't keep the vows he made to his wife why should we expect that he could keep his oath of office?

We're not going to raise their standards. But they're certainly not going to lower mine either.

Easy divorce has had a horrific economic toll on this country. Pretending that it doesn't really matter is simply a lie.

 

[Danke]

If a man can't keep the vows he made to his wife why should we expect that he could keep his oath of office?

Shorter term?

(another good reason for term limits).

 

[TonySutton]

If a man can't keep the vows he made to his wife why should we expect that he could keep his oath of office?

8 years of keeping his oath while serving as the Governor of New Mexico. The divorce was a contract issue between Gary Johnson and his former wife. I believe it has been resolved in court.

 

[klamath]

8 years of keeping his oath while serving as the Governor of New Mexico. The divorce was a contract issue between Gary Johnson and his former wife. I believe it has been resolved in court.

A contract he broke before being resolved in court. So should Americans be able to break contracts if they don't like it anymore and might in the future chose to get the contract disolved in court?

Johnson's reason for cheating on his wife was she wasn't running around doing sporting events with him anymore. I guess if you are dying you just don't feel like climbing Mt Everest.

 

[Elwar]

Johnson's reason for cheating on his wife was she wasn't running around doing sporting events with him anymore. I guess if you are dying you just don't feel like climbing Mt Everest.

That's quite the leap. Any source on that reason and her being sick when they were separated?

 

[Charles Lupton]

First as you know I'm a supporter of his. Second while he was divorced he is currently engaged to a woman he met in 2008. Third it had NOTHING to do with health concerns, they just had different lives. He was adventuring and she wanted to stay home and work on her charity work which she was very active in. At the time she didn't have any health concerns, her death was sudden and unexpected. They had been married for 28 yrs. at the time of the divorce. He still cared greatly for her, but they had grown apart. People claim he cheated on her based on her statement, "My heart is broken with what Gary's done to me but I'm a survivor and I'll make it through this." She was talking about the divorce as I guess it was unexpected to her. Please, don't make unfounded accusations without proof. If you have any valid proof he cheated on her, I'll take that back.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Why bump an almost two year old thread?

 

[AndrewD]

If a man can't keep the vows he made to his wife why should we expect that he could keep his oath of office?

I'll side with brandon on this one. Marriage is a commitment. It's not always about love. Sometimes you feel like you don't even love your wife/husband anymore, but that doesn't matter. It's the commitment that matters.

That's not to say there is no valid reason for divorce. If my wife cheated on me, that would be a clear violation of the commitment. Thus I would have the option to either forgive her and move on, or terminate.

Gingrich is a bad, very bad person.

 

[Charles Lupton]

I bumped it because I am researching his past.