Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Blames Wife For Accepting 'Gifts'
Saturday October 18, 2008
Political wives have put up with a lot this year. Each one of these "Stand By Your Man" women have suffered enough squirm-inducing humiliation at the hands of their husbands to keep Tammy Wynette busy writing songs for the next year:
- Silda Wall Spitzer and former NY governor Eliot "I Heart Call Girls" Spitzer
- Elizabeth Edwards and former presidential candidate John "How Does My Hair Look?" Edwards
- Hillary Clinton and former President Bill "I'm Only Trying to Help My Wife Get Elected" Clinton
The other aforementioned political wives elicited a great deal of sympathy when their stories hit the headlines. Will the same be true for Mrs. Stevens? I tend to doubt it. After all, she could have declined to testify, declaring spousal immunity from implicating her husband. She didn't have to be the fall girl, as Dana Milbank of the Washington Post describes her.
At any rate, it's another frustrating situation that has the rest of us shaking our heads and saying, "Why does she stay with him?"
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