Senator with a pants problem
Democrats have affairs, Republicans get divorced. My friend Brian, a Democrat, likes to relate that theory every time a Dem politician is caught with his pants down or a Republican dumps his wife for someone younger (and probably stupider, if she’s willing to marry a man who would dump his wife for another woman.) Brian has an impressive mental list to back up his theory, and I’m beginning to suspect he’s right.
One man who fits the mold is Senator Tim Hutchinson, (R-Arkansas). Unlike former Arkansan William J. Clinton (D-Harlem), Hutchinson wasn’t content to take advantage of a junior staff member. Nope, he had to make an honest little home-wrecker of her. Now he’s married again, and his three sons and wife of almost three decades are left to deal with his sexual incontinence.
Is this a good time to point out that Sen. Hutchinson is an ordained Baptist minister, one who was elected on a “family values” platform?
Voters in Arkansas, who frequently elected Clinton but are still apparently hung up on ancient, pre-Woodstock concepts like marital fidelity, would have probably re-elected Hutchinson but he’s now behind in the polls. I want the Senate to remain in Republican hands, but if the senator is defeated on Nov. 5, I’ll be glad. I guess it’s too much to ask for the state to refuse to rubber-stamp his “lifestyle choices” and grant him a quick divorce and remarriage, but maybe the electorate will administer a shock to the reverend senator.