Interestingly, the wives are popular in the same ranking order as their husbands and, in most cases, more popular than their husbands.
Michelle Obama: 54% favorable, 34% unfavorable (+ 20)
Ann Romney: 31% favorable, 22 % unfavorable (+ 9)
Karen Santorum: 31% favorable, 27% unfavorable (+ 4)
Callista Gingrich: 18% favorable, 44% unfavorable (-26)
The last one is particularly interesting. Newt has made such a big deal about "going to the Lord for forgiveness." But we haven't heard anything about Callista's regret or asking forgiveness for being "the other woman" in an affair that lasted for -- was it eight years? I guess it's better just not to go there and hope people don't think about it.
Maybe they do think about it. Or maybe they just don't like her hair.
From the very beginning it has struck me that it would be awfully hard for the American public to accept her as First Lady, a figure we want to hold up as such a positive role model. Of course, we've had second marriages among our presidents and their wives. But this one is sort of in your face, thanks to Newt's serial infidelity and absolute dependence on a relationship with a woman. That point seems not to have been given much thought. Much has been made of his infidelities. Not much has been said about the fact that he can't seem to be alone without either a wife or a mistress.
Do you realize that, since Newt was 16 and dating his high school teacher, whom he later married, he has never been without a primary attachment to a woman -- not for a day. Every single day since he was 16, he has either been married or had already proposed to the next wife -- and always before he asked the current one for a divorce.
As a psychoanalyst, I find that worth thinking about.
Ralph
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