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STATING THE OBVIOUS! During the long, arduous, and ultimately pointless episode known as the Monica Lewinsky Affair—which was primarily all of 1998 and we are still hearing about it—Hillary Rodham Clinton stood by her man through thick and thin. Hell’s Belles, she even had the courage to put a name to that which the damn liberal media never had the balls to do when she stated that there was a “vast rightwing conspiracy” out to get her husband.
None of the men in the Democratic Party had the balls—er, the temerity—to do that!
Laughed at as being her liberal paranoia at the time, subsequent revelations from former-Republican insiders (notably David Brock of Media Matters) have proven her aim accurate.
Of course, the DLM (“damn librull media”) still ignores the issue as did the men in the Democratic Party.
I know this is years too late—and I didn’t have a blog then—but I have been wondering for years now, “Why weren’t Republican women dazzled by this woman’s commitment to her man and her relationship?”
Why weren’t Republican women dazzled by Hillary’s commitment to her man?
Grommet only knows the DLM makes a BIG deal out every tortured, heroic wife of each philandering Republican politician when he gets caught! But when a Democrat’s wife stands tall and true, she is either ignored or pilloried by the same media.
So, to Mrs. William Clinton, I dedicate this post. Hopefully, the travails were worth the effort . . .
Lyrics to Stand By Your Man
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman,
giving all your love to just one man.
You’ll have bad times and he’ll have good times,
doing things that you don’t understand.
But if you love him, you’ll forgive him,
even though he’s hard to understand.
And if you love him, be proud of him,
’cause, after all, he’s just a man.
Stand by your man—give him two arms to cling to
and something warm to come to when nights are cold and lonely.
Stand by your man, and show the world you love him
keep giving all the love you can.
Stand by your man
Stand by your man, and tell the world you love him
keep giving all the love you can.
Stand by your man.
Stand By Your Man was written by Wynette with producer Billy Sherrill, and released as a single in September 1968. It reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box country charts in late 1968 for several weeks. It also crossed over to the pop charts, peaking at #19 on Billboard’s Hot 100 but only reaching #23 on the Cash Box Top 100.
Stand By Your Man is one of the most recorded songs in the history of country & western music, virtually a staple for any aspiring female country singer. Country Music Television ranked it at #1 on their list of the Top 100 Country Music Songs.
FEATURED IMAGE: This great caricature of Hillary Clinton by DonkeyHotey was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the US Department of State. It’s really a rather lovely ]portrait,‘given where caricatures tend to go . . .
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
What made you get rid of the chess set heading? Just wondering.
AMI I am experimenting with the look of the theme to see what is the most effective for my content and what my readers prefer. I like all of the open space of the chessboard one (that’s WordPress’s default theme called Twenty-Eleven and I can eliminate the picture header) but like the dramatic impact the red-and-black look has. Wudda you think? NEAL