Help with this project, let's assemble a list of all present or

[rzemanfl]

recent (last 20 years) Republican Senators and Congressmen who divorced their wives and married a woman at least eightteen years their junior. While working on this, let's all consider what the Repukes would have done had Clinton divorced Hilary and married Monica.

Let's also do a second list of such men who provably kept a mistress that much younger than they while remaining married.

I will provide numbers 1 and 2 for the first list:

1. C.W. "Bill" Young FL-10
2. Fred Thompson, former Senator from Tennessee

On edit, rules changed for John McCain, from 20 to 18 years younger.

[DrRang]

1. The always inspiring Newt Gingrich. Extra points for cancer factor?

[rzemanfl]

8. Callista is 23 years younger. Interesting how many of these

women are staffers.

[theanarch]

2. Frank LoBiondo...R, NJ (2nd district)...

...on edit, do i get a prize for naming the most obscure?

[rzemanfl]

5. And a Catholic too. Can you provide age of Tina? Obscure is

why I posted this, DU has members all over who can dish the dirt on the local Repukes.

[theanarch]

9. sorry, i can't confirm the age...

...but i've heard (ancedotally) that she's in her mid-30's, and he's, like 57 or 58. To judge by her photo, however, i'd say about 22...

[rzemanfl]

10. Hard to tell from her picture between these two ugly fuckers:

[theanarch]

14. oh, i saw one of her from the society page...

...of a local rag, deep cleavage and all, which was, shall we say, quite revealing. Rumor had it that with wifey #1, he was not only cheating on her, but on his g/f (his DC office manager) as well. There's also a strange incident a few years back about Lobo (aka LoBotomy aka LoBido) being in the House gym with the husband of one of his many conquests and emerging with a very black and swollen eye...says he bounced a basketball into his face...yeah, right. Big Frank is the kind of undistinguished backbencher who gives undistinguished backbenchers a worse name than they otherwise deserve. His signature issue in 12 years of congress is a constitutional amendment to outlaw flag burning.

[kaygore]

3. What about McCain

I am not sure how much younger Cindy is but she is the one with the money that enabled McCain to become a senator!

[rzemanfl]

6. Wikipedia says "almost twenty years his junior" so she doesn't

quite make the cut. So I will change the rules-which is a very Republican-like thing to do.

[kaygore]

16. I thought it was close to 20 but wasn't sure.

[theanarch]

4. Bob Dole...n/t

[rzemanfl]

7. Only 13 years or so age difference and I am not changing the

rules again.

[Nay]

11. How bout Rudy Guiliani? How old was his mistress?

[rzemanfl]

12. He doesn't meet the criteria. eom

[MaineDem]

13. The sanctity of marriage

Glad to see they all honor those vows so well.

[rzemanfl]

15. Then there is the guy whose 29 year-old mistress says he

abused her, Don Sherwood from Northeast PA.

[kaygore]

17. Ted Stevens' wife Catherine looks a lot younger than he does

Stevens wife died but maybe is Catherine is much, much younger, you might widen the parameters to account for lechery.

[rzemanfl]

19. Nah! Already changed the rules once. Unless he killed his wife

he gets a pass.

[kaygore]

20. You are too funny!

I did research the senate for you but didn't have time to go through the HRs!

[kaygore]

18. Mitch McConnell's wife is 11 years younger

Elaine Chao

Jeanne Vander Myde, wife of John Warner, looks to be a lot younger than he is. Of course, Warner had divorced Liz Taylor long befoe he even met Jeanne Vander Myde.

How old is George Allen's present wife, Susan Brown?