I feel sorry for Haggards wife

[59millionmorons]

Besides her being very lovely, if you saw the look on her face during the most resent interview with them in the car. She looked like someone kicked her in the stomach.

[Oceansaway]

1. .

if shes THAT stupid to NOT have known, she deserves whatever he throws at her....jmo

[karlrschneider]

32. I know nothing about her, but my sister didn't know her husband was gay

for 24 years. Neither did I. Neither of us are stupid.

[Skittles]

48. with all due respect

Haggard was one pink feather boa away from being downright FLAMING

[karlrschneider]

49. Maybe, my gaydar isn't that good but my ex-brother-in-law has

2 brothers both straight and one of them behaves just like Richard Simmons.

[JI7]

2. i don't

she supports Bush and the right iwng agenda. fuck her.

[TheDonkey]

26. Agreed

It's sad the situation she's in but this is her time to pack up her bags and get the hell out.
She's also a supporter of anti-gay zealot sleezebag and deserves to live with the destruction that dirtbag
is going to bring his family.

[still_one]

3. There are a lot of people to feel sorry for because

of this culture of exclusion and hate

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I don't.

She has undoubtedly benefited from the wealth and power accumulated by the hatemongering Haggard. She gets to participate in the gutter slide too. I think she believes her god-book-o-rules demands that she remains obediently devoted to her miserable hubby. Oh too bad your meal ticket turned all sour on you. Waaaaa.

[goclark]

35. She gets no pity from goclark

She enjoyed the gay bashing and the "perfect look of a marriage."
The money, the fame, the LIES.

No tears here.

[Vorta]

5. Would you feel sorry for Vito Corleone's wife?

For years wives and girlfriends didn't go down with gangsters and drug dealers. of course it's impossible for these women to not know what their husband or boyfriend does for a living. They spend the money. They are criminals. The wives of religious hooligans are hooligans too.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Only to the extent that she married that pathetic clown.

Other than that, she must have been living in a bubble.

[Nostradammit]

7. I was thinking something similar to that -

I don't know if I feel pity; she obviously had a screw loose to be anywhere near that guy, but her world is definitely crashing in around her and I hate to see anyone suffer.

I would not call her lovely. She might be pretty, but I doubt she's lovely.

[wicket]

8. I do

[bluedog]

9. Tucker said his KIDS were inthe car also

this is terrible for the kids.........my God.......catch this SOB somewhere else.......without his family......the little ones had nothing to do with this!

[frylock]

12. are you kidding?!

They HIDE behind their wives and children. It's pathetic. If they're concerned for the children, then they should quit using them as shields!!!

[underpants]

17. IF that is true why did he stop?

Any answer that has to do with him being honest and open doesn't count either.

He stopped when he knew they would ask about sex (in any way) and meth use????

[DuaneBidoux]

31. yest the kids are the TRUE victims here. Even more, they are the

victims because they are being raised in such a dysfunctional, hate filled gutter. If they are bright it will be even tougher for them as the world begins to look less and less like what they were taught as they grow older. This can be very traumatic. I know.

[NewInNewJ.]

10. I feel sorry for her and her children. What a mess.

[thereismore]

11. I do. She trusted him and even maybe loved him. She loves his children.

What an asshole he is. Damn him.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. How do you know that?

You know she loves his children? You know she trusted him? How do you know she didn't instead love the wealth and power that she was surrounded by, couldn't stand him, and despised her miserable spawn?

[Lars39]

18. And the power *she* held, too.

Preacher's wives can hold enormous power in a church,even a fundy church.
I've seen women practically bow and scrape to gain favor with preacher's wives.

[thereismore]

29. I have seen that too. nt

[thereismore]

28. True, I am assuming the best of her. nt

[Daphne08]

13. I feel sorry for his children. This must be just awful for them. n/t

[Hoping4Change]

15. I don't. Anyone who opposes open homosexuality implicitly

endorses men to lie to themselves and female partners. Frankly I think every religious person no matter the creed that opposes open homosexulaity should identify which daughter they want to sacrifice to closet homosexuals - to keep homosexuals in the closet women are required to be their partners.

[valerief]

16. It was okay that her husband syphoned money from the gummint

and from church members, who, like most Americans, are probably struggling to make ends meet. She's not innocent. She's part of the Taking Class. Besides, every woman runs the risk of being married to down-low husband. She's no different.

[NOLADEM]

19. She got what was coming since the day she met him...a fall

She has been married to a fraud in every sense of the word, and he finally fell from his false loft, and she HAD to know. The moment I saw him speak, my Gaydar exploded into tiny pieces I am still cleaning up.

He is a homophobic homosexual, a drug using teetotaler, a lying man of the cloth, an adulterer.

They have made millions extorting the ignorance, intolerance, hatreds, fears and prejudices of their flock for years, doing a disservice to his flock and the world at large.

Fuck the both of em. I revel in their downfall. It serves as an example of how not to conduct yourself and offers a wonderful opportunity for many in the Evangelical flock to snap out of their spells and reclaim their own souls.

[Tyo]

22. I agree. Let's reserve our sympathy for those who need it.

My take is that she had to have known what he was all about and she was okay with it as long as the fleecing of the flock was continuing apace and providing her with the creature comforts to which she'd become accustomed. Moreover, she apparently had no problem in supporting him as he pushed his bigoted and hateful social agenda. Screw 'em both. I'll save my sympathy and support for the Cindy Shehans of the world, our troops, and the Iraqi families torn to shreds by the madmen who run this country.

[NOLADEM]

23. Yep

I used to date the DA's daughter in high school. Political midsized Louisiana town. This guy was a cross dressing, coke snorting, child and wife beating, racist, lovechild having typical Republican. I can remember going to her house for dinner and seeing the DA, an assistant DA and a few other local nobles playing cards with a gun on the table and a pile of coke from the evidence room on a mirror, and not a flinch of care when I walk in.

His wife? She was Tammy Faye essentially, and would spend all of her time coked and pilled out, in the whirlpool or pool, driving the Lexus around town.

When he was caught, she acted as if she had no idea. Her own daughters and neighbors turned on her until she quit denying it.

She knew, and she made a decision that the issues were worth the local fame and comfort of piles of money and the DA laying next to you.

Same thing. This man's wife HAD to know. NO pity for her. I pity the dumbasses who spent their hard earned money on meth for their hypocritical gay pastor.

[Tyo]

24. Better you than me, man

I'd have been a little edgy if I'd been in your shoes. :scared:

But that aside, the spouse almost always knows. The question is how he or she chooses to deal with it

[alfredo]

43. She might have been porking the pool boy. We just don't know.

I'm sure she is freaked out, her whole world collapsing, but her divorce lawyer will reassemble it to some degree. She will be comfortable. She might play the victim, and come out of this smelling like a rose.

Of course she might stay with him. She might truly love him.

We just don't know right now.

[irislake]

20. It may be traumatic

but if you ask me they will all be better off in the long run. The scandal will force them to re-examine their mindless beliefs. When the children are adults they may actually be better people than their parents. It improved Tammy Fay, didn't it?

[irislake]

21. What have looks got to do with it?

What if she was as ugly as sin?

[otohara]

25. Congregation Will Pray For Her

and him! All will be forgiven and swept under the gigantic rug called GOP hypocrisy

[ima_sinnic]

27. she's had how many years to get a divorce & live an ethical life? (nt)

[IndianaGreen]

30. Have you seen the mansion in which they live?

The Haggards and others like them prey on the gullible to get them to finance their lavish life style, all the while they bash everyone else.

[mitchtv]

33. No sympathy here

It's all been said already by prvious posters. :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Trajan]

34. Yeah .. I do feel sorry for her ....

I think most all right wing fundies are dupes .... that they have no idea they are being lied to, and suck up those lies like momma's milk .....

I suspect that woman is going to have a life-changing experience : a new insight that will change her worldview .....

Hopefully ... acceptance will be involved ...... There is enough hatred in the world ....

[GoneOffShore]

36. Nope, sorry, no pity

She walked into a marriage with a bottom feeding right wing religious nut with her eyes wide shut. She benefited from the money, the fame, the hatemongering, and had his kids.
Would you be sorry for Eva Braun? Would you be sorry for Ceaucescu's wife, or Eva Peron, or Imelda Marcos?

And as someone pointed out, these bastards hide behind their wives and kids to mask their hypocrisy and hate. And sometimes the wife and kiddies cooperate and enable the slugs - GW and Laura and the girls, Lynne Cheney and what's her name.

She knew what she was getting into when she married a bottom crawling, hate spewing lizard like Haggard. How could she not, especially if she held the same views.

[beaconess]

38. You know all of this about her?

Are you a member of her family or just a close personal friend?

[beaconess]

37. Wow - the hateful vitriol being hurled at his wife here

is really sad - especially coming from folks in the party that's supposed to be the good guys. This is how I expect the other side to greet people's personal misfortunes, but we should be above this kind of nasty, judgmental, Rush Limbaugh-type attacks on people just because we think we may disagree with their politics or lifestyles (even if we don't a damned thing about them) - it's one of the things that makes us different from thm.

I agree with you - I feel very sorry for her, too.

[Jersey Ginny]

39. These people spread so much hatred and intolerance that it's hard not to lash out

These fundamentalists are scary to me and I think that they are a direct threat to our democracy. I like to see them fall and it is difficult to muster up any sympathy for any of them as they are so abusive to so many good people. However, I am making an effort to muster up some sympathy for the wife and certainly for the kids. I know people in a similar situation and it is painful for the family. I can't imagine it can't also be tremendously painful for them. As one person said, I hope that this opens their eyes and they can find true love and compassion.

[beaconess]

41. So true

I certainly understand - and feel myself - the frustration and anger. But I also feel very strongly that one of the things that separates us from them is that we don't turn hateful and nasty and spiteful toward our opponents the way they do. It's always easy to say, "Of course I have every right to hate them - they deserve it." But that's exactly what THEY think, as well - they judge and hate, not because they think it's wrong, but because they think we deserve it and they have every right to do so. I really think we have to strive to be better than that or, what's the point if we're going to turn into exactly what we are fighting against?

As my grandmother used to say about Richard Nixon, "Jesus teaches me that I must love my enemies and when I have trouble doing that, I pray for the will to love them. But with Nixon, I have to pray for the will to even pray for the will to love him!"

[Strelnikov_]

40. Yea. The Look On Her Face Kind Of Took The Fun Out Of It For Me

[beaconess]

42. It reminds me that behind all of the hype, controversy and noise

there are real people.

[Ninja Jordan]

44. Anyone who says "I don't" is an asshole.

[opihimoimoi]

45. TOUGH SHIT...she got to spend a lot of the money made while wearing a beard

She musta known and let it slide for the ride.

[Monk06]

46. I saw the picture too. He was smiling like nothing was wrong but

she was gutted. I really feel sorry for her and
the kids. The older boy in the back seat is not
a happy camper. I see a divorce and name change
in their future.

[Skittles]

47. I don't

she is part of the willfully ignorant who spend their lives pushing their fantasies on other people. The children though, I feel VERY sorry for.

[mtnsnake]

50. I feel about as sorry for her as I do Laura Bush. The only people to feel sorry

for are all the fools who get raped out of their hard earned money by two-bit conmen like Haggard and Falwell.