marriage and Republicans.

Say what, you ask?

The GOP defends "traditional marriage" with a passion. They will tell you all day, all night, and again the next day that marriage means one man and one woman.

What they won't tell you is how many times they will change the members of that one-man, one-woman equation. Look at Rush Limbaugh; look at Ronald Reagan. Look at Sally Quinn. John McCain's on his second marriage. How many wives has Newt Gingrich cheated on?

The possible exception to the GOP marriage "rule" is The Governator.

But the "Scandals" are all about the Democrats -- JFK, John Edwards, Bill Clinton, even Jimmy "lust in his heart" Carter.

ALL of whom, I point out, are STILL married to their FIRST wives, except JFK, and death did Jack and Jackie Kennedy part, with an emphasis no one disputes. All the Democratic men I just named married remarkable women, too.

Jacqueline Onassis's fame matched, in her later years, if it didn't exceed, her late husband's. A figure of tragedy and grace, she was also, surely, a symbol of the loss to the nation that occurred 11/22/63 - a date that ought, by rights, to live in infamy.

John Edwards -- oh, John-boy -- remains married to the redoubtable Elizabeth; and Elizabeth made that choice too.

Bill Clinton, whose not-intercourse relationship with Monica Lewinski got him impeached (for catsakes, how paltry can our powerful men on Capitol Hill be in their judgement, how catty in their behavior, how shallow in their discourse? Not to mention, of course, the hypocrisy in their daily behavior -- how many chairs did the GOP have to go through trying to find someone to read the charges against Bill who wasn't also an adulterer?) is today still a married man -- still married to the mother of his daughter Chelsea. Still married to his first wife. Still a proud husband, to Hillary Clinton.

We all know about Hillary Clinton, just like we all know about Elizabeth Edwards. Survivors? Vindicated, triumphant, orders-of-magnitude beyond mere survivors, these ladies. Smart, savvy women whose choice to stay with men whose fidelity failed isn't reason to excoriate them -- it's a sign and a symbol of which party really holds to "family" and "values" the sacred union of marriage, isn't it?

And then there's Rosalynn Carter, known (off the record) as the Steel Magnolia for the force of her ability and personality. Rosalynn Carter, who carved awareness out of nothing for those suffering mental illness while she was First Lady. She's still married to Jimmy Carter, too.

So yes, I daresay the slap in the face the truth provides when you compare the actions of married Democrats to the actions of married Republicans has a definite liberal bias.

The media don't play it that way, though, do they?