Discussion: McDonnell's Emotional Note To Wife: 'I Want To Be In Love'

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Just… sad. I’d hate to have my love life on public display like this.

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Me too. Doesn’t change the fact that he’s unfit for office, but I actually feel some humanity for the guy.

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This defense is straight out of Church Lady: Chats with Tammy Faye & Jim Bakker. We all know how that ended.

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What a great reason to take bribes! ā€œI have a troubled marriage. To keep it together I took bribes in Jesus’ name. I’m so sorry!ā€

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Dear wife, I’m heading to trial, my political career is over, here’s the bus, now get under it!!

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nails it.

These fucking people are something else. Its like a cheap, unrealistic movie. But its real.

ā€œMy wife is a bitch so I HAD to be corrupt. She MADE ME take all that stuff!ā€
If I were a woman on the jury, I’d vote to have him drawn and quartered - by 4 Ferraris, not 4 horses.

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TPM? I realize that it was the Post pointing incorrect usage, but…

ā€œwhen the governor read aloud parts of an emotional note he wrote to his the firstlady in September 2011, when their marriage had sunk to a low point.ā€

I understand you’re all writing quickly, but …

ā€œI want to be in love, not just watch movies about it. I also want to not be referred to as ā€˜Prisoner #XXXXX,’ so honey, say hello to the chassis of Mr. Bus.ā€

Oh lordy lou…I think I’m gonna gag.

ā€œAs the Stomach Turns - 1pm daily on Richmond’s WKKKā€

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Why won’t God fix their marriage?! After all the prayers, He has forsaken this good Christian couple in the agony of their suffering!

Does He even exist?!

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ā€œDemonic Raisins I REBUKE YOUā€

So Virginia isn’t for lovers?

This whole trial has been a soap opera. I hope the jury doesn’t forget why it’s there.

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Why do these militant heterosexuals have to shove their chosen lifestyle down our throats?

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Oh Pa-leeze…you can’t be that naive. It’s a criminal defense for corruption charges, not ā€œThe Days of Our Livesā€. I have letters like that from old lovers (edit: minus the ā€œsinnerā€ part), and the best part of those lover’s spats was by far the make-up sex. Nah, this is bullshit. No sympathy from me…The two of them are colluding on this defense…They are both liars from the get-go. They’ve taken their lofty theocratic morality and dumped it unsolicited on the entire State of Virginia while they both were in the Governor’s mansion, galavanting around and taking gifts from their own private plutocrat.

This whole trial is morphing into the story of ā€œLuke and Lauraā€.

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They’re writing quickly to. The WaPo is live-blogging the this tragedy.

one of the things he said was that in light of the charges now, i have to talk about it. in other words, if one of us is going to jail, it’s you, babe, not me. So their marriage was a political show…or is this now the show? Some folks would have said that the governor picked his career over his wife…he knew she didn’t feel she was ready to be the first lady, and in fact, it sounds like he knew it as well. but full speed ahead. very very sad. maybe the family values crowd will stop shouting at everybody else now.