Crippling Politics

Why doesn't anyone point out that John McCain returned from Vietnam in his crippled state to a wife who was also crippled from a car accident. Being a prisoner of war hero and all, John-boy decided he needed and deserved a younger and more appealing woman (after all, the car accident did make her shorter and distorted and he had his own crippled image to consider).

From Wikipedia:
While visiting her family in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve 1969,[13] Carol McCain was driving alone in snowy, icy conditions. Approaching an intersection on an isolated country road, she skidded and collided with a telephone pole, was thrown from the car into the snow, and went into shock. Some time later she was found and taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital;[9] she had two smashed legs, a broken pelvis, broken arm, and ruptured spleen. She spent six months in the hospital, and over the course of the next two years had 23 operations[9] as well as extensive physical therapy.[15] She did not tell her husband about the accident in her letters to him, believing he already had enough to worry about,[9] and the U.S. State Department told a surgeon who operated upon her not to mention anything to the press, lest it worsen the treatment for John McCain.[16] Businessman and POW advocate Ross Perot paid for her medical care[17]and she remained grateful to him: "The military families are in Ross's heart and in his soul ... There are millions of us who are extremely grateful to Ross Perot."[18] Years after John McCain found out about Perot's help, he said "we loved him for it."[19] She was interviewed on the CBS Evening News in 1970, and said that Christmas had no meaning for her without her husband present, but that she carried on with it for the sake of their children.[13]The McCains were reunited upon his release from captivity on March 14, 1973.[20] She was now four inches (ten centimeters) shorter, on crutches, and substantially heavier than when he had last seen her;[17] he was also visibly hampered by his injuries and the mistreatment he had endured from the North Vietnamese.

McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later....'My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’