Is it True that Politicians’ Infidelity is Getting Ignored More and More?

Infidelity is a big problem in relationships. Even well celebrated politicians suffer from it. Who would have forgotten about Bill Clinton’s extra marital relationship with an intern, Monica Lewinsky?

In the recent political campaign of Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton’s distinguished wife, people can’t help thinking how the two had remained married years after the scandal. Is their marriage a political arrangement? But the more important question is whether or not Bill’s philandering ways be the factor that would keep Hillary from being the next President.

Bill Clinton is not the only unfaithful husband. In the pool of today’s politicians, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Newt Gingrich have had issues about infidelity at some point in their past that they have to deal with.

In a survey conducted by Newsweek, 43% of Americans said that they wouldn’t be voting for candidates who have had extramarital affairs. And more than half of Republican evangelicals had agreed to it.

Even so, it is rather interesting to note that Rudy Giuliani is currently the Republican front-runner. And he does have strong support from the evangelical groups at that.

With this development, it is safe to assume that American people are changing when it comes to accepting a certain politician’s infidelity. Today, Americans think that a politician’s infidelity is bad trait. But they are starting to live with it just the same.

The rules of fidelity had changed from 1970’s up to the present times. The living proof of this is the transformation of marriage into something that has become so disposable. No-fault divorce has been adopted by a number of states. And the divorce rate had doubled from 1967 to 1979.

By 1990, the concept of infidelity had taken a slight turn. It has ceased to be merely a relationship problem. It had become a physical or a societal disorder. And so the role of therapists and counselors to save marriages has been on the rise.

When Bill Clinton had been unfaithful in 1998, Congress had initiated an impeachment complaint against him. Bill was wise to admit to the public that he merely had lapse in his judgment. And that what he had done is a personal failure. Then he went on apologizing for it.

And the American people had accepted his apology. As a result, he continued on to serve as the president. The impeachment complaint died. But the more notable thing that happened is that his approval rating had soared to 73% – an all-time high with any president who had served in the white house.