Hart was a presidential candidate in 1988 who was forced from the race when reporters discovered him emerging from a woman's home at suggestive hours and after pictures were published showing Donna Rice sitting on his lap aboard the deliciously named boat Monkey Business. Now Hart tells George magazine that how a man treats his wife and children is more important than whether he has affairs. Surely most married women would regard fidelity as good treatment and infidelity as a form of abuse.
Infidelity constitutes a breach of trust, and trust is a central character component in any leader.
Counselors are overwhelmed with men and women wrestling with anger and destructive relationships brought on by the failure of a parent to honor wedding vows. Hart also suggests in the interview that if we make marital fidelity a standard for leadership, we will have mediocre leaders. We've heard this curious claim before. It implies a correlation between promiscuity and leadership skills and mental acuity. If this is so, Bill Clinton probably scores as the greatest president in history.