Another Hero of Capitalism

Unjustly persecuted by yet another union moocher.

The tragic fate of another victim of Obama's Culture of Socialism is callously milked for its Commie propaganda value by Logan Murphy of the Crooks & Liars Leftist cabal here:

Major Prop 8 Donor Doug Manchester Dumps His Wife
By Logan Murphy Friday Aug 14, 2009 12:00pm

From San Diego CityBeat:

In July 2008, hotelier and developer Doug Manchester donated $125,000 to help gather signatures for a proposition that would ban same-sex marriage in California. The early money was crucial to getting the initiative—which ultimately passed—on the ballot. At the time, he told The New York Times that he made the donation because of “my Catholic faith and longtime affiliation with the Catholic Church,” which preferred that marriage remain between a man and a woman. Indeed, the Catholic Church has vehemently opposed gay marriage. Then again, it’s also not too keen on divorce.

On Oct. 9, 2008, Manchester ended 43 years, eight months and nine days of marriage to Elizabeth Manchester by moving out of their La Jolla abode. The couple spent the next several months trying to reach a quiet settlement on how best to distribute millions of dollars in cash and other assets. In July, those talks totally broke down, and Doug started playing financial hardball with Elizabeth, allegedly draining the couple’s shared accounts and stealing her mail.
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This ardent defender of traditional marriage didn't just try to cover his buns in the divorce, he downright abused his wife of 43+ years:

In March, Doug told Elizabeth he’d no longer maintain the bank account the two shared to pay her expenses, and that she should submit her bills to his office. She followed this procedure, but was surprised to get a call from AT&T saying her bill was past due.
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As usual, the collectivist hive at Crooks and Liars misses the real story : that yet another featherbedding union slacker -- in this case the "Union of Marriage" -- has been busted trying to leech off of a Wealth Producer by waving their so-called "contract" around.

I mean, what did Elizabeth Manchester expect? That her employer husband would just carry her forever? Keep generously paying out on a contract for her to just keep doing the same job he hired her to do years ago? Negotiated under entirely different economic circumstances ?

Of course not.

As every Conservative knows, the core tenet of both Democracy and Christianity is that people who have lots of money are infinitely more valuable and worthy in the eyes of God and society than people who do not have lots of money.

Therefore democratic ideals and Sweet Baby Jebus are both best served when the wishes and whims of the wealthy are deferred to.

Therefore, as sure as night follows day, it was obviously Elizabeth Manchester’s responsibility to seek out the retraining, surgical and professional development opportunities necessary to modernize her skills in the vital but increasingly competitive "Snagging a Rich Guy" sector of the economy.

It certainly isn't her employer’s husband’s fault that she chose to fritter away her productive years instead saving and investing wisely as a hedge against the day her position might be eliminated, and it certainly isn't her employer’s husband’s responsibility that she now finds herself stranded in middle-age without the skills necessary to find a comparable position.

Because noble Conservative Christian Capitalist men don't dump their wives; they outsource them in acts of creative destruction that are ultimately good for the economy as a whole.

And despite the sappy delusions the Stalinists at Crooks and Liars are trying to peddle, this is not the 125,887th sad little story of yet another hypocritical Republican douchbag caught being a hypocritical Republican douchbag.

No, this the cautionary-but-ultimately-triumphant tale of a rugged individualist fighting the suffocating rules of corrupt Collectivism.

This is the story John Galt, Howard Roark and Jesus Christ -- all rolled into one and swinging Alan Greenspan’s big dick -- exercising the absolute right of the Productive Classes to ignore the petty laws, norms and conventions of the Little People.

This is the story of another union moocher who couldn't hack the competition and has been righteously kicked to the curb by the invisible foot of the marketplace.

Just as God intended.