Imagine if, like Cindy McCain, Michelle Obama had started dating her husband when he was still married to another woman and had later been busted for stealing narcotics from her own charitable foundation. The media would be on it as if OJ had married Jamie Lynn Spears and Paris Hilton at a Texas polygamist compound in a ceremony officiated jointly by Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan during Tim Russert’s wake.

But since it’s Mrs. McMaverick, there’s nothing but crickets chirping. No wonder Mrs. McCain loves America so much.