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Claims to fame: Widow of Sonny Bono, who took over the remainder of her husband’s term in Congress after he killed himself in 1998 by skiiing into a tree, and has somehow managed to keep getting re-elected ever since; Republican sex symbol (which is probably how she’s managed to keep getting re-elected); Clinton-basher; adulteress; soon-to-be divorcé
Moral apex: As of this writing, she’s married (again), but snogging with Florida rep Connie Mack — who’s also still married.
Plus, Larry Flynt’s The Flynt Report (1999) says Mary was engaged in a scorching extramarital affair while Sonny was still alive. That wouldn’t surprise us, since Mary admitted that the Bonos’ marriage was “troubled.”
This was confirmed by Sonny’s mother, Jean — a fiery old Sicilian, and “passionate” Democrat who was around 85 when Sonny died. Among many other things, Mrs. Bono told George Magazine: “About six months before [Sonny] died, he called me. He was alone and in tears. He said, ‘She kicked me out. She wants a divorce.’ He told me, ‘She’s fooling around.’”
And Palm Springs radio host Marshall Gilbert, a good friend of Sonny’s who has stuck his neck out to defend Mary, admitted to George: “Sonny did believe that she was having an affair with her karate teacher. There’s no doubt about that. Sonny told many people,” adding: “Mary says they were just friends.”
Punch line: Mary was the GOP’s star attack-dog (or, perhaps, as the only woman on the House Judiciary Committee at the time, attack-bitch) during President Clinton’s impeachment hearings, using her distaff advantage to drive home the usual right-wing talking points (e.g., the impeachment “was never about sex; it was about perjury” — yawn!) on TV news and talk shows.
Anything else? Yeah, but it has nothing to do with sex: She got into Scientology with Sonny (although we don’t know if she’s still practicing), and Scientology is… interesting stuff.
Single redeeming quality: This self-confessed “Reagan Republican” is (last time we checked) pro-choice.
Nevertheless: She still voted in favor of the trumped-up, fearmongering, and highly-misleading ban on “partial-birth” abortions, as did her old (dead) man, Sonny.
(This is typical of Bono on most issues: She talks like she’s going to break with the pack, then ends up voting the party line.)
Suggested Bible reading for Ms. Bono:
And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel 16:14-15
