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"MORAL CRIPPLE" LEADS G.O.P. MORALITY OFFENSIVE Accused Domestic Abuser Don Sipple Keeps Pounding Away Weirdo Praises Bush�s "Moral Authority" First Fund, Now Sipple � Yet There�s Hardly A Ripple Readers of the Los Angeles Times were recently treated to an opinion page lecture from G.O.P. strategy kingpin Don Sipple, praising George W. Bush for his "moral authority" and advising Bush to use it in the current crisis over the American corporate crime wave. Never mind about Harken Bush�s complete lack of moral authority in these matters. Who is Don Sipple � a man Arianna Huffington once described as "a moral cripple" � to be telling anybody anything about morality? Sipple, as Washington political observers know well, is a highly successful Republican image-maker. He has worked in the past on the campaigns of George W. Bush, Robert Dole, and John Ashcroft, among others. His specialty has been inventing the nasty modern G.O.P. brand of �character politics,� promoting mediocre men with regressive politics while trashing the personal reputations of their Democratic opponents. But as all Washington also knows, Don Sipple is a poster-boy of G.O.P. hypocrisy � an accused wife beater notorious for his intense rages and his vicious vindictiveness. Sipple�s first wife, Regina, stayed married to him for five years, enduring, by her account, numerous verbal and physical assaults. Once a stunning fashion model, she ended up having to recover from various batterings, including one in 1977 that, she says, left her face badly bruised. Sipple�s second marriage, to Deborah Steelman, lasted less than four years. According to court documents, Steelman testified that Sipple was a violent irrational man who physically attacked her repeatedly, in public as well as in private, which led her finally to leave him. When Mother Jones magazine reported on these matters, Sipple responded with a $12.6 million defamation suit against the magazine and its reporter, Richard Blow. Both of Sipple�s ex-wives vouched for the accuracy of the article, and a California judge threw out Sipple�s suit as a transparent and desperate effort to bully the press. None of this has stopped G.O.P. candidates from hiring Sipple as their chief media adviser. Earlier this year, Sipple worked for G.O.P. gubernatorial hopeful Richard Riordan, in unsuccessful primary campaign that received strong backing from the Bush White House. And now, here�s Don "Moral Cripple" Sipple, spinning and doling out advice about morality and character and about Dubya�s vast resources of authority to the readers of the Los Angeles Times! MWO has sometimes wondered if Sipple the moral cripple has inspired false stories about Democrats' private lives, including false stories about spousal abuse. Matt Drudge's notorious smear of Sidney Blumenthal, reportedly abetted by John "Restraining Order" Fund, mentioned Sipple by name as someone the press might want to lay off. Was the smear simply part of Moral Cripple's earliest efforts to deflect the effects of the Mother Jones article, which appeared at the same time as the Drudge smear? But those questions now take a back seat now to two bigger questions. First: Why is it that two of the G.O.P.'s loudest advocates of character and morality are a pair of men, Sipple and Fund, with official histories of domestic violence and abuse? Second: Is the press's attention span so reduced that it doesn't even remember who Don Sipple was � and who he is? Commentary; The Bully Pulpit Needs a Preacher The Los Angeles Times; Jul 22, 2002 (Must purchase) Don Sipple With his popularity strong, President Bush is in a unique position. After all, he owes his election in large part to Bill Clinton. In our amazing and enduring self-correcting democracy, George W. Bush was the "repenter" who replaced the "sinner." Thus, Bush's elevation to the presidency had moral undertones. So who better to lead us out of our ethical-moral quagmire? Bone-Chilling: Mother Jones article, 1997 Surely, Regina thought, after hearing her stories of abuse, the judge would not give custody of the boy to a man Evan didn't want to live with. She couldn't imagine a more explosive combination. Under Durley's questioning, she testified about the violence. "Were you physically abused by Don?" Durley asked. "Yes," she said. "Did he, in addition to [hitting] you, did he push you, kick you, pull you?" "All of the above." "Is that the reason you left Don and asked for the divorce?" "Yes." Durley submitted as evidence a photograph, dated April 1977 on the back, of Regina, her face puffy and decorated with ugly black-and- blue bruises. ... Regina's case looked strong when Debbie Steelman, a last-minute witness, arrived. Her presence there was the result of a sad instinct; Regina had told Durley that if Don had beaten her, he might well have done the same to Steelman. So Durley called Steelman, who hesitantly admitted that she, too, had been beaten by Don. ... "During the time you were married to [Sipple]," Colly Durley asked, "did he physically abuse you?" "Yes." "Were you afraid of Don?" "Yes." "Did you leave Don because of the abuse?" "The day I left him," Steelman replied, "was very difficult, and I never looked back. No matter what he said about me later, no matter what he'll say about me after this, it was because I was hit." Email the LA Times. Forward the Mother Jones article. 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