Jack Ryan, Family Values Hypocrite, Ends His Run to Be an Illinois US Senator for the GOP Amid Sex Scandal

by Eric Jaffa

June 26, 2004

Jack Ryan's wife looked like this:

and as an actress, sometimes like this:

But Jack Ryan had the nerve to tell Jeri Ryan "what to eat, how to sit, what to wear."

Furthermore, Jack insulted Jeri until she was "tired of being criticized about her physical appearance and told to exercise," according to Jeri's mother, testifying on what Jeri told her.¹

Jeri Ryan is an actress who starred in "Star Trek:Voyager" and "Boston Public."

Jack Ryan was the Republican candidate to be the next US Senator from Illinois until he dropped out yesterday, based on recent revelations of his behavior towards Jeri.

They were divorced in 1999, and records of their divorce and child custody battle (they have one son) were recently unsealed.

They records show that Jack Ryan took her to sex clubs, sometimes without telling her where they were going:¹

In her 2000 filing, Jeri Ryan alleged that after she and Jack Ryan left the first sex club they entered in New York, he asked her to go to another. She said he told her that he had gone out to dinner with her that night even though he didn't want to and "the least I could do in return was go to the club he wanted me to go."

She described the second place as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."

"Respondent wanted me to have sex with him there with another couple watching. I refused," Jeri Ryan continued. "Respondent asked me to perform a sexual activity upon him and he specifically asked other people to watch. I was very upset.

"We left the club and respondent apologized, said that I was right and he would never insist that I go to a club again. He promised it was out of his system."

But later, Jeri Ryan said, Jack Ryan took her to Paris where he again took her to a sex club without first telling her where they were going.

"I told him I thought it was out of his system. I told him he had promised me we would never go. People were having sex everywhere. I cried. I was physically ill. Respondent became very upset with me and said it was not a `turn-on' for me to cry. I could not get over the incident and my loss of any attraction to him as a result.

However, Jack Ryan's campaign website says:

JACK RYAN ON THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE

I believe that marriage can only be defined as that union between one man and one woman. I am opposed to same-sex marriages, civil unions, and registries.

I believe that we are all equal before God and should be before the law. Homosexuals deserve the same constitutional protections, safeguards, and human dignity as every American, but they should not be entitled to special rights based on their sexual behavior.

The breakdown of the family over the past 35 years is one of the root causes of some of our society’s most intractable social problems-criminal activity, illegitimacy, and the cyclical nature of poverty.

As an elected leader, my interest will be in promoting laws and educating people about the fundamental importance of the traditional family unit as the nucleus of our society.

In the wake of the recent Massachusetts State Supreme Court ruling that has spawned similar lawsuits in other states, it seems likely that defending traditional marriage and codifying that defense will be required at the federal level. As such, as a United States Senator, I would support legislation such as Senator Bill Frist’s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), provided the language remains clear in the defining of traditional marriage and protecting the traditional family unit.

If Jack Ryan re-marries, I suggest that he doesn't tell his second-wife she needs to eat less and exercise more.

And if his possible second-wife cries, I suggest not to say, "Crying isn't a turn-on."

By the way, Republican Jack Ryan's health care solutions are as uninspiring as his "traditional family" rhetoric. Instead of lowering the cost of health insurance through anti-trust action to increase competition, Jack Ryan wants to limit the damages which people injured by medical malpractice can collect Jack Ryan's approach is to blame the injured when insurance companies raise rates.

Jack Ryan also wants to cut the capital gains tax (the tax on investment profits) so that less money goes to "government bureaucrats." He says people need to personally address societal problems, not "hire a government bureaucrat to do it for us."

A problem with this is if taxes aren't collected from the rich when they make a lot of money from an investment, the middle class will have to pay those taxes from their wages. And if individual acts of charity were sufficient to address all social needs, then President Lyndon Johnson would have never expanded government services for the poor in the first place.

My final words to Jack Ryan, who will not be the next US Senator from Illinois, having dropped out yesterday:

Your mix of private callousness and public callousness won't be missed.

References

1. "Bombshell: Ex-wife says GOP Senate candidate took her to sex clubs," by John Chase and Liam Ford, Chicago Tribune, posted in the Florida Sun-Sentinal on June 22, 2004.

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