Richard Cohen needs help. His op-ed in today’s Washington Post is about the three candidates for Hillary’s New York Senate seat. I think he is trying to show how political women are living how they want to live. The hell with their husbands and what the traditional roles should be. Fine, it may even be a good point, but this guy is so unabashedly partisan that it drives me nuts.

Apparently Mrs. Pirro’s husband was convicted of tax evasion. Ok. And he says that Bill Clinton was impeached as President. Yeah, so what’s your point? See what you think:

In the first place, as longtime fans of this column know, I am mostly an admirer of Bill Clinton and still think, as I hope he still does too, that he was indeed set up by a vast, right-wing conspiracy. This is not the case with Albert Pirro, whose “crime” was emphatically a crime and who leaves Bill Clinton in the dust on this and other scores. Pirro also fathered a child in an extramarital affair. You can, as they say, look it up.

That old line again? Gee Richard, is that the best you can come up with. The fact that Mr. Pirro fathered an illegitimate child shows what? That he liked cheating on his wife? Hmmm…what about good old “victim of a vast, right-wing conspiracy” Bill Clinton? He may have slept around, but at least he did not knock anyone up. So Clinton is better, how? Banging 20 something interns in the Oval Office and then lying about it to a Grand Jury is NOT because of a vast, right-wing conspiracy. He could have told the truth and life would have gone on as usual. Also, what about the allegations of outright rape? Anyway, I digress…

The hardest part to swallow (sorry) is when he starts talking about the quality of the Pirro’s and the Clintons marriage:

If anything, the Pirros make the Clintons seem as if they have a marriage out of an antique quilt. Jeanine Pirro has been quoted as saying that she’s sticking in her marriage because her husband is “the father of my children,” and then suggesting that the couple leads mostly separate lives anyway. “I don’t follow him around,” she once said. “I work 18 hours a day. I don’t want to hear about what he does. He doesn’t care what I do.” FTD would go broke on this couple.

Yeah, the Pirro’s have a hellish marriage. But at least they are honest about it. Good for her for being a strong woman who is married to a philanderer. But come on! Bill and Hillary have an old fashioned marriage. Gack! Somehow I know that the Clinton’s marriage is every bit as screwed up as the Pirro’s. To say differently, Richard, is to be blinded to reality. Raise your hand if you think Bill and Hillary sleep in the same bed at the same house more than 20 times a year? Also, when you see them together you so totally see that Hillary can not stand Bill. Let’s face it. She stuck with him so that she could get where she is today. There is no other reason. I would respect Hillary a lot more if she stood up and said, “Bill is a horse’s ass. I can not stand to be in the same room with him. The last time we had “sex” was the day he coughed up some of his boys so Chelsea could be conceived. The only reason I stay with him is for purely political reasons.” I guess I should not hold my breath on that one.

He ends with what his op-ed was all apparently about:

The Empire State’s women, at least some of those associated with politics, are showing themselves to be strong, steadfast, impervious to leering curiosity and willing to go their own way in marriage. No matter who wins, the cliche about a weaker sex is surely going to lose.

That is a fine premise for writing an op-ed, but next time be a bit less partisan. Just a bit.