Stand By Your Man

It's becoming a trend now for wives of politicians or entertainers to stand by their man whenever they've been the subject of public humiliation. Most of them have been involved allegedly in some suspicious sexual activities. All of them have been caught cheating on their wives(Kwame, Clinton...)or were lurring congressional pages into sex activities(Folley), or engaging in same sex activities (former New Jersey Governor and Senator Craig). To avoid any long lasting public scrutiny they had to face the world and either admit or deny the allegations in some cases both and apologize to their families and friends for the shame it brought on them.
We are not here to judge them for their actions, because anybody makes mistakes and is entitled to forgiveness at some point, we don't know what's going on in the private life of those public figures. However my focus is on the spouses of those cheating men who keep standing by their man to show some type of support when instead the wife is the victim in the whole situation. I don't get it ladies.
It's a selfish disrespectful act to even dare ask her to be part of the Press conference. So I don't get it women, is it because you're trying to protect some interests (money,fame)? I understand you don't want to turn your back on many years of marriage, your family and kids, but you are supposed to be mad, don't act all calm and collected, forgetful and forgiven, the man just humiliated you. By standing there you are sending mixed messages not only to him but also the public. I understand no major decision should be made in the heat of the moment, you are probably planning on divorcing the dude, but why stand by him? why hold his hand? PR move? probably. At this point you don't owe him any more favors ladies, so instead of standing by your man you should start standing on your own.