Just who do the liberals think they are claiming to have some type of "moral authority" ?

Answer 1

This really bothers me also! I totally agree with you! While they are touting their morals, they fail to see the "big picture" & actually hurt or inhibit the very people or causes they claim to help. For example, putting the environment before national security: Upon being invaded by terrorists, there won't be a platform for them to exercise their freedom of speech about the trees. How are those priorities moral, when we need to secure our borders that allow us to excercise our own morals on this land. Makes no sense to me!

Answer 2

You think moral authority is only for conservatives? You've been sniffing glue gain or something. Lately I have seen much more corruption, thus moral decay, amongst Republicans (Conservatives) than Democrats (Liberals). Tom DeLay, Mark Foley both are very moral fellows are they? I don't believe either are Democrats or Liberals. Then there was Ken Lay, Skilling, both Republicans. I could go on but I don't have time and the list of "moral" conservatives is much too large to put here.

Answer 3

I don't know... I mean... who is anyone to say they have moral authority...

the only thing I find funny is that conservatives base their "moral authority" on a book that's over 1,000 years old and says "a camel can pass through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man can get into heaven"... even though many of them are wealthy (they also seem to think wealth gives them some sort of moral authority too)...

the simple fact is... both parties have members who fail... and both parties have fundamental moral flaws...

Answer 4

Well, lets see. The "Moral Majority" and other neoconservative "Christian" political groups have been claiming a moral authrity--and have given us such sterling examples as Mark Foley and Ted Haggard (plus lesser lights such as Cunningham, Ken Lay, etc.)

So if liberals want to claim a moral authority, it would seem we've gote more cause. Liberals may not be perfect--but the right needs to clean up its act before it starts talking about morality.

Answer 5

Con's hold the same belief. Who's right and who's wrong? And are people who are continually throwing their beliefs and ways of life on other people's faces really an authority of morals?

Both sides need to shut up on the issue. Because why should anyone tell me what I do is wrong? Who made anyone an expert? Especially opinionated keyboard warriors.

Answer 6

Since it's a general question I will answer with a general statement. It's pretty much how everyone works. They don't think they are moral authority , they just make their opinion.

Answer 7

What are you talking about? I don't claim to have any moral authority.

Answer 8

No one has "moral authority", but liberals are more understanding when it comes human rights. Conservatives are closed minded and ignorant when it comes to the future.

Answer 9

Now that they are in the majority they better have a moral authority!
But you're right, we need our president to say those things even though he gives amnesty programs to illegal immigrants, restricts the Habeas Corpus in our Constitution with the Patriot Act, spends irresponsibly, maintains secret prisons for torture, and lies to us about a link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda.

Answer 10

It's immoral to me the way Bush is hiding our guys who have
been injured or killed in Iraq. Bush has also cut funding to take
care of these veterans. Bob Woodruff, the journalist, who
suffered a severe head injury while doing a story on Iraq,
reported on this last night. If 10pm is past your bedtime, that
would explain why you're unaware of this atrocity.

Answer 11

I'm a conservative and I thought conventional wisdom held that we were the morally judgmental ones! LOL. Of course, I don't believe that, but I am curious about the sentiment behind your question.

When it comes down to it, irrespective of ideology, don't we all view ourselves as very open-minded and "the other guy" as a judgmental twit?