Considering the flurry of scandals over the past few years? I am not even syaing that Dems have not had scandals too, but we don't pretend like we are in some way morally superior. It just looks ridiculous when you have had scandal after scandal and continue to say that you are morally superior to Democrats.
2007-09-25 08:03:07 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
whoops...silly
2007-09-25 08:07:16 · update #1
beautifully...you can't really believe that...if you do, I feel sorry for you.
2007-09-25 08:08:16 · update #2
By sheer audacity.
2007-09-25 08:06:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I would suggest that your average American, whether conservative, liberal or somewhere in between, lives what most would agree is a fairly moral life. I would suggest that the same is true for politicians. However, where the Republican politicians fail is in denouncing Democrats for being baseless and immoral, while repeatedly professing themselves to be moral, and then getting caught in the lie. It's the hypocrisy that I find unacceptable. The Vitter's come out publicly against the Clinton's PERSONAL problems when it is politically convenient to do so, and then it turns out that they are just as susceptible to these foibles. They should all shut up about how morally righteous they are, and set about doing the people's work. That is what I intend to continue judging them on.
2007-09-25 15:17:27 · answer #2 · answered by 8of2kinds 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just as silly as the stereotypes people shove in our faces. Both sides of the aisle have garbage. Come up with real details like why no one is capable of getting anything done in the Senate, why we have so many running instead of seated where they belong and a dozen concerns beyond the witch hunts. It is an election season and mud slinging is thick. Politics as usual. No no change just experience in the obvious. Give me depth not all this mumbo jumbo. You forget your golden boy lied to a Grand Jury and is the Master at deception w/out morals. Thanks.
2007-09-25 15:43:06 · answer #3 · answered by Mele Kai 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As a party, the Republican party is morally superior to the Democrat party...it's really simple, you just insist on measuring yourselves by the very bottom of the barrel and saying "I'm better than THAT." The bottom of the barrel represents the bottom of the barrel, not the party...is everyone in the Democrat party Ted Kennedy?
2007-09-25 15:08:39 · answer #4 · answered by makrothumeo2 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
American conservatism is like a religious cult.Everyone in the outside world is out to get them(liberal bias).They alone have the Holy truth and must protect and save America.
Because they are on a Holy mission to save the world fact,reason and truth are less important than their political gain.So it's perfectly OK to use lies and slander of opponents but excuse and ignore immoral behavior of their own.They don't see it so it isn't there.Keeping their image clean is more important than the truth.
2007-09-25 15:30:01 · answer #5 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's extremely silly. Consider this, every sex scandal that has happened since Clinton has involved Republicans. Hypocrisy anyone? At least when the Democrats get caught with their pants down it isn't gay related. When the holier-than-though homosexuality-fearing Republicans get caught with little boys and crazy bathroom gay sex rings it certainly makes things quite interesting.
But don't fear, they always have an excuse. None of it involving personal responsibility.
2007-09-25 15:20:22 · answer #6 · answered by Big Paesano 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Libs have always felt they are intellectually superior, and that has always been unjustified. Since most conservatives don't have extra-marital relations, or take money from the mob and stash it in the freezer; we can safely hold on to both moral and intellectual superiority.
2007-09-25 15:19:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You can't hold someone else accountable for another's immoral actions. Just because Craig was soliciting sex in a men's bathroom doesn't make all Republicans closet homosexuals. Just because Foley was chasing pages doesn't make every Republican a gay lecher. We love to bash Clinton for what he did, but I've never seen a conservative suggest that ONE INCIDENT meant the entire Democratic party was composed of womanizing sexists that cheat on their wives. If you can't see this distinction then perhaps you should take a step back and try to comprehend. Republicans do tend to live very moral lives, by pointing out 2 or so that don't you fail to convince me that they are hypocritical in using that as a platform.
2007-09-25 15:10:45 · answer #8 · answered by Pfo 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Hypocrisy is common in the political arena -- for Republicans and conservatives, the hypocrisy is generally between what the claim to value and what they actually do.
For Democrats, the hypocrisy is generally between what they promise to do, and what they actually do.
Both are bad -- which is worse is up to you.
2007-09-25 15:07:33 · answer #9 · answered by coragryph 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
How hilarious is it that liberals continually play the innocence card about this very issue?
2007-09-25 15:16:58 · answer #10 · answered by Bacon 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Because conservatives try to create laws that are based on morals ......... while liberals misinterpret the Constitution that it bans laws based on morals, so liberals "strike down" laws made by conservatives.
Coragryph:
I could cite a couple of opinions written by Sup. Ct. Justices W. O. Douglas and W. J. Brennan in which they say ourageously hypocritical things -- and not at all because they did not fulfill their promises.
"Our conclusion ... is based, not on what we think governmental policy should be, but on what the Equal Protection Clause requires." -- Harper v. Va. Brd of Elec. (1966).
And see Brennan's dissent in Labine v. Vincent (1971) in which he claimed that the majority opinion did not offer even one rational argument supporting its conclusion.
2007-09-25 15:06:58 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 6⤋