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I never defended his actions.
Sure you haven't. :roll:
Saying they shouldn't be called out on it is defending his actions.
I never defended his actions.
Sure you haven't. :roll:
Saying they shouldn't be called out on it is defending his actions.
Sure you haven't. :roll:
Saying they shouldn't be called out on it is defending his actions.
Hmmm ...
I've never liked that argument. I, for one, don't feel that lack of condemnation = tacit approval.
That wasn't what I was talking about. Saying they SHOULDN'T be called out on something is approval. It's one thing to not call someone out on something, but to say they SHOULDN'T be called out on it is another which is what Chez said.
I never defended his actions.
Its the hypocrisy. Its like Al Gore having a 30k a month electric bill. Its the hypocrisy of it all. Everyone hates a hypocrite and as to your "no one is defending him".... Well being its Louisiana, I doubt this will hurt his political future at all. After all, the Republican "Family Values" Senator from LA, David Vitter was a client of the DC Madam and had a diaper fetish and the guy has since been reelected.
As to this whole liberals have lower standards, I would bet a paycheck that conservatives do not have lower divorce rates than liberals. The difference is that these social conservatives go out and run on a whole platform of "Christian Values", "Family Values", "Protect the Sanctity of Marriage" all the while sleeping with a staffer or cruising parks and rest stops.
Every one knows to get to that position of office you never tell the truth. ask obama he will tell you
As per usual, someone's gotta try to make it All About Obama.
We had eight years of it being all about Bush. So it's someone else's turn, with three more years to go.
Nonsense. I don't recall Bush getting dragged into the mix during, say, the Larry Craig scandal, do you?
So your argument is, "you did it first." Well, the fifth-grade playground called, it wants its excuse back.
That and "We need to do it better--as in spades."
Good find! The one HuffPo columnist who dredged up a five-year-old quote after Craig got busted shouldn't have. You see how stupid that was? Bush says hello to Larry Craig in 2002; after Craig gets nailed doing his wide stance, some idiot throws it at Bush a half-decade later. Completely pointless and lacking in both class and material value.
So your argument is, "you did it first." Well, the fifth-grade playground called, it wants its excuse back.
In all honesty, Lewis is a humorist, so I give him some latitude for that. But I don't think anyone got the daily dose of vitriol Bush did. By comparison, Obama gets a pass from much of the traditional media, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Nope, you just excused them..
Congratulations, then, you're contributing to the sewer-level political discourse we see today.
Perspective is key, I suppose. I think the "traditional media" kept way too many cockamamie things about Obama around (birtherism, for example) way longer than they ever merited.
BTW, this married staffer he was carrying on with is the wife of his friend since childhood. Its one thing to have an affair, its another to have an affair with your life long friend's wife. More so while you sell yourself as a family values, Christian, socially conservative congressman.
Perspective is key, I suppose. I think the "traditional media" kept way too many cockamamie things about Obama around (birtherism, for example) way longer than they ever merited.
Are there any conservatives who are defending Mr. McCallister, and saying that there is nothing wrong with this conduct?
I do not think anyone claims that all conservatives are perfect. We certainly stand for much higher moral standards than liberals do, and yes, sometimes, someone among us falls short of these standards. If this is what it is being made out (no pun intended) to be, then I will join in with any liberals in condemning both Mr. McCallister and Mrs. Peacock for their inappropriate behavior and their violation of their marital responsibilities.
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In all seriousness though, its not like Democrats don't have their share of sex scandals. The difference is the shear hypocrisy of the religious right / social conservative types when they get caught having one.
I was just going to use that example.
It , clearly and emphatically was not just about the make out session. It was the hypocrisy of someone running on Christian values going directly against those values.
Why is hypocrisy somehow worse than the action of a person when the action results in the same effect whether or not a person is hypocritical? Does it make a difference to a murder victim or the victim of theft if the murderer or thief is or is not hypocritical?
Have we really set the bar that low in what we expect of our elected leaders? So long as they aren't hypocrites, anything goes? It's okay to cheat on your wife so long as you aren't hypocritical about it? Never mind that the one who cheats on his wife might be expected to cheat on other things as well and that's okay so long as he isn't hypocritical about it?