In my view the biggest hypocrites to come out of the 2016 election are the religious right, who are still standing by their top guy after having an affair with a porn star and all the sexist/racist comments that he's made!!!! I think it's pretty immoral to suggest that getting a BJ from an intern in the WH is immoral but NOT sleeping with a porn star. :lamo
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/politics/tony-perkins-trump-affairs-mulligan/index.html
Pat Robertson once called President Clinton: a “debauched, debased and defamed” leader. Yet he's proud of Trump??
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-trump-daniels-affair/?utm_term=.509e35428d74
I've believed for many years the Religious Right was nothing more than a passel of hypocrites. Remember, I grew up strongly conservative, and most of my youth was as a Southern Baptist, so I got plenty of their rhetoric force-fed to me. But I think the first time that I began to really question what they were peddling was with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the PTL Club. Where I grew up, we had one - count 'em, ONE - television station (WABG), and not only was the PTL Club on five times a week, but when it came to prime-time programming, one week out of every month
without exception was devoted to the Billy Graham Crusade (who IMO would be ashamed at how his son has become a Trumpista).
Anyway, I saw Jim Bakker for the smarmy-faced liar he was right away...but my grandmother couldn't, and she sent money to him. I couldn't say anything (she was bipolar (I
think)and woe be unto anyone who rebuked her), and was not at all surprised when he was jailed for massive fraud...I never mentioned it to her - wouldn't have done any good. But now Jim Bakker's out there again, claim's he's repented (my ASS he has!), and he and Pat Robertson and all the other Religious Right loonies are still driving the GOP and conservatism to Crazy Town at ludicrous speed, nay, at
PLAID.
But as much as I liked Bush 41 (especially for not taking us to Baghdad (if only his son had listened)), I saw where the GOP was headed between the Religious Right and the pundits like Rush Limbaugh - they were all kingmakers for the GOP - no Republican politician dare question them or disagree with them, for with but a word any of them could end that politician's career. And I was right - ever since then, the GOP's been a circular firing squad powered by Fox, a never-ending game of I'm-more-conservative-than-the-next-guy, and it's led the GOP so far right that either Bush 43 or Reagan himself would be dismissed by the GOP rank-and-file as loony liberals...and Eisenhower would be tarred-and-feathered as an outright socialist.
So back to the Religious Right - they ARE hypocrites in every sense of the word. They ignore outright the teachings of Jesus beyond that which they want to hear.
What's saddest of all is that the overwhelming majority of today's conservatives are good, honest, well-meaning people with no malice in their hearts towards anyone...but they're being led by the Religious Right to support policies that are anathema to real Christianity, and to support as president a political demagogue who embodies much of what Jesus and His apostles preached against. It's a grand-scale exercise in mob mentality, and I shudder to think where it's going to lead.
