Posted by
Lucas J. Boy on Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:57:44 AM
It’s always entertaining to witness the bizarre spectacle of Lefties suddenly and mysteriously contracting a sever case of moral indignation, symptomatically hissing with venom the “H” word. They’re now crawling out of their holes like so many crusading cockroaches. Brandishing one of their favorite epithets from their lexicon, “hypocrite”, they’re on the warpath. Nothing sets them off so much as much as the moral lapse of an evil conservative.
I’m not defending Governor Mark Sanford. At this point, I wouldn’t want him to be our president someday. Not so much for his “indiscretion” as for his stupidity in thinking he could jet off to Argentina for six days for a tryst and not be discovered. His bizarre press conference didn’t exactly help his case, either.
Liberals revel with glee in revelations that a conservative who espouses family values has violated those values, giddy with delight in knowing a Republican—especially a Christian one—has failed to live up to his own standards. At least conservatives have moral standards. When conservatives miss the mark, at least they’re aware that they’ve sinned against God’s transcendent law. Liberals, on the other hand, can cavort and copulate like mink without the slightest compunction.
It’s easy for conservatives to condemn the philandering escapades of an Elliot Spitzer. It’s much harder to label him a hypocrite. That’s because such immoral behavior is subtly—and, sometimes, not so subtly—endorsed and promoted by the secular Left. Who do you think championed the sexual revolution and the idiotic notion of “free love” in the seventies? Who do you think elevated Bill Clinton to the status of a rock star in spite of (or because of?) his unseemly sexual dalliances and peccadilloes? It’s no coincidence that it’s the ACLU that strives tirelessly to have the Ten Commandments removed from courthouses and other public buildings.
Mark Sanford, an Episcopalian, may avail himself of God’s forgiveness for breaking one of God’s commandments. And hopefully, Elliot Spitzer, too, has been absolved of his moral failure—getting caught—by his own Higher Power, his Inner Self. (It’s much easier to “obey”—if that word even applies—the feckless promptings of one’s own confused inner divinity than the unambiguous commandments of the Eternal God.)
If the charge “hypocrite” is leveled against anybody, it should be against liberals who normally disdain moral strictures but suddenly—and only—glory in them when they’re violated by a conservative.