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Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP

by: TwoPuttTommy

Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 08:52:09 AM CDT


Eric Cantor, R=Hypocrite, was on Fox News yesterday, trying - TRYING - to make the argument that after being elected on a  "Family Values" platform, getting caught in, say, an "unFamily Values affair" doesn't much matter in today's GreedOverPrinciples Party.  Let's watch!


(h/t to CrooksAndLiars.com)

What makes this performance by Eric Cantor, R=Hypocrite, even more hypocritical, is the smear campaign directed at GOPer Laura Brod - allegedly masterminded by high-level state GOPers.

Transcript of Cantor's We-a Not-a Culpa and a couple of thoughts below the fold.

TwoPuttTommy :: Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP
WALLACE: Finally, when you've got Republican leaders like Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina or Nevada Senator John Ensign admitting to extramarital affairs and staying in office, questionable use of either private funds or state money, in the case of Sanford, doesn't the GOP, with all its talk of family values, risk looking like a bunch of hypocrites?

CANTOR: Look, I mean, is anyone happy to see all that have happened? No. I mean, it's not good. But listen. We have our thoughts with their families and they themselves.

However, look. The party is not just about personalities. It's about ideas. It's about our ability to go out and prove that yes, we can lead this country again. So we have got a plan. We are talking about the solutions that actually can address some of the problems that working people in this country are facing, and we're going to do that over the course of the next 16 months.

WALLACE: But if you're going to talk the talk, why not walk the walk and say, "You know what? They should step down?"

CANTOR: Well, listen. I mean, again, I say in the instance of the people in South Carolina and Nevada, it is up to them, and those are the elected individuals by those states.

And again, it's not about, necessarily, these personalities. The direction of this country -- and the challenges that we face are enormous. And we ought to be talking about how to go about creating jobs again. We ought to be talking about the things that matter most to people in this country.

WALLACE: Congressman Cantor, we want to thank you. Thanks for coming in today and please come back, sir.

Everybody catch that?  Let's do that again:

We ought to be talking about the things that matter most to people in this country.

Two Points:

One - if the situation were reversed, does anyone really think that Cantor would be saying the same thing about a Democrat that got caught with the proverbial pants around the ankles? and...

Two - while Cantor, a national high-level GOPer is defending Sanford and Ensign at the national level, it's allegedly state high-level GOPers trashing Laura Brod at the state level.

Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP.  

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There's more to it even than committing adultery while running on a holier-than-thou platform. If a candidate claimed he was an economist and only an economist could cope with current problems, and then it turned out he wasn't really an economist, would it be wrong to demand he resign? By his own argument, he would be unfit for office. So if a candidate wins because he claims to be some great family man, and then it turns out he isn't, why shouldn't he be deemed unfit by his own standard?

Also notice "family values" is a virtue only if you're positions are theologically correct. We have two senators (isn't that nice to say!) who appear to have model families. Do they get credit for that? No. I guess they'll have to act morally superior to get credit.



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