engineer wrote:okie wrote:Rush had a right on summary opinion today. If Craig was a Democrat, Democrats would be bragging about him and defending him completely.
According to Democrats, what he did was probably to be complimented, but its the hypocrisy they attack. This allows Democrats to do anything they want, without holding themselves to any standards whatsoever. Agreed with Rush, this is exactly my assessment of it before I heard his.
Another point is that any Republican problem is characterized as a Republican Party problem, not an individual problem. Craig is just a typical Republican hypocrit, but William Jefferson is just having a few problems as an individual, but he is still a good Democrat, very socially moral (even if he is an outright criminal on a personal basis), so let him stay where he's at if he weathers the personal problems. Thats the spin put out by the Democrats. Very clever, and the main stream press reinforces the same spin.
I have to pinch myself to check and see if I am not dreaming about some of these events they are so bazaar and whacked out. Hillary could probably rob a bank in broad daylight and the press would say she just had a temporary lapse of judgement, so that makes her more human and more like us, and her poll numbers would go up. Thats actually similar to the spin placed on her husband, Bill.
I don't think your intrepretation matches the facts. Jefferson was rejected by his fellow Democrats and stripped of his house committees. Since the justice department hasn't bothered to convict him yet (??) and his home district re-elected him, I guess they're stuck with him. No one is out there praising his morals or asking him to say until "he works out his personal problems". There were a few out there saying "innocent until proven guilty", but that does not represent the entire party by a long stretch. Money in the freezer is pretty damning. Members of both parties protested his office search, but more on the grounds of congressional priviledge than any love of WJ. Maybe the question you should ask is why hasn't the Justice Department got around to having a trial.
If Craig was a Democrat, I think there would have been a lot more sympathy for his plight from fellow Dems. The Dems haven't been the ones throwing Craig under the bus. I saw some headline on a liberal blog suggesting that law enforcement has better things to do than chase men trying to mate. All that hate has come directly from his own party. If he had been caught in a bar asking to buy some lady a drink, no problem, but when he does the gay equivalent, his former buds lynch him.
I am tempted to agree with you on this,but there is a lot of evidence to support the claim that the dems rally around and defend their members that either break the law or otherwise commit acts that they shouldnt.
For Example...
Ted Kennedy, killed a woman and still serves in the Senate.
Patrick Kennedy, runs his car into a barrier at the Capitol building, either because he was drunk or high on some kind of drug.
He still serves in Congress.
William Jefferson, we all know his problems.
Alcee Hastings, former judge who was impeached AND removed from the bench for accepting bribes.
He now serves in Congress.
Bill Clinton, accused of rape,accused of groping a woman,lied to the grand jury,was forced to pay a settelment of a sexual harrassment case,etc.
There are many more on this list.
Now, I am not saying the repubs are any better,but the repubs seem to react and force the person to resign from Congress instead of allowing them to stay.
Many on the left seem to want to call the repubs hypocrites because of people like Craig,who pay lip service to having some standards and morals yet they act the way he did.
It seems to me that the left is calling the repubs hypocrites, yet ignoring the behavior that both repubs and dems are doing.
If its hypocritical to fail to meet the standards you have set for yourself,do the dems have any standards at all?
Is there any behavior that the dems will condemn,or is it just the perceived hypocrisy they are condemning?