You Hypocrite!

Yesterday, listening to one of the discussion panels on Fox news, I heard a female guest, very clearly on the liberal side, explain what she understood to be hypocrisy.  Her example gives us a clear understanding of how the Left views hypocrisy.

When a Republican member of the house, Mr. Lee, exposed himself by simply taking off his shirt, he was so roundly chastised by House speaker Boehner and told to resign, he did so immediately; minority speaker Nancy Pelosi also had called for his immediate resignation.

On the other hand representative Weiner of New York has not been asked to resign by any member of the Democratic Party including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi.  Minority Speaker Pelosi simply asked for an investigation, in spite of the far more revealing poses of himself Wiener sent over the Internet to women unknown to him. He continues to refuse to resign but has asked for a "short" leave of absence.  Minority House leader Pelosi suggests that his constituents decide whether he stays or not, in 2012; an interesting suggestion in light of polls showing a significant majority would re-elect him.

The liberal lady guest on Fox News opined that the requested resignation for Mr. Lee was called for because
Lee was elected on a platform of the necessity of Representatives like himself to adhere to a moral code.  Thus Mr. Lee was a hypocrite whose resignation was thus called for.  On the other hand Weiner is no hypocrite since he did not seek election on a platform such as Mr. Lee.

In other words, since Democrat politicians do not seek office on any platform based upon moral precepts connected with any religious or non-religious conviction or faith, they cannot be held accountable IN THEIR POLITICAL LIFE for any set of moral values, religious or otherwise.

Common sense and a universal code of normal behavior should dictate proper behavior for any politician whether or not such principles are enunciated in campaign literature or campaign speeches.  However, such a sense of proper behavior is not part of the political conscience of the progressive members of the Democratic Party; for them the rule is anything goes as long as they cannot be prosecuted or jailed for a wrongdoing.  This is just a small piece of the problem good men and women are up against in trying to save America and restore individual freedom.