Mark Sanford and the Left's Romper Room Commentary

The American Thinker ^ | July 03, 2009 | Selwyn Duke

[Scanian]

There is probably nothing that pleases our libertine left more than a social conservative's fall from grace. Just witness the predictable feeding frenzy that ensued when South Carolina governor Mark Sanford confessed to marital infidelity. Why, so voracious are his critics that a Google search for Sanford's name in parentheses and the word "hypocrite" yields 20,600 of their pages.

Among other things, with the governor's condemnation of Bill Clinton's serial adultery in the 1990s, the left has put him in a glass house the size of the Crystal Cathedral. And, in all fairness, Sanford should be taken to task. We all have a duty to hold our leaders to the highest standards, and I'll be the first to say that if a politician -- regardless of party or passions -- cannot uphold sterling moral and ethical standards, he needs to go. Yet would the left join me in this? Would they say, "You know what, you're right; we can't subordinate virtue to political expediency"? Not going to happen, not with this childish bunch.

On the contrary, whether it's Clinton, Barney Frank, Mel Reynolds, John Edwards, Gerry Studds or someone else, liberals tend to circle the wagons around transgressing brothers regardless of the offense. Reynolds, convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault on a 16-year-old, was pardoned by Clinton; Studds, who had an affair with an underage boy, was re-elected six times by Massachusetts voters. Hey, people in glass houses protect other people in glass houses.

Of course, it's no secret that leftists couldn't care a whit about sexual impropriety. How could they? Once you've rubber-stamped homosexual behavior, it follows that everything just a lifestyle choice.

In fairness again, however, not too many leftists try very hard to feign outrage at the violation of marriage

[RoadTest]

“There is probably nothing that pleases our libertine left more than a social conservative’s fall from grace”

Indeed. It’s as if the Demonrats thought we were saying “We don’t sin”. If we said that we’d make God out to be a liar. (I John 1:10)

But they take sin and make it the basis for their law - they rearrange the law to fit their practice and habits. Sick. Worse than that for them. The Law doesn’t get changed at all.

We who say we are Christians are sinners saved by Grace. The Standard that we are judged by never changes.

[samtheman]

This is so far over the head of the average leftist university professor that the writer might as well be teaching advanced calculus courses to inmates in the local dog-pound.

They’re just not going to understand it.

And as for the leftist underlings of the world, who go around slavishly repeating what the leftist university professors (and other leftist opinion leaders) have taught them to dutifully slavishly repeat, I’m not sure they can even read the actual words. They have a peculiar form of dyslexia. If it’s not leftist propaganda, the words themselves don’t make it into the brain.

[napscoordinator]

All of this is true, but I do believe the media interest would have lesson had Sanford simply would have done one press conference instead of one everyday. Sorry but it is partially his fault for the interest in the story.

[Scanian]

That’s exactly what the Godless left fails to grasp: if we believers could live sinlessly, what need for a Saviour would we have?

[flowerplough]

There is probably nothing that pleases our libertine left more than an outspoken, ambitious, social conservative’s fall from grace. And little angers me more than the outspoken, ambitious, liberal elite making important decisions for me, without asking me first. Believe it was January, 2008 when Bammy said, “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, but we also take responsibilty for our sins.

The charge of hypocrite against Stanford is accurate, he hasn't stepped down and continues to blabber about his sins trying to justify them.