The Left's Many Double Standards

Today's liberals would have you believe they occupy the moral high ground on every political and cultural issue. But have you ever taken inventory of their double standards?

The left's inconsistency in applying their principles based on the party affiliation of those they're judging, gives fuller meaning to the concept of moral relativism. The only thing that's consistent is their reliable inconsistency, whether in the area of economic, social or national defense issues.

-- When "bimbo eruptions" threatened to derail Bill Clinton's campaign, his hit squad, the commander in chief of which was Hillary Clinton, eviscerated every accuser, inventing tales to destroy their character and distorting the facts of what occurred. When Ken Starr accused Bill Clinton of lying under oath, liberals turned their venom on him, accusing him of sexual perversion just for delving into the subject.

When Republicans argued that Clinton's serial sexual exploits, some of which had then occurred quite recently, demonstrated poor character, Democrats defiantly dismissed his actions as irrelevant to the performance of his presidential duties. These guardians of the fairer sex -- watchdogs of government corruption -- didn't care that Clinton's taking advantage of an intern in the Oval Office was a quintessential case of sexual harassment, given the power disparities between his station and that of Monica Lewinsky's. They even defended Clinton's perjury concerning the matter. Some argued that it was almost virtuous that he chose to lie under oath and protect his family rather than take the easy way out and come clean.

Today, liberals are in high dudgeon and probably higher conspiracy over sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain that supposedly occurred 14 years ago. CNBC's GOP presidential debate moderators pointedly asked Cain and one of his rivals Mitt Romney, whether a man guilty of such conduct had the requisite character to be president of the United States.

-- Democrats maligned former President George W. Bush's economy for the better part of his two terms, despite the robust growth, unemployment below 5 percent and a 2007 deficit less than 10 percent of what it is today. They tell us that President Obama's horrendous economy, on the other hand, is not even his fault.

-- Frustrated with their inability to succeed in talk radio and the resulting loss of their decades long national media monopoly, liberals have resorted to demonizing conservative talk radio and Fox News Channel, saying they habitually engage in hate speech of a sort that gives rise to violence. Following the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton himself shamelessly suggested there was a causal connection between that heinous crime and conservative talk. That there was no proof of such a connection didn't deter him and his ideological colleagues even slightly.

Similarly, when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot, liberals immediately jumped to the unwarranted conclusion that the shooter had been stirred into violence by conservative hate speech and particularly, a bulls-eye image from Sarah Palin. Discovering that the shooter was anything but right-wing didn't keep President Obama from framing his Tucson speech around the theme of civility in our political discourse. If he'd talked about European demographic trends in Late Antiquity, his speech couldn't have been any less relevant. But it would have been less politically inflammatory and exploitive.

Relevance aside, did Obama follow his own gratuitous admonitions to avoid embittered partisan rhetoric? Obviously not. He has repeatedly demonized Republicans both before and after Tucson, his favorite theme being class warfare. Just last week, he branched out from the politics of greed and envy and preposterously accused Republicans of blocking his recklessly wasteful environmental initiatives because they want dirty air and dirty water.

-- On a related matter, Democrats have slandered genuine grassroots Tea Partiers as lawless, racist, AstroTurf scofflaws who are sometimes even domestic terrorists, despite the Tea Partiers' peaceful, respectful behavior, no evidence of racism and almost no arrests at any of their events. Liberals pejoratively labeled them Tea Baggers and mocked their legitimate protests against the unprecedented spending of the Obama administration. But when leftist Occupy Wall Street protesters have truly been organized from above, have engaged in lawless and violent behavior leading to many arrests and have spewed anti-Semitic bile, liberals, including President Obama himself, have lionized them and identified with their cause.

-- When President Bush attacked Iraq with the Democrats' approval, based on a perceived and possibly actual national security threat, liberals savaged him as a lying warmonger. But when President Obama attacked Libya, let alone Egypt, without any discernible national security interest and without Congress's endorsement, liberals hailed his foreign policy acumen.

-- Democrats vilified Bush for enhanced interrogation techniques and domestic surveillance against terrorists, but now glorify Obama for his literal assassinations of terrorist leaders, and they look the other way as he continues many of the Bush era anti-terrorism strategies.

For the 3 minute, I have formed an opinion nightly news viewer, most can’t remember what they had for lunch let alone remember what Clinton did. All they know is the republicans set him up and thats all they need to know because thats what the media said. sad but true.

If bankrupting a great nation and throwing millions out of work does not disqualify a man for seeking a second term, obviously false allegations of being a cad 15 years ago should not disqualify a man for seeking a first.

The Dems and the left have never even pretended to have moral or ethical standards, and for this reason it’s very easy for them to defend any behavior by a leftist. The GOP and the right, on the other hand, at least claim to respect moral and civic values and thus at any real or imagined failure, the left, unfettered by such antiquated notions, is always able to scream that we are not adhering to our values.

I think our response has got to be to assert those values, however, not to dump them and say, “The Dems got away with it so we should too.” Their real victory will be in making us accept their lack of values and reducing us to their level.

AMPLIFY the logic by which liberal double standards are challenged. Keep pointing it out. It’s only fair.

You are very close in what you say.

We do often hold ourselves or at least try to hold ourselves to some sort of standards. And that lends itself to the left to nit-pick every perceived imperfection in our very human natures.

They key difference though is when we fail, we seek mercy, forgiveness, and even punishment for those failings.

Democrats/liberals/progressives do none of the above. For them punishment is vindictive. Justice is retribution.

Somehow we need to shine a light into that darkness.

If not for the left’s double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

The left judges people and situations based upon ever shifting criteria.

The sex harrassment area is a perfect example. We are supposed to be outraged about Herman Cain, were supposed to hyperventilate about Clarence Thomas. But in the case of Bill Clinton, the criteria for judgement were different.

It is the children, who exempt themselves from any responsibility for anything they do, criticizing the adults, who are expected to set the standard.

Liberalism is, at its core, malignant narcissism. I am smarter than you. I am better than you. I am smarter than God, history, or even reality. Narcissism is a form of childishness. It indicates stunted intellectual and emotional development.

The Left's Many Double Standards

Ha - you don't have time nor room to list them all here. Nor do any of us have time to read them all. But good job summarizing the lefts latest and greatest hits on the double-standard/hypocrisy parade...

It is SEDITION.

Look at the definitions. They (MSM and DEMS) are using misinformation and outright lies to influence people and, thus, elections so as to undermine our way of government. They are hiding behind and perverting our freedoms in order to do it.

When they starting using means to advocate the overthrow of the government (i.e. OWS), they cross the line into Treason. I cannot see how any of what most of the MSM outlets are doing is legal.

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