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baloney...

I normally would agree with you.
BUT, this is a consistant pattern with us.

The sooner we admit it and deal with it, the better.
We have a judgementalism problem that is costing us a moral agenda. People make mistakes. We have to learn how to rehab folks who fail... folks like YOU as well as ME... for we all do FAIL, MORALLY and othewise.

Denying we have a problem with judgementalism that is hindering our positive agenda, is like LOTT denying he has a problem with his mouth, whilst being the equivalent of "speaker of the house" for us as "senate majority leader."

We got a problem with the holier than thous.
THEY need to get over thinking THEY can hold people to a higher standard than even GOD does... in something as carnal as human politics.

We have our own moral crisis in the Church and it ain't about divorce and marriage to a member of the opposite sex. Were OUR own house in order, I could see where a little harshness might fit in with our world view... as it is, with pedophilic homosexuals running rampant across denominational lines... we cannot expect a man whose wife left, to stay single like a priest, or widowed pastor.

double standards make me sick, and not just when liberals use them... we have our own double standards.

The blood of children yet unborn is on the hands of those who refused to vote prolife over an ALLEGED affair, after an amicable and uncontested divorce of a good man, by a woman who loathed political life altogether.

Get out of denial. We have a problem with our own double standard and "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at any cost," moral superiority...

otherwise, on the michelle malkin "growl..." I would hasten to agree with you as on other issues. On this one. I don't.
FWIW... and I know it aint much.

The sooner we admit it and deal with it, the better. We have a judgementalism problem that is costing us a moral agenda. People make mistakes. We have to learn how to rehab folks who fail... folks like YOU as well as ME... for we all do FAIL, MORALLY and othewise.

This isn't about a guy with a divorce in his past. Reagan had that, and Republicans were OK with that.
This is about a guy who dumped his wife for a younger woman and didn't break a sweat. Screw him and the horse he's riding out on. He shouldn't have left his wife, shouldn't have been so crass, and if he couldn't help that, he should have stepped down and let a decent candidate run.
The real problem in our party is that our politicians think we owe them something, like our votes. My franchise is the currency of my political influence. I'll spend it as I please.