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To: cake_crumb
I confess, I've wondered that off and on myself.

It is better to think of Bush 41 or Reagan. Of course the left would demand we hold Bush 43 to the same standards we wanted to hold Clinton to. Here's the thing they don't get---we WOULD.

To really expose their hypocrisy is to contemplate the Bush 41 or Reagan having an affair while in office--just a normal relationship one and not even reaching the depravity that was going on in the Oval Office with 42. We can then contemplate how they would have reacted before being in a position to defend their boy (and boy he remains). The left would have led the parade to decry such conduct and we'd have had none of that "personal life" garbage or "compartmentalization" nonsense. And again, our side would have concurred and an impeachment wouldn't have been necessary. Like Nixon, our own side would have demanded they step down having been found to have disgraced the office.

665 posted on 08/03/2004 4:03:31 PM PDT by cyncooper ("We will fear no evil...And we will prevail")
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To: cyncooper
"Of course the left would demand we hold Bush 43 to the same standards we wanted to hold Clinton to. Here's the thing they don't get---we WOULD."

Actually, they DO get that we would, they just don't get WHY we would. That's why the left generated that rumor that Bush may have paid for an abortion sometime in the distant past. Also why the confusion and accusations of hypocrisy when we were underwhelmed.

It's easy to sit on high and think about conservatives all day long. Analyzing them in an iltellectually divorced fashion so as not to bias your conclusions, hypothesizing about them and becoming an all around expert on them.

Problem is, without throwing yourself into WHY we act, feel and think the way we do, you can study us for 50 years without ever knowing us. In the end, you've learned nothing, and your well laid plans fall flat instead of illiciting the response you expect.

724 posted on 08/03/2004 4:22:27 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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