You and me both.
Sadly, there are some types of conservatives out there who would lock up a minority in prison for life just for stealing a loaf of bread, but they bend over backwards to make excuses for dirtbags like Lay.
That's not me. I don't think there's anything noble whatsoever about white collar criminals. In addition to the lives that they help ruin, they do terrible damage to faith in our capitalist system.
Ditto!
Oh please.
No conservative is making excuses for Lay - he was a criminal, he was convicted and he was set to do some serious time and I don't know of any conservative who had a problem with it.
Likewise, I don't know of a single conservative who believes that stealing a loaf of bread is a life offense, or a conservative who feels that culpability for the theft of a loaf of bread is intensified or diminished depending upon the thief's race.
Utter hyperbole, and the kind of rhetoric I would expect to read in a Paul Krugman column, not on FR.