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Human beings make mistakes. Especially ones in matter of personal judgment. Yet there is a double standard. Democrats escape accountability for betraying marriage vows and committing adultery. Republicans get run out of town when its discovered they spent time visiting a brothel. Liberals are understanding of Villaraigosa. But conservatives - at least social conservatives, think that David Vitter is a tarnished man who needs to be punished for breaking his marriage vow. Never mind his solid conservative record! Force him out of office! Its not like he harmed any one else except himself and his family. All we do is give the truly depraved and corrupt an advantage in public life by adhering to the double standard.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

1 posted on 07/11/2007 4:12:49 PM PDT by goldstategop
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I think the only people who want to see Vitter out of office are people who don’t live in his state, in other words, their opinion doesn’t really matter.


2 posted on 07/11/2007 4:14:48 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691
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EXACTLY.


3 posted on 07/11/2007 4:16:03 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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Bumping what you said...


5 posted on 07/11/2007 4:23:15 PM PDT by firewalk
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If you bill yourself as a conservative you don’t engage in extramarital sex with prostitutes or anyone.....you dont even let yourself alone in the presence of another woman if you are in politics...and if you are sincere then in all your life.

It’s just simple logic. Vitter clearly has or has none.

I am not supporting Vitter and his lame excuse no matter where he is from..he is no friend of conservatives..he is a major hypcrite.


7 posted on 07/11/2007 4:27:53 PM PDT by alisasny (RIP Lt. Kevin “Kojak” Davis BLUE ANGELS #6 THANKYOU!!)
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“But conservatives - at least social conservatives, think that David Vitter is a tarnished man who needs to be punished for breaking his marriage vow. Never mind his solid conservative record!”

“Its not like he harmed any one else except himself and his family”
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With all due respect, this how liberals reasoned when Billy Boy was caught w/ the intern. It’s a private matter, look at all the good he did, and so on.

Social Conservatives take marriage vows more seriously than the Liberals and these are the consequences when a conservative commits adultery.

We do not want to become Liberals and David Vitter is not a victim anymore than DoughBoy was when caught w/ the intern.

Of Course Liberals get a pass - THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT MARRIAGE - and the solution is not “if you can’t beat, join ‘em”.


8 posted on 07/11/2007 4:31:13 PM PDT by Vinny (What is a liberal? Someone that is a friend of every country but his own.)
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Human beings make mistakes.

A 'mistake' is an error made unintentionally.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that Vitter 'mistakenly' patronized a brothel multiple times?

This isn't a 'mistake'. This is adultery.

I guess you have figured out that the proper way to deal with some other persons double standards is to adopt a few of your own.

And I'm sure your wife will think you just made a few 'mistakes' if she ever finds out you were banging whores.

Good luck with that.

L

13 posted on 07/11/2007 4:37:28 PM PDT by Lurker (Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
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Good plan Rush, and the rest of the boys.

Let’s adopt liberals values - the heck with marriage vows or fidelity of any kind.

Good character means nothing to us.

Let’s all be libertines.


14 posted on 07/11/2007 4:37:43 PM PDT by donna (...gay couples raising kids. That's the American way... -Mitt Romney)
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“Have you noticed when Democrats have sex outside of marriage, even with interns, it’s no big deal? In fact, it’s a resume enhancement!...”

This is a tremendously important point, and while he said it in jest, among the left, it is *the* critical factor in their hierarchy. That is, what most people call “immoral” or “unethical” behavior. Education and talent don’t matter, nor does skill or experience. Perversion matters.

That is, you cannot become an important figure in the left unless you are somehow ‘soiled.’ You will not be accepted as “one of us” by them, unless in some serious way you are tainted.

The left actually does not trust *anyone* who is not corrupt! They hate and fear them.

Look at the Clinton administration. Everyone in their inner circle was morally crippled. Dick Morris, the toe sucker, for example. But one after the other, unless they were deviant, perverted, or twisted in some way, they could not be a real friend to Bill and Hillary. They would remain an outsider.

And it’s not just in politics, either. I remember the example of a nobody talking head at a local TV station, who was ignored until he was caught drinking in a motel room with two underage girls. The local station immediately fired him for breaking the law in several ways, but he was picked up in just a day or two for a job at his network on the coast. This promotion probably earned him a more than $100,000 per year raise! Suddenly he was one of their “top” people, a big name at a major TV station.

He was a nobody, until he was a pervert. Then in the left, he was somebody important, a person to be admired and respected.

So look at the rising stars among the left, who they really are and why they are rising stars. In the media and entertainment left, the people who rise to the top will have sex with anybody, and go out of their way to prove how perverse they are. It is a badge of honor with them. But it must also be seen as shameful in some way, or else it isn’t as “good”.

Actually, it is not funny, it is horrifying, how their standards are so turned around that they hate and fear those who are not perverse or corrupt. Note that they often rationalize that *everyone* is deviant, just that “moral” people hide it better. When they look at “moral” people, they think they see true evil, because they can’t see any evil.

Rush Limbaugh talks at length about how the left persistently tries to “define deviancy down”. This, too, is part of their bizarre and unwholesome philosophy: that only when we embrace all sick perversions, and they are seen as normal, will perversion cease to exist.

And only then will those on the left be able to look in the mirror and not feel deep, burning shame at their own failings.


16 posted on 07/11/2007 4:41:41 PM PDT by Popocatapetl
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Don’t forget Newsom. He was doing his best friend’s wife. Would you ever trust anyone who would prey on his best friend’s wife?That kind of guy doesn’t have friends - just marks.


17 posted on 07/11/2007 4:42:20 PM PDT by joebuck
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Can Rush name a Republican candidate from the last 30 years who hasn't campaigned on "family values"? Talk is cheap. Anyone who tries to score political points with talk of family values and can't stop himself from buying sex from whores is a hypocrite and is going to make the front page.

Nobody ever goes, "Omygawd! Barney Frank is gay?!" because Barney Frank doesn't get up in front of big groups of people and rail against the "evils of homosexuality" like Ted Haggard did. If a conservative can't practice what he preaches, what the h--- good is he?

18 posted on 07/11/2007 4:44:07 PM PDT by Mr. Know It All (Term Limits: Stop us before we vote again!)
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Neither hypocrisy nor the double standard ever bothered the left.


21 posted on 07/11/2007 4:51:17 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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As far as I can see Vitter has acted with great character regarding his past sins. I’ve yet to see a democrat do the same. I still question why this dc madam is revealing only republicans, I want the whole list published, I am sick of it being cherry picked.
22 posted on 07/11/2007 4:54:43 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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Sabrina Kay, the Mayor's Shanghai Surprise!

The jilted journalist....

The Summer of Love in Los Angeles! (Note: The City of Los Angeles has deleted all family photos off its websites)

"What am I doing? Trying to sweep it under the rugosa!"

25 posted on 07/11/2007 5:03:47 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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Rush Limbaugh is not a part of my daily life. I can go for long periods of time without listening to him, but I must say this. He probably educates more people than the entire US Department of Education, and certainly more than the NEA.


28 posted on 07/11/2007 5:22:58 PM PDT by billhilly (My former tag line.)
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It’s being reported that Larry Flynt has the names of 20 congressmen who arepatrons of Pamela Martin’s call-girl service, and he’s going to publish.
Mind you, Flynt says it’s not the sex, it’s the hypocrisy that gets under his skin. So brace yourselves for the outing of only the congressmen who ran on the family-values platform.


29 posted on 07/11/2007 5:26:58 PM PDT by soupcon
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The unspoken premise of the left is that it is better to have no standards at all than to imperfectly follow a standard. If some people cheat the leftists take it to mean that honesty is useless.


30 posted on 07/11/2007 5:32:49 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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I could care less about David Vitter. I do care about dumber than a box of hammers leftists singling him out from I don’t know how many clients of this madam. How strange that they can’t find a Democrat in the bunch. Another example of the underhandedness of the Left and Democrats (two groups who are pretty much the same).


35 posted on 07/11/2007 6:25:13 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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Rush daily insults my intelligence. He’s a paragon of moral relativism.

When you (meaning Vitter) campaign on a values platform, coauthor a federal marriage amendment banning gay marriage in the name of “protecting the sanctity of marriage,” rail against infidelity and deadbeat dads on the stump, issue press releases claiming to represent “Louisiana values, not Massachusetts values,” and then go and solicit prostitutes, you deserve to be ridiculed and derided and called out as a steaming hypocrite. I don’t care what anyone else or any other party does. It’s entirely irrelevant. How hard is it to not bang prostitutes? Seriously.

I also question this alleged double standard. Example in point: Newt’s no paragon of family values, having had an extramarital affair with a staffer, among other things. Yet he’s headlining this September’s values voters summit in Washington, put on by the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. May I ask WHY???

I do wish Rush would shut his face sometimes. He’s embarrassing.


36 posted on 07/11/2007 6:27:30 PM PDT by RedWhitetAndBlue
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Here’s another Double Standard on Morality Alert:

When Democrats commit immoral acts (or essentially any act for that matter), Rush ignites the flamethrower. When Republicans commit immoral acts, Rush points to the Dems’ alleged double standard.

It smells.


41 posted on 07/11/2007 7:17:46 PM PDT by RedWhitetAndBlue
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Does anyone remember when the Bush twins were caught drinking under age and the days of media "attention" given to them, compared to the media "attention" paid to Al Gore III?

The media is OUR enemy as much as any other group! I can't think of any other American institution I'd like to more see brought to their knees.

46 posted on 07/11/2007 7:57:43 PM PDT by Alissa
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