That's not because Republicans don't fight hard enough (although it's true they don't) but because Democrats have no rule of law and are totally shameless.
Bob Livingston resigned rather than judge Clinton when he knew of his own adultery. I could never imagine a Democrat taking that step unless he was up for election and the polls showed he couldn't win. But it's not the sin that shames them, rather the political expediency of not advancing their goal.
Any form of hypocrisy is perfectly allowable if you are a Democrat because the advancement of the ideology is more important than any type of personal consistency.
The Clinton impeachment taught us a lot about Democrats' true principles:
* It's okay to lie under oath if you don't like the charges.
* It's okay to lie under oath if you don't like who's prosecuting you.
* Defending oneself about lying under oath is "saving the Constitution".
* Sexual harassment is not relevant when the powerful "boss" happens to be a Democrat.
* Ideology trumps any type of misconduct up to and including murder (Condit).
* Ideology trumps any type of minority representation (Clarence Thomas and many others).
Any moral "high road" the liberals might have carried before (and it was quite strong in the wake of the racial and sexual re-order that began in the 1960s) was decimated by the Clinton gang. That capital was spent. No longer can the feminists claim the high road after defending Clinton. And the race baiters are close to being in the same boat after the scandals involving Jackson, Sharpton and Mel Reynolds among others. Suddenly the more-correct-than-thou crowd was out there supporting perjury. Then came 2000 and they were out there defending vote fraud.
That's not to imply that Republicans have clean hands in all of this but the oh-so-serious, oh-so-pious, oh-so-concerned Democrats had their act exposed by their own Elmer Gantry and I believe that is no small reason for why their party is in such disarray now.
I couldn't agree more.
Despite the excesses of the feminist movement, one of its founders, Gloria Steinem, was almost always level-headed and reasonable, at least in her days of highest prominence.
So it was a major shock when she wrote her "one free grope rule" editorial in the middle of the Clinton scandal, explaining that if a boss grabbed an employees breast or dropped his pants and told her to "kiss it", it wasn't worth making a fuss over as long as he accepted "no thanks" as a response...
Truly astounding.
If I ever meet Ms. Steinem, I think I'll grab her breast as my way of saying "hello" -- and then ask her to sign a copy of her essay.
(Speaking of which, does anyone have a copy? I read it in the newspaper when it originally appeared, but haven't found an electronic copy to save in my archives. Maybe the feminists have hunted down all copies and destroyed them. :-) Similarly, I can no longer find any reference to the following quote, which I copied verbatim from an online CNN story the day it was made: "I have to confess it has crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian." -- Hillary Clinton, February 6, 1997. And yes, it was the generic "you", she was not addressing a particular person.)
Not only have they no shame but they can recognize behavior that Should cause shame when committed by a conservative.
Any form of hypocrisy is perfectly allowable if you are a Democrat because the advancement of the ideology is more important than any type of personal consistency.
We understand this much better than we did ten years ago. And yet we still CANNOT over/underestimate how low they can go. We must be alert to all dirty tricks.
Remember the Wellstone Memorial, and trading Torricelli in for Lautenberg?
They have no shame, but a lot of the electorate are turned away by their behavior, which is good news for us and the country.