[jpl]

I don't know why conservatism should be linked to that guy, I think he is much better described as being a criminal.

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.

[lakey]

.... 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!

[wideawake]

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.

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.