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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-22-07 06:33 PM
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Now I have read all the lame justifications
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/03/21/gop_family_values/

Second, public behavior counts for more than private behavior. Voters should give greater weight to what a politician says and does in public than to his private words and deeds. What matters most is whether he upholds appropriate values -- not whether he falls short of those values in private. Civilized society does not require human perfection and consistency. It does require that imperfect human beings, whatever their private failings, affirm the distinction between right and wrong, and maintain a social architecture of shared moral standards.

A man who publicly castigates an adulterous president while secretly carrying on an affair of his own -- as Gingrich did in 1998 -- may be a hypocrite, but he has not undermined the public code that condemns adultery and celebrates marital faithfulness. By contrast, a man who flaunts his infidelity and goes out of his way to publicly humiliate his wife -- as Giuliani did in 2000 -- has behaved far more destructively. He has not just violated society's moral guidelines: He has subverted them.

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Give me an ever loving break. Whom do these people think they are? Surely they jest. How much more undermining of fidelity can a person be than being thrice married and surving divorce papers upon a cancer stricken spouse? Newt is literally the personification of infidelity. He was unfaithful to his wife and to us. He is literally shameless.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-22-07 07:29 PM
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1. Go ahead Newty
When you start pissing in the Kool Aid, even the dumbest sheep start to notice the taste. Glad you ran that turd up the flagpole though, shows what an ignorant douche you really are.
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Kelly Rupert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-22-07 07:33 PM
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2. So now we've officially moved into the territory of
"Do as he says, not as he does." Second-ordered hypocrisy touted as virtue. Lovely.
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