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Originally Posted by scaeagles
I do see a bit of hypocrisy on the left, though. Let's talk about the Clinton example -
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[I was no fan of Clinton. It's what made me bounce to voting for Bush in 2000.]
I think the point here is that the Republicans (or for my purpose here, "social conservatives") and Democrats ("social liberals") use two different measuring sticks for hypocrisy.
For social conservatives, it's hypocritical if a politician publicly denounces homosexuality but is found to be a closet gay. Or they have anonymous gay sex in airport bathroom stalls. Hypocrisy is when you are a huge Bible-thumping born-again Christian who espouses the importance of motherhood and abstinence... but who leaves nannies to tend to their six-month-old special needs baby with Down Syndrome or who ignores her own house and pays too little attention to a daughter who then goes on and gets pregnant while still in high school.
That's hypocrisy for social conservatives. Not living what you preach to others.
For Democrats, hypocrisy would be telling everyone they have to conserve natural resources... and then find out that the politician had a whole mountainside of pristine old growth oak cut down so he could get a new wooden house built. Or quietly supporting the tear-down of a homeless shelter so that he could help his friend build a high-class restaurant on the location.
The hypocrisy would not be on social things, but on things the liberals stand for. Protecting the environment, protecting natural resources, etc.