The Hypocrisy Goes On...and On...and On...and On...

So just 3 or 4 weeks ago we had the Republican senator from Nevada, John Ensign, getting caught with his family values pants down. And this week we have the Republican governor of South Carolina, who not only disappeared and lied about where he was, on his earlier trip to Argentina for the ongoing tryst, he violated U.S. government policy by meeting with the head honcho of Argentina.

So, all within the same time period, two fundamentalist Christian Republicans self-destructed.

But, as you would expect from the party that has brought hypocrisy to lofty heights never before attained even by Richard Nixon, they're working on forgiving these two lying cheats. That's right--in the case of the Nevada senator, the Republican lawmakers applauded when he confessed his sins and said he was sorry. And in South Carolina, lots of the fundamentalists are already talking about forgiveness there.

With Christian fundamentalists, and today's Neocon Republicans, it's not what you do that matters, only what you say. You can even commit murder, then become a "born again" Christian and guess what--you will go to heaven, not hell. Cool. What an out. The very first fundamentalist must have been a lawyer.

These people disgust me. Not because they sometimes think with their balls instead of their brains--hell, they're men. Men want sex. Men need sex. They do what they can to get it. Most men, however, are not lying cheats, having affairs while telling their wives they are on hiking trips. ("Brokeback Mountain," anyone?)

No, they disgust me because of their hypocrisy. If a senator or congressman has an affair, I could not care less...provided he doesn't make his mark bashing others who do the same thing, blathering about god and country and faith and family, and bashing gays and hookers and the French. If you're a Republican and you voted for Clinton's impeachment for getting lewinskied while you're doing the same thing yourself, then you deserve the same fate. If you kiss up to the right wing lunatics in the Republican party by promoting hatred of gays, when you hang out in airport men's rooms looking for a quickie, then you too deserve what you get.

It's not the sex--it's the hypocrisy. If a normal person cheats and gets caught, well that's a problem between the cheater and spouse and I don't care if I ever hear about it. In fact, it shouldn't be anybody's business outside the guy's own family. It shouldn't even be news because it's just trash news anyway. But if the guy is one of those disgusting holier-than-thou "family values" bastards, then he should be hung out to dry. Any Republican who says these creeps should be forgiven, that it's not a big deal, that people make mistakes, blahblahblah--they have zero credibility. Remember how they acted about Sarah Palin's teenage daughter's unwed pregnancy? "Oh, well, teenagers, you know, they make mistakes, I"m sure she'll be a fine mother...blahblahblah..."

Can you imagine their feigned limbaughesque outrage had a Democrat's teenage daughter got pregnant?

When will Americans get sick of all this hypocrisy? Probably never, not as long as we've got Fox "News" and not as long as almost 1/3 of them think they're hearing news when they listen to talk radio or watch the talking heads on TV. I'm not kidding--almost 1/3 of Americans say they think those venues are news. That statistic is in a new documentary called "Broadcast Blues." More about that later.