What's your favorite right-wing hypocrisy?

[onebigbadwulf]

Here are a few of mine...


Repugs hounded Bill Clinton for being a draft dodger but went silent with the fact that Bush went AWOL

Repugs hounded Hilary Clinton for moving to New York to be a senator but went silent with the fact that G Bush wasn't from Texas or J Bush wasn't from Florida.

Repugs hounded Bill Clinton for semi-smoking weed but said Bushies alcohol/cocaine days were behind him.

[La_Serpiente]

1. Gosh, there are so many

homosexuals are a threat to traditional marriage when they cannot even practice traditional marriage themselves (Bob Barr, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, etc.)

Democrats are the party of big government when they are the ones spending up the yin yang.

I am sure there are more, but these are the ones that I thought of.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. That they call themselves patriots and then they break

every U.S. constitutional law in order to get their way.

[Nite Owl]

3. There are so many

but calling themselves the party of 'family values' is the one that gets to me the most. They are so anti-family by forcing parents to work longer hours (now without overtime), campaigning against universal health care, sending our children to war. One policy after another is against the family for these guys.

[Deja Q]

16. Welcome to DU!!

And those are great points you mentioned.

I wish the people who vote repuke would see what's going on. :-(

[ugarte]

4. Anti-birth control and anti-abortion

Talk about a paradox. They cut money for family planning programs...so don't use birth control, get pregnant, but abortions are out, so just have the kid. Then to top off the hypocrisy, they're anti-kids programs.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. No, what they really want is for

people not to have sex.

[onebigbadwulf]

5. Oh thought of another

pro-job exportation but anti-wellfare.

What are we just supposed to die in the street?

[Wickerman]

6. No, you may not die on the street - that would be loitering

from the GOP dept of damned if you do, damned if you don't, catch 22, hypocrisy division.

[blackcat77]

7. That poor people must be removed from welfare....

...so they can give tax breaks and govt giveaways to the rich.

[MrBenchley]

8. The impeachment, hands down...

To have a bunch of Republicans with sex scandals of their own impeach a president over a hum job...the evidence for which had been gathered through an illegal phone tap, and which was not a crime.

Newt said the Republicans would pick up 30 or 40 seats in the midterm elections and that they were a "referendum on impeachment"...he ended up losing seats (Clinton was the first sitting president to pick up seats in his midterm in almost 100 years)...

So they went ahead and impeached Clinton over the humjob anyway...but Newt had to resign when it came out that his marriage was breaking up because he was getting humjobs from a girl in HIS capitol office...

So Newt was replaced by Bob Livingston, who had to resign almost immediately when it turned out he spent his leisure hours getting beaten by a dominatrix....

So Livingston was replaced by Dennis Hastert, a completely empty suit most Americans had never heard of....

The Judiciary Committee refused to have hearings, refused to call witnesses on the charges against Clinton, and demanded an immediate vote, which their lame duck majority rammed through.

Clinton was impeached on three counts, all voted along party lines...they were tampering with a witness, obstructing justice and lying to the grand jury. The fourth count, having to do with the bogus Paula Jones trial (which had fallen apart when Paula's testimony contradicted the actual stated grounds for the suit) was voted down. The only witnesses ever called by the House majority were a number of people who had been convicted of perjury for lying about sex...and the televised hearing where they testified about their cases left pretty much everyone in the country convinced that those folks had gotten railroaded and had gotten a raw deal.

The House managers who prosecuted the trial all turned out to have sex scandals of their own. During the Senate trial, the evidence for tampering with a witness turned out to be that Clinton had spoken to Betty Currie...who was not a witness. The evidence that there had been obstruction of justice turned out to be that Monica had been given a Annie Lennox CD and a box of candy. And the evidence that Clinton lied to a grand jury....well, that never did turn up at all.

The GOP still tried to drag in the Paula Jones case anyway...one numbnutz actually compared the bogus lawsuit to the civil rights struggle out loud, during Black History Month, no less. After they closed their case and it was obviously a shambles, they began to demand to call MORE witnesses. And who will ever forget this wonderful exchange on National TV:
Republican Pinhead: "Monica, why didn't you tell anybody"
Monica: "Because it was nobody's business."

At the end, Trent Lott announced he wanted to introduce "secret evidence" that the Senate would consider behind closed doors but that the Clinton legal team would not be able to see or respond to.

And then after all that fuss and all those claims that it was the most serious crime in presidential history, the GOP refused to censure Clinton in a fit of childish pique.

[IggleDoer]

17. Sometime ask a Repubican ...

... what would it take to impeach a prez? Lying to get us into war? Whenever I ask that, most repubs cannot come up with an answer except "Lying about sex under oath." Then they turn remarkably silent, realizing the stupidity of their answer.

[populistmom]

9. So many of them claiming to have Christian values

The whole right wing religious wackos who claim the Republican party is the party of morality when the have no concept of what Christ actually taught. Teachings of Christ includes such "liberal" notions as loving your neighbor as yourself, helping your enemies, forgiveness, and giving up your own material possesions to help others. The Republican party to me is the antithesis of Christian principles in my opinion. Not that one has to be Christian to be moral or good by any means. I just think it's an oxymoron to call onesself a Christian and a Republican at the same time.

[Solly Mack]

10. Aren't rightwingers hypocrisy personified?

walking talking breathing bundles of hypocrisy...how can you expect me to pick any one particular aspect of what is their total character?

This is a trick question, right?

[CanuckAmok]

11. Hmmm...how about attacking the "Hollywood Bunch" for being detached, while

taking orders from celebrities like Heston, CHarlie Daniels, Ted Nugent, and about a thousand other multimillionaires who "know how real 'Muricans feel"?

[BringEmOn]

12. Pro Life

but support wars of aggression, death penalty, guns, and right wing dictatorships, and oppose social, health, and environmental programs which help prevent death. The right to life ends at birth for the rest of us.

Clinton's extracurricular activities were equated to high crimes and misdemeanors, yet ignored Newt, Henry Hyde, Bob Livingston, et al.

Hounded Gary Condit mercilessly, yet never said a word about Joe Scarborough.

...too many more to mention.

[scottcsmith]

13. Three things:

1) They hounded Clinton for being a liar, yet right-wingers like Sean Hannity consider convicted liar Oliver North, who not only lied to Congress but also destroyed evidence, a hero. North's lies seem much worse to me than Clinton's lies about sex.

2) Right-wingers preach family values, yet many of them have had several wives, committed adultery, and engaged in the same sexual behavior as Bill Clinton. One example is Newt Gingrich, who has cheated on at least two of his wives.

3) Republicans say they support a smaller federal government, and for the government to not trample of state's rights, yet they do not mind if the feds try to overturn state laws such as medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide. In Oregon, we passed a physician-assisted suicide bill twice, but John Ashcroft's Justice Department has threatened to go after doctors who would prescribe the drugs.

And of course the "smaller government" Conservatives fully supported the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, a huge federal bureaucracy.

[Liberator_Rev]

14. I've got a web page devoted to that very topic:

I can't decide which is worst, so I honor a whole raft of hypocrites of the Religious Right at

http://www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/BlindLeaders


See why Christians who are serious about following Christ
ought to be Liberal Democrats.