South Carolinas special congressional election didnt give us the choice between an angel and demon or even an angel and sinner. Rather on one side we had a man who was unfaithful to his wife a red flag telling us to watch him even more closely.
With the victory of disgraced former governor Mark Sanford in the recent South Carolina congressional race there are bound to be those who would equate his supporters with Bill Clintons. After all both men were unfaithful to their wives. Both men lied to their constituents about it. And both men had supporters who voted party over principle didnt they? Not exactly.
For sure there are Republicans imbued with the libertine spirit of the age who often sexually compromised themselves can easily justify Sanfords behavior. There are Republicans who buy into the tripe that a politicians personal life" should have no bearing on his fitness for office as if the personal doesnt influence the public. There are even more Republicans who rationalize their vote by saying that Sanford has confessed his sin and must be forgiven ignoring that we dont know if he truly is a changed man and that forgiveness doesnt obviate worldly consequences. Yet there are many other GOP voters and they may be in the majority who take another position. And its one that well illustrates a profound difference between liberals and conservatives.
I supported Mark Sanford against his opponent Elizabeth Colbert Busch with no regrets or apologies. Why? Well I think I speak for millions of conservatives when I say that what cost Sanford his governorship was absolutely wrong and not to be excused under any circumstances. I would prefer that candidates such as him get primaried out of the equation but this didnt happen perhaps because SC has open primaries (how many Democrats voted for Sanford in the primary to give Busch a vulnerable opponent?). And while what he did was a sin there are other kinds of sins as well.
One of them is advocating nation and culture-killing leftist policy.
SCs special congressional election didnt give us the choice between an angel and demon or even an angel and sinner. Rather on one side we had a man who was unfaithful to his wife a red flag telling us to watch him even more closely. On the other we had a woman who is unfaithful to Truth and everything good and great for which America stands a redder flag telling us she should be dismissed promptly. For people such as Busch are ensuring that America wont stand for long.
But Bill Clintons voters were generally different. Far from hating the sin and supporting the sinner too frequently these ideologists became apologists and promoted the sinner by rubber stamping the sin. How often did we have to hear nauseating refrains such as Its only sex" or Who cares if he got a _______ in the Oval Office?"? Why one liberal man even said to me quite passionately about Slick Willies affair with Monica Lewinsky He did the right thing" (hey who wouldnt abuse his position and debauch a young intern if given the chance?). And then of course there was the truly idiotic rationalization Character doesnt matter" which of course may seem an attractive philosophy when you havent got any.
Then there is the Sandra Fluke factor. Where is the conservative equivalent of Nina Burleigh who in 1998 said about Clinton I would be happy to give him a _______ just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs"? While liberal women certainly dont like being the betrayed wife a noticeable number of them seemed to like the idea of being the Slicksters other woman. And then they get upset when the Rush Limbaughs of the world call them sluts.
The bottom line is that Bill Clintons supporters were willing to define deviancy downwards just to lift a reprobate upwards as they moved their nation closer to permanent moral defeat in the name of temporary political victory.
Of course a major reason why this didnt bother them brings us to another difference between liberals and conservatives: liberals dislike the morals that condemn things such as adultery in the first place. Thus while we may view their actions as the sacrifice" of virtue on the altar of political success to them it was something quite different: the killing of two Bald Eagles with one stone.