I've tried arguing about this with my liberal friends. Strangely enough, they're always willing to defer to a homosexual's opinion on homosexual matters - no matter how insane - until they hear an opinion they don't like.

This string of outings is easily understood, though. The greatest, most vile crime anyone can commit in the eyes of a liberal is hypocrisy. That is all. No context is sufficient to justify holding one view and then changing your mind. Note the run up to the Iraq war. We couldn't hate Saddam Hussein because "For the love of God, Rumsfeld shook hands with him decades ago! It'd be hypocritical!"

Uh huh. That was the most commonly used anti-war rationale I heard from my lefty friends at the time.

So, if you're gay and you're Republican, you are a hypocrite and deserve having your sex life "exposed" for the good of the "right-thinking homosexuals" who are "damaged" by your "extremist" and "self-loathing" politics.

And on and on and on.

This is easily remedied, however. Whenever I get an earful of this crap, I just bring up something along the lines of "Didn't you bang a evangelical a few weeks back? Then you have no right to criticize them. Thinking they're bad, evil people but good enough to get off with is the height of hypocrisy. You have no ethics and no soul!"

Over the top, yes. But when you sit there and weave their sexual history with their politics, they don't like it, and it shuts them up for awhile.

Imagine for a moment if you will, publications like American Spectator, or The Weekly Standard outing Leftwing staffers? Doesn't even have to be the gay thing. What if we just reported on their sex lives. Which staffers are promiscious? Which ones have cheated on thier spouses? Which ones rent porn? Why not? Nothing seems to be sacred to the left.

The world would end as we know it.

We would never do that, of course.

Well, hypocrisy on the left is far more rampant than on the right in my completely biased view.

They can personally make millions and give virtually nothing to charity while at the same time calling for more taxation to force the middle class to bleed.

They can ride around in jets and SUV's and yet publicly press for fuel conservation for the masses.

They can be former Klan members who most certainly took part in cross burnings, and still be respected members of congress.

They can make a ruckus about 'church and state,' while making as many campaign appearances in a church that they possibly can.

They can say 'the personal is the political' while at the same time excusing gross exploitation of a female subordinate as personal foible, outside the political sphere.

They can call the Republicans racists while at the same time having a comparatively pale profile in their own league of power brokers.

They talk about being populists, then rage about how ignorant the masses are after every electoral defeat.

They overwhelmingly control virtually every blighted urban center, yet somehow manage to blame the decline of same on republicans.

I can do this all night. Need I go on?
What do you suppose changed me from liberal to conservative?

What do I suppose changed you?

Flouridated water.. that's my guess.

Well I know with me, it was my first real paycheck.

My niece just got her first paycheck and showed me with ANGER how much the govt. took out. I said "A Republican is born!"

This is the stuff that really sets my teeth on edge - the endless double-standards.

Now that you mention it Dave in TX...it sorta did start when I was living in Hartford..... city water....hmmm

Rightwingsparkle

Ages ago, when I was underemployed at a convience store making $200.00 a week, I remember saying to other 'po folk that the government took $50.00 of that! Po and ignorant as they were, they go that one pretty quick!

RWS: sounds more like "a fiscal conservative is born". Sadly, it's pretty hard to find anybody who wants to take less of your niece's money on either side of the asile. Of course, a "Republican voter" still seems to be a bit out of phase with a "Republican politician" on this one.