Watergate

Another reason why I could never be a Democrat.  Not that Watergate was an ok thing, but the hypocrisy of the Democrats in not maintaining the same standards for themselves as they demand for others.  When Clinton committed perjury, he stayed.  When Nixon committed a lesser violation, he had to go.  It's the double standard and the hypocrisy that turned me against them.

The thing that galls me the most is that I believed them back then.  I never believe in them, I just believed them for the most part.  It has happened over a large number of issues-- they simply are able to fool people.  And I was one of them.  I think that they are able to do this because of the bad faith of the media.  It is indeed bad faith because it goes well beyond mere bias.  They are actively trying to fool people.  They work hand in glove with the Democrats.  There may be a million rationalizations for what they are doing, so they don't see themselves as evil.  But it is evil.

I haven't had a similar experience with the Republicans.  Yes, they can disappoint.  But the Democrats are on a completely different level.

Update:

Speaking of the devil, Ann Barnhardt has something on the subject at her blog.  She says that people want to be lied to.

It will take great moral courage to change things.  Yes indeed.  You see, the greatest problem with the Republicans is their cowardice.  Cowardice is a moral failing.  That's what plagues the Republicans.  And it is evil too.  Is it the worse evil?

That's a matter of opinion.  The thing that makes the wolf a wolf and the lamb a lamb is that the wolf is bigger than the lamb.  The lamb can't win that battle.  The only chance the lamb has is in numbers.  An entire herd of lambs can overwhelm any single wolf.  But the lambs aren't organized.  They don't tend to organize.  They probably don't want to organize.  So, they hope that the wolf eats some other lamb besides themselves.

That's the way it goes.

Update:

I have read and re-read Barnhardt's latest piece.  She asks for a plan in deal with a list of seven problems.  You know what?  There may not be any plan, and if there were, it would certainly fail.  Perhaps that's the point.

The overall plan is to do the best you can with what you've got.  Even if all you got is your cojones.

What she says sounds like giving up.  That's even worse than no plan at all.