The Worst Incident

I saw on a post today someone who was criticizing the recent winner of the Mass Sen election, Scott Brown. Apparently she didn't like that he was a Republican, "of moral superiority," obviously said snidely, yet had posed for Cosmo. I don't know a lot about Brown. I know he posed, but from reports, he wasn't au natural. And, he was 22-years old. What 22-year old doesn't have something stupid he did????

A comment to this post mentioned something like, "Imagine if Hillary had...." First, there is/was no chance of any such posing. Let's get that out of the way. Surely, these folks aren't holding Hillary Clinton up as any sort, any sort, of paragon of virtue? Let's just start and end with "Vince Foster." Enough said....

And I wonder if their "indignation" rises, too, for John Edwards. Can you spell "scumbag?" Of course, too, there's Teddy Kennedy. Hmm, I wonder if what happened at Chappaquiddick is as bad as posing for Cosmo? Maybe, a little worse? Well, what about Edwards' behavior--wife, family, etc.? Hmmmm...maybe a toss-up?

This isn't to take sides necessarily, nor even to justify what Brown did. It may have been perfectly all right or might have been scurrilous. It is the blatant hypocrisy evident on both sides, the so-called "liberals" and "conservatives." They both have lost their moral compasses. As if to underscore this, one who decried the recent Supreme Court ruling on McCain-Feingold, had an "Obama" bumper sticker on her car, one that was put out by MoveOn.Org. I wonder if it is OK for George Soros' group to spend lots of money, protected by free speech, but that same money spent by corporations is evil....

Hypocrisy lets us have it both ways, I guess.