The faux uproar amongst the right concerning Hilary Rosen's comments regarding Ann Romney is quite comical.
I mean, the party that is launching a verbal and politically silencing attack on women, sticking up for mothers? It's hilarious really. I thought mothers only mattered when they were pregnant.
But while Rosen's comments will eventually fade away and are just another example of phony outrage; a bigger question remains.
Why does the GOP mostly get a pass for blatant hypocrisy?
I will not be one to say that Democrats are always the victim. That would be preposterous as there have been some idiotic people who have represented the donkeys.
I will not say that the GOP is always in the wrong either. There have been some times that a GOP official has resigned in disgust and distress with a public opinion rivaling Snooki.
However most scandals that affect Democrats usually involve immediate resignation and public shame. Sure, people like Larry Craig and John Ensign become a punch line to a bad joke, but they got the chance to "retire" on their own terms. Anthony Weiner & Elliot Spitzer get to be successfully pressured into "resigning".
Yet David Vitter is still happily a part of the machine that is attempting to launch America into a turn-of-the-century conservative metropolis where only white men have any political power whatsoever.
Why does this happen? If we have a "liberal media", shouldn't progressives such as us expect the right to be pressured into resigning as opposed to denying themselves into a "graceful" retirement?
The perception from the right is that the "bleeding heart" liberals represent those people who care too much about people who aren't them. They believe that compassion is something that shouldn't exist in business or politics and that everyone should fend for themselves.
Oh, you are unemployed? "That is very unfortunate, get a new job and support yourself" is the right-wing version of "hello".
They know they can bash the non-ultra rich or non-male or non-Christian voting bloc because they aren't them. They know they'll never vote for them so why put on false pretenses? For all they care, those people are the "liberals problem, not mine".
Disgusting isn't it? Yet that is the mindset they chose to possess. The underfunded, unemployed, overwhelmed are people who aren't worthy of political or social gain. They are simply there to remind us of the joys of capitalism, correct?
Contrary to my belief, the GOP isn't lacking intelligence even though some of their members appear to be intellectually impaired. They do know that a large segment of voters, shockingly 99% of them, aren't rich. Therefore, you throw out words like "socialism" and "gotcha journalism" to appease the uneducated. You attend church to appeal to what the everyday person believes makes you elite.
The GOP is expected to be either the "religious right" or the "protectors of business", it's the creed they have happily adopted. So, even if they are a "family values" candidate, they can just chalk it up to a "moment they strayed away from God" and re-ignite the passions of the base they so desperately loved.
But the Democrats are to be seen as above "petty" attacks. I personally think the GOP has tried to frame progressives as "bleeding hearts" who are truly hypocrites at their core being. In their world, which is full of car elevators and stairways to heavens, no one cares about the poor; so why should we? It's simply a defect on their behalf.
So when a scandal emerges from the woodwork of Progressiveville, it must show that they are indeed hypocrites. People get enraged by perceived injustice and hypocrisy is up there. But in Conservativeutopia, you can be a hypocrite as long as you have a way to redeem yourself later on. This is the party that believes homosexuality can be cured, so why can't they be the party that believes that only certain people are created equally better than everybody else?
That's what gets to me. I can eat a hamburger after my practice and be framed as a hypocrite because I also lecture those who don't treat animals right. I am a liberal after all, so that must mean I'm a closeted conservative who just hasn't seen Reagan yet. I can believe in global warming but mustn't be a true bleeding heart if I print out a lot of paper.
Meanwhile, what can you say to the other side?
Nothing. After all, even though we believe in the funding of Planned Parenthood, equal pay, empowerment & non-discrimination; we must be hypocrites because we don't believe being a "Mom" counts as a true job.