Most liberals in this country are intellectually dishonest which is why they don't have the slightest qualms about grotesque double standards. That's why Al Gore can live in a mansion that consumes energy like a football stadium while he tells you to cut back. It's why Sarah Palin can be sliced apart for things said by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live while Joe Biden is treated seriously despite being the biggest doofus ever to occupy the Vice-Presidency. It's also why Barack Obama gets a free pass for many of the same things that George Bush was criticized for doing. Here are just a few of the criticisms aimed at George Bush that could be better applied to Barack Obama.Then it gets better. Go take a look. Mr. Hawkins is on fire today.
But this double standard issue gets very annoying at times, and a lot of the Dems in Congress seem to get away with it. Dems were quick to remind everybody that Sotomayor should be treated with kid gloves, lest Republicans lose the Hispanic vote. (Frankly with all the pandering that Bush and McCain did to the La Raza crowd, if they didn't get their vote, nobody with an R after his name was ever going to get it.) Of course, the Repubs were never going to treat Sotomayor like Dems treated Robert Bork, or Clarence Thomas, or Sam Alito, or Chief Justice Roberts, or...well...anyone the Repubs have nominated since Bork. That was just projection. The Dems feared that their version of the golden rule might finally be working in the halls of Congress.
I have never been sure that Robert Bork was all that conservative, but I do believe the man would have reined in some of the legislating from the bench that has happened in the years since his nomination. Interestingly, the name "Bork" has become a verb, "to bork" meaning to lie and mistreat someone who eminently deserves better because you disagree with them.
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