Our friend Matt Margolis of Blogs For Bush explains:
Tom DeLay was on the Today Show this morning and he nailed Matt Lauer for his blatant double-standard on covering corruption. In the exchange, Tom DeLay noted, “There are scandals that need to be addressed. Republicans address them, Democrats re-elect them.”
The evidence is pretty darn clear.
Former Congressman Gerry Studds (D-MA) had sexual affair with a underage male page, and was re-elected six times until he retired.
Former Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-IL) indicted on statutory rape and child pornography charges in the summer of 1994 and was reelected that November with 90% of the vote. Bill Clinton commuted his sentence during his 11th hour pardon-spree in January 2001.
Some of you hypocritical liberals may say that those are “old stories.” So, why don’t I just mention a few Democrats who were reelected last yet despite being under a dark ethical cloud:Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) is the target of a federal investigation, was forced (by Republicans) to step down from the ethics committee last year but was reelected in November.
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) was the target of a 2-year federal bribery investigation, had $90,000 in bribe money found in his freezer, and was still reelected last November.
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) was involved in the ABSCAM scandal, also apparently steered millions in federal funding to companies that were clients of his brother’s lobbying firm. He was also reelected in November.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) found guilty in civil court of leaking an illegally recorded phone conversation to the media in March 2006. He too, was reelected last November.
Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), linked to countless scandals, was reelected last November.
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) linked to countless scandals, was reelected last November.
Delay’s right and so is Matt. Republicans call for the ouster of any of their corrupt members. Dems promote em right to the top.
Shame on your Matt for not mentioning our drunken Senator Kennedy who was elected with 70% of the vote only months after murdering his secretary in the Nantucket Sound.
And of course Matt leaves out the most corrupt one of them all “Sir Edmund” Hillary Clinton and her husband Bubba who are at the top of the Democrat presidential polls currently. (In second place incidentally, is the guy who thinks we should engage throat cutting anti-Semitic Jihadist “leaders” around the world in “diplomacy.” And the guy in third doesn’t believe we are actually at “war”- referring to it as a “bumper sticker.”) and both have some pretty significant integrity issues.
Since Democrats have lost the intellectual debate in America, their strategy isn’t to have an honest debate about America’s most pressing concerns- the vast majority of which were created by Dems (Social Security, Govt Run Education, Govt healthcare programs, etc…) That’s why they refuse to go on Fox and debate and field any challenging questions. They can’t. They are all for “debate” unless they actually have to- well- uh- debate. Their idea of a “debate” is to go on Hardball or Keith Oberman.
No their strategy is to do to Repubicans what they think they were successful in doing in 06′ which is to accuse Republicans of being “corrupt” and “hypocritical” etc (remember Mark Foley) to suppress values voters support on election day. That is why you are hearing nothing on CBS Evening News about the many successes in Iraq and are instead deluged nightly with reports from the salivating Katie Couric regarding whether the Craig Scandal will hurt Republicans with “values voters” in 08′. These people are so transparent- like used car salesmen. No wonder they can’t win a national election.
They know that they can not beat Republicans in a national election if Republican’s core constituency (Evangelical Christians- otherwise known euphemistically as “values voters”) come out by the millions flocking to the polls in droves. So Hillary and Barak who support partial birth abortion are running around the country pretending to be devout Christians talking about how vital their “faith” is to them etc..and will now talk about how Republicans are all corrupt hypocrites who don’t really represent their values etc… That’s the Dem’s plan-plain and simple.
The only way Dems have been able to win a majority of the vote which they have not been able to do since Jimmy Carter is through deception- disguising their values and beliefs and conning Americans into believing that they aren’t socialists-which of course they are. The only guy with guts enough to call himself one is Bernie Sanders. The rest of them share his fundamental ideology and vote just like he does- but are just too gutless to be honest about what specfic political philosophy to which they subscribe.
And you know if it were a Democrat Senator who was supposedly “gay” who approached another man in a bathroom, you better believe Dems would be defending him to the hilt and accusing any Republican who was critical of him in any way of being an intolerant Christian Conservative homophobe. Bet on it. What blatant hypocrites these treacherous Democrats are.
These pro abortion, pro same sex marriage, pro gun control, pro illegal immigration, pro open borders, pro socialist healthcare, anti school choice, pro-(socialist) Social Security, anti-military, anti-American, pro big government pork/tax and spend Socialist Democrats will be trying to convince Americans that they represent “average working Americans” and the “poor and downtrodden,” “Americans of faith” etc…and they will win unless Republicans run a presidential candidate who is an across the board Reagan style Conservative who actually does represent the core values and beliefs of mainstream Americans. But that is another post for another time.