Changing the Rules in Mid Game

I love how Republicans can't help but talk about Sanford's fall from grace without eluding to the notion that Democrats do it too. I don't know of anyone who has said Democrats are perfect moral humans. And that's the point. We don't run our campaigns and entirely build our base around moral values voters and Christian crusaders. Partly because we aren't naive enough to think there is actually a perfect person among us, no not even Barack Obama. Not everyone has the same definition of moral values and it's never right to impose your supposed values on someone else. We all fall short of the Glory of God. It's best to keep it that way and quit pretending that a political party is actually God's right hand. None of us are, and there are actually lots of people who don't even believe in God so quit with the onward Christian Soldier holy talk and focus on yourselves for a little while and this country will be a better place.

Aside from all that, Republicans also want to be able to separate Sanford's dishonesty from his political stand against President Obama and stimulus spending. For decades all we've heard from Republicans is how Democrats have no morals or values and can't be trusted on any political position. Once you were labeled as having no morals, it didn't matter how you viewed any issue you were politically bereft and separating the issues was never allowed. I have a mind like a steel trap and I'm not going to forget any of it. And like I said on Organized Chaos, we cannot separate-- especially not now given how he presented himself publicly up until today-- Sanford’s lifestyle from his genuineness in governance. It's better just to admit it and move on than to even try to pretend that we can now all of a sudden separate morality from honesty.