There has been some discussion lately about the appropriateness of judging a politician by his "private" life. (Which, of course, means his SEX life.) The Spitzer/Paterson scandals have brought on this most recent round of debates.My position, in general, is that somebody who cheats on his wife, will cheat me. He's a cheater. It's what he does. If he will break the most sacred vow of his "personal" life for selfish, instant gratification of his appetites, I have trouble considering him a trustworthy man. And in my experience, people who are untrustworthy in one facet of their lives, are likely to be equally untrustworthy in others.
I could not be close friends with a woman who regularly cheated on her husband. (And I certainly wouldn't want her within striking distance of MY husband—if I had one.)
Some people don't agree. But there are some who do.
Sidney Raphael at American Thinker is one of them.
What I find most interesting in his essay, are his reasons why Europeans are so casual and accepting of their leaders being slimy horndogs: They still think like subjects instead of free men. They think of their leaders as they once thought of their autocratic, all-powerful Kings —as an altogether different class of people than themselves...for whom normal morality and decent behavior don't apply.
Americans don't have a history of Kings and Queens acting like libertines and whores. We're entirely too free and equal. We consider our leaders men & women just like ourselves, and we expect from them the same moral behavior we accept as the standard for ourselves. We're American Prudes.
And I'm OK with that.
The Gunslinger
Those who excuse such behavior are into the "compartmentalization" game-just another term for "Shut up,and do what I say is good for you".Of course the so-called "intellectual elites" love this stuff,it allows them to play footsie with murderers,as long as they beleve it will not touch them.I must admit,in my darker moments,I almost wish terrorists would interrupt Pelosi or whichever twit with an attack where they are,just to hear them say "But I'm sympathetic to you!"Kinda like the Preacher in Westerns saying "I'll go talk to the Apaches,they will know I mean them no harm",and he gets sent back with 20 arrows in his body."Apache" is French for "street thug",basically,by the way-name came about from that group of "noble Native Americans" stealing from other Native Americans.
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad. I've often had the same fantasy about the pretentious prigs who look down their noses at anyone who understands the occasional necessity of violence and war.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I have often fantasized this scenario: A stupid hippie says that "violence never solves anything". Then I hit him in the mouth. He's shocked and outraged. And I hit him again. And I keep hitting him until gets either frightened enough or mad enough to hit back...and I stop hitting him.
And then I say, "See, violence DOES solve some things. It just solved the problem of your getting your face bashed in."
I swear, if I thought I wouldn't get arrested for battery, I'd do it. It demonstrates the point to perfection.
What's with these people in New York, New Jersey, the New England states, Detroit? It seems to be confession a day with them . . . and, even though the press rarely mentions it, they're all Democrats, who, unlike Republicans have no shame -- at least not enough to resign and quietly go away. Now New York's new governor, having gotten past admitting that he is an adulterer, is owning up to cocaine use. What's next? Will one of them 'fess up to having been the real kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby or to having done away with Judge Crater?
ReplyDeleteDemocrats! I didn't know THAT! Why, the news reports never mentioned it!!
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