Ya Gotta Luv It
By Maui Curmudgeon

I have long said that the United States has two political parties, the Democrats and the Hypocrits. The legion of evidence for the conservative hypocrisy is startling and pathetic. Recent events have just tickled me.

The party of “family values”, of “ethics”, and rabid attacks on Bill Clinton when he had his fling with Monica Lewinsky – the Republican party (I have to wash my keyboard whenever I type those disgusting words) – is being bludgeoned by hypocrisy this week.

First, Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign has admitted having an affair with a woman who works for him! How sleazy and hypocritical is that? It is reported that he resigned from the Republican Policy Committee and was “warmly received” during his mea culpa. He was considered a rising star of the party, until now.

Someone needs to listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, so they can hear if they excoriate this senator as much as they did Senator John Edwards when his affair came out. Hypocrits unite! Of course, they won’t.

Now, we have an even better story. South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Stanford, the “principled” governor who fought to not take the federal bailout, who just the other day told Sean Hannity that no matter what, he wasn’t going to “give up his values”, that governor has not only been having an affair for the past year with a woman in Argentina, but he has used state funds to fly himself to Rio de Janeiro to visit his mistress. I mean, you can’t make this stuff up!

There has to be an investigation and possible criminal charges brought against him for use of those funds. I doubt he’ll do time. The thing about republicans is their hypocrisy oozes slime, which makes them too greasy to catch.

Still, it’s fun isn’t it?