Can We Say Hypocrite?

You really have to love these Politicians who campaign on ‘Family Values‘ and rail against Homosexuals, Adultery, and other that other good ‘election rhetoric‘. I mean so many seem willing to gobble it up, and it is what makes them VOTE FOR a candidate. Just look at the race in the Republican Party today for President.

You have Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee going toe to toe over who is more ‘Religious‘ than the other. Who is more of a ‘Conservative Christian‘ than anyone else. Even John McCain and Rudy Gulliani are trying to establish their credentials for being the true ‘Christian Conservative‘. Only problem is, just how many of them really mean it?

Can we say Senator Larry Craig?

Remember that Texas Prosecutor that defended Texas Sodomy Laws before the Supreme Court? The one where Police kicked in a gay couples bedroom door, then charged them?

Well seems Mister Pure & Innocent, who campaigned on being a ‘Family Values Candidate‘ (like Larry Craig, Tom Foley, and others) is not so squeaky clean. In fact, he dropped his re-election campaign because he got caught sending naughty emails with video, to his secretary.

(Houston, Texas) The district attorney who defended the Texas law criminalizing homosexuality before the US Supreme Court is desperately trying to keep his job following the discovery of e-mails containing sexually explicit videos, racist jokes and what is described as torrid love notes to his executive secretary. (source)

This is what happens when you pander to special interest groups. It is also what happens when, as voters, we place more emphasis on what a person believes in (religious wise) than on what they are willing to do. After all, it is how George W. Bush got elected, and we all know how that has worked out.