Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:03:38 PM
It is better to do two things wrong, or one thing? One thing, right? Well the Left doesn’t think so. You see, the Left thinks it is okay for a politician to have an extra-marital affair (one wrong) if the politician failed to publicly encourage morality (another wrong) before that affair.
For the Left, perceived hypocrisy is worse that marital infidelity. So look for the Left, especially Democrats, to condemn Sanford not for the affair, but for being a Republican who somehow promoted in the past the idea that it is good to behave in a morally upstanding manner.
I do condemn sex with someone other than your spouse as morally wrong, so I don't excuse Sanford. I also know that we do not know the inner working of his marriage.