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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (565802)	4/16/2004 3:41:14 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Didn't you know? That rule is only for Repubs. Dems are exempt.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (565802)	4/16/2004 4:19:56 PM
From: blue red	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I just could not have ever imagined doing such a thing to/with the ladies that worked for me, and all these liberals just brush it off like dandruff. It was shabby behavior on Clinton's part, in fact mind-boggling considering what he had to lose. But there are several related issues on which liberals and conservatives seem to feel differently. One, I think it's true that liberals don't think sex is as sinful as RWers do, and they're less inclined to punish private bad behavior. Two, liberals are more concerned about acts of state that affect all citizens than about matters that affect only the officeholder, possibly his wife, and his mistress. (Killing 600 people in Iraq to avenge 4 deaths of Americans bothers me a lot, but not conservatives.) In general, there has been a shift in cultural ethics toward leaving victimless crimes out of the public sphere, and trusting to social opprobrium to diminish them. The exception to this trend lies among religious conservatives, who still want to punish private behavior. So it is not that liberals brush Clinton's conduct off like dandruff. They deplore it. But they have a different order of priorities on public issues, and tend not to count private sexual behavior as a public issue. I personally regret that John F. Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower would be unelectable today if their private lives were known.