"High-Pock-Ruh-Cee"

God bless the little media. Yeah, Green Bay has an NFL team, but it's not a huge media center. Nonetheless, Curt Andersen of the News-Chronicle gives GREAT column today about the #1 conservative value of flaming hypocrisy.

Cheney finds foul language irresistible

I don't know how Conservatives do it. Can you spell high-pock-ruh-cee? I am regularly stunned by the frequency of the use of a double standard by Conservatives, but even more so, at their ability to pretend they're not doing it.

The latest issue that brings this to mind is the use of some serious Anglo-Saxon phrasing by Dick Cheney, while cursing Senator Leahy. In general, the Senator was told to have sex with himself. Later, Cheney commented that it needed to be said and that it felt good to say it. How odd that we now have the Conservative VP saying, "If it feels good, do it!"

Because of good timing, the curse-out wasn't nationally televised on C-Span...and what a shame that citizens might have been able to see our VP acting like a street punk. [...]

Conservatives criticize democratic candidate for President, John Kerry, for being one of the "wealthy elite," whatever that is, while the Bush dynasty has its own enormous pile of dough. Hypocrisy.

They have criticized Kerry's wife (who is not actually running, in case you were not aware) for building ketchup factories in Europe, while the Bush family is selling weapons to foreign countries...re: Carlyle Group...and other Conservatives are closing factories in America and opening new factories in China, Vietnam, Malaya, et al.

Conservatives criticized Democratic candidate for Vice President, John Edwards, for not having enough experience…as if Bush had enough experience, aside from being a failed businessman in spite of being propped up by wealthy contributors. (This was more of an investment than welfare for the profligate son of a rich guy.)

Then there are the criticisms for flip-flopping. This baloney goes back to much earlier times in our history, but it is strikingly odd that those who agree with this charge against Kerry are unable to recognize that Bush has flip-flopped like a beached carp. The most obvious is the flip-flop from "We'll go to Iraq ourselves!" to "We need help from the international community to stabilize Iraq."

Hypocrisy allows Conservatives to pretend the war is justified while it blows up in their faces.

Know this - in contrast to last year, America has awakened and boy, is it pissed at the White House...something UNHEARD of a recently as six months ago. Never mind the polls. The truth is sinking in. By November - unless we allow the crackheads to change the election - the truth will overwhelm the Kool-Aid.