UNDERSTANDING THE ENEMY

While I appreciate the urge to expose the duplicity of these right-wing politicians, liberals need to let go of the notion that conservatives can be shamed by their own hypocrisy. The motto of the Republican party might as well be "Rules are for thee and not for me." 

They obviously don't care if they look like hypocrites. 

There are two main principles that conservatives--evangelicals in particular--live by:

1.     I can tell other people what to do.
2.     Other people cannot tell me what to do. 

These two principles are VERY closely intertwined with the staunch belief that they are inherently good/moral and "others" are inherently bad/immoral. 

This is why they are adamantly opposed to abortion for "others" and why they loiter in front of abortion clinics to scream abuse at the women going inside (principle #1), while AT THE SAME TIME have zero qualms about getting an abortion themselves if needed, because their abortion is the only justified abortion and others cannot tell them what to do (principle #2).  

I know it's gratifying to dig up blatant examples of conservatives fucking up and getting caught doing the same things they purport to be against, and I totally support this practice. But I think it's imperative to also understand the two principles they live by. 

Bottom line: stop thinking that these people operate from the same basic worldview the rest of us do. They don't, and they never have.    

See, it's not that they don't grasp the irony. It's that they don't care.