Why do republicans constantly toot the moral horn like they have some kind of lock on the subject?

Personally I think this administration and more then a few republican congress-people in the last six years, have shown a total disdain for moral and ethical behavior in their own lives. How can some people keep believing the GOP is some kind of moral beacon? For those on the religious right, I would take a look at what's happening in your churches, they're no saints either. The point, shouldn't morals be something we practice individually and not dictated to us as a herd?

Why do republicans constantly toot the moral horn like they have some kind of lock on the subject?
right you are ken. The republicans are just better at manipulating voters and pandering to the lesser ideals of Religion...like to people who want to abandon the Constitution in favor of their interpretation of the Bible. It's really not about decent behavior, it's about preceived Biblical laws...It's not even about the real words of Jesus...If the Republican party did not have the blank approval of the religious right, it would be a party of stuffed shirts....Pat Robertson owns diamond mines in Africa..and we all know about the conditions of diamond mines in Africa...He's very rich and of course is supporting Republicans because of his own political views...where did he get the money to invest in these mines anyway...I suspect little old ladies he begged to send him money.





I think Christ was trying to get people to begin with themselves and not use others to get to Heaven...
Reply:They are really a sad reflection on American society-if only they would care about the born as much as the unborn......
Reply:In my books they are called hypocrites. Do you have a better word to describe them?
Reply:They tapped into a large pool of innocents who believe in good quite easily, and have a harder time believing in nice men in good suits who go to church and say the right things, being quite venal.


Morals can be discussed in large forums, but it can only be practiced individually.


I think the past six years has awakened many of the laypeople to how they have been manipulated by their religious leaders and some of them have asked their leaders to look beyond sex and to the care of other humans and poverty and husbanding the earth, the things in other words that Christ was actually concerned about.
Reply:It's a Bush thing.
Reply:Because they are the party of family values. Despite bringing in No Fault Divorces, having affairs with hookers, possible homosexual affairs and are working on their second or even third marriage. This is family values?





The sad truth is that as long as the GOP keeps saying No Gay Marriage, no abortion, no fill in the blanks, the religious right will keep supporting them beleving that their words are speaks more than their actions.
Reply:What's your point?
Reply:Well the republicans I know are all church goers and are very nice people, they tend to want to make you think they are saints, but I catch to may of them, one I caught working illegals, one got a DUI, one was cheating, one was a closet gay, one was a gambler and on and on, I caught the preacher smoking weed before the sermon.


So they are people just like the rest of us but just hate to admit it
Reply:because they try to appeal to born again Christian types who seem to always have the self-righteous God granted responsibility of persecuting everyone that does not believe exactly as they do.





If you haven't noticed, it is always the people of poor character that have to constantly toot their own horn in order to make others and themselves believe their own lies, while perceiving themselves as the victims.
Reply:That's because there is more than one type of Republican. There are some who are curropt because of their corporate interests. Others that are moderate, and some that believe firmly in moral beliefs and are true conservatives. If memory serves, Theodore Roosevelt was a moderate Republican who fought against the curropt Republicans and Liberals.
Reply:Its an issue that has worked for the Republicans in the last decade so they keep to it. They have effectively painted the democrats weak on this issue and worse the democrats let them.
Reply:Tooting horns of morality or open mindness is not solely a Republican behavior. Democrats are famous for their "we are the answer to mankind, the working man, those in need -and yet I have not witnessed many democratic politicians (except when campaigning) lend or volunteer their services. Clinton and Bush Senior are a wonderful example of working together for the better good. The Republican party has an agenda and it may ruffle the feathers of a few and make them feel uncomfortable, (maybe even a twinge of guilt), but it is not preaching it is simply sounding off what they have heard from their supporters. Your hearing the voice of everyday Americans. I also wonder why so many democrats turned Republican when voting post 9-11. I vote for the issues and for the candidate that shows possibilities. The parties are made of human beings, and we all have our flaws, morality is needed. Needed in a nation where child abuse and child porn reign high. Why take it personally? Morals do not mean you have to follow someone else's view of right or wrong-morality could mean doing what is right.



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