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Liberals love to rail against conservatives when we mess up because we take such firm and public stands about right and wrong. As I predicted when Sanford admitted his affair, the Left has gone crazy wanting to let us right-wingers know we are a bunch of hypocrites for daring to have morals that we know we will not always live up to. In fact, I pointed out that the difference between us and them isn’t that we screw up – it’s that we refuse to dilute our belief in right and wrong even though we know we will fail.

Maureen Dowd, the stereotype of idiotic liberalism, demonstrates my point perfectly in her Sunday column:

Sanford should give his piety a rest. He told his cabinet that the Psalms taught him humility. (There’s a chance that a younger Argentine boyfriend of Maria’s also taught him humility, by jealously hacking into her e-mail account and leaking the governor’s missives.)

Sanford can be truly humble only if he stops dictating to others, who also have desires and weaknesses, how to behave in their private lives.

The Republican Party will never revive itself until its sanctimonious pantheon — Sanford, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Palin, Ensign, Vitter and hypocrites yet to be exposed — stop being two-faced.

Far be it for Dowd to let a man apologize and leave it there – if that man is a Republican, that is.

Let me ask this question to Ms. Dowd: Where is your righteous indignation toward Mr. Obama for signing anti-tobacco legislation and speaking out against it? Even while he was endorsing the legislation he admitted he still returns to his habit at times. Isn’t it just as hypocritical for Obama to admit to smoking (not to mention his past drug abuse) while supporting anti-tobacco legislation?

Of course it is hypocritical and of course we don’t care. We all know we have vices and we all know we screw up. Raising our voice in support of what is right and good in this world isn’t a way to cast ourselves under a shroud of righteousness. Why don’t liberals like Dowd understand this?

I suggest the reason is because they’re the ones afflicted with the syndrome they say conservatives have. Let me put it this way: Sanford is being lambasted by Dowd for having an affair even though he presents himself as a good, honest, Christian man – therefore he is a hypocrite. So, does Ms. Dowd not think that having affairs is wrong? Or put another way, do Democrats who engage in scandals not think what they do is wrong?

Chris Dodd has been put under the radar recently for getting a sweetheart deal on a mortgage. Is he a hypocrite? If the answer is no, then Dodd doesn’t believe what he did is wrong. Do Democrats like Dowd support people like Chris Dodd who don’t believe that his sweetheart deal was wrong? I’d feel much better with a politician that screws up and knows it rather than one who screws up and thinks it’s okay.

And who can forget Tim Geithner – the man who currently overseas the IRS as Secretary of the TReasury and cheated on his tax returns. Surely there is something hypocritical in that story that Maureen Dowd could get righteous about.

Liberals are quick to point out that it is especially bad for Republicans because we are so public about our beliefs, or that we try to govern in a way that corresponds with how we believe. If Sanford wasn’t an opponent of gay marriage as the governor of South Carolina, for instance, it wouldn’t be so bad.

Of course, that doesn’t help ol’ Chris Dodd – who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking. I’d say that’s a pretty public way to support, if anything, fair and honest banking practices. And it sure doesn’t help President Obama who signed an anti-tobacco bill even though he smokes – or Tim Geithner is in charge of the organization he cheated out of thousands of dollars.

So which is it Maureen? Liberals screw up just as much as conservatives. I know it, and you know it. Is your beef with the fact that conservatives are unyielding about their moral convictions even in the face of their own screw-ups? Are you trying to tell us that when Democrats screw up, at least they don’t believe that what they did was wrong, whereas Republicans are “hypocrites” because they do?

Or do you just like to use the hypocrisy of Republicans to advance your own political agenda, while ignoring the many faults of your fellow Lefties.

Gov. Sanford’s recent admission of an affair he was having in Argentina is absolutely shameful. Let’s be clear: extramaritial affairs are absolutely dispicable and completely unexcusable. It was true for John Edwards as a Democrat and it’s true for Mark Sanford as a Republican.

Sanford wasn’t just a leaderand rising star of the Republican party. He appeared to be an authentic embodiment of conservative principles. We all know the now-famous story of Sanford protesting wild spending by bringing a couple of pigs into the State House.

Democrats are going to use this opportunity to remind everyone how Republicans are a bunch of hypocrites, and there isn’t much use trying to fight it. Unlike Democrats, we on the Right go to great lengths stand for a particular set of moral values. We make the road harder for ourselves because we engage in unflinching rhetoric about right and wrong and it is impossible for anyone to live up to the standards we set for ourselves.

But we know we’re going to mess up, we just don’t use it as an excuse to dillute our values and blur the lines between what’s right and wrong.

It’s a sad thing to see someone like Sanford go down in flames like this. He had a great career ahead of him and he threw it away for something I’m sure he now doubts was worth it.

All of our thoughts and prayers right now should go toward Gov. Sanford, and espcially his wife. It is hard enough to deal with the pain and grief of an affair, but to do it under the public’s eye is unthinkable. And while many will rightly say that Sanford deserves to go through the public humiliation that he is – his wife, Jenny, does not.

Here’s looking to 2012, when this mess will be behind us and we’ll have one less candidate to represent our party.

Read about it here.

Sanford is now the most famous Republican on foreign affairs.

An Argentinian romance?