A metaphor for Failed Conservative Values?: The type of animal? I don’t know. Maybe a hyena as kind of two-faced. You know, we say one thing and we do another. That might be the animal, but really, it’s hypocrisy.
It’s speaking for fiscal responsibility, but spending money crazily. Fighting a war, but not asking people to sacrifice. Wanting to be competitive, but not adequately funding our education system. Saying that they’re for the rights for the unborn, but yet not providing childcare, not providing health care, not providing adequate housing. Saying they’re for fiscal responsibility and yet leading us to our worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
"I sense the dawn of a new political era. I sense the birth of hypocrisy!"
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. Laurence Sterne, 1760
Failed Conservative Values: Steve Reed on Hypocrisy
My name is Steve Reid, and I believe that’s a myth. There is nothing of the sort of conservative values. They are a total lie. I think that they’ve had 12 years to show their stuff, and they’ve failed miserably.
Hypocrisy. Definitely. Well to put it in kind of a humorous way, I believe that they are so busy trying to get into everyone’s bedroom, that they’re in the men's restrooms at the same time. And I think they are just bizarre. They are corrupt.
We all have our problems, I’m sure, both parties, but I don’t see the Democrats pointing fingers all the time. I see the Republicans pointing fingers every time. And when you point fingers, you’d better have a clean past, and you’d better live up to what you are pointing your finger at.
They do not do that. Most of them who point their fingers the most are those who have the most things to hide in the closet.
A metaphor for Failed Conservative Values?: I’m sure that they could probably relate to a construction equipment called the Back Ho where they keep digging themselves into a hole every single time that they want to build something.
Self righteousness is a mask for hypocrisy and self importance. Carlos Castaneda
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