Santos, McCarthy and the Shameless Republican Party
Santos, McCarthy and the Shameless Republican Party
By Marc Elias
January 19, 2023
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/santos-mccarthy-and-the-shameless-republican-party/
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The hallmark of the modern Republican Party is its shamelessness. You can be many things and still be a Republican — in favor of free trade or opposed; pro-Ukraine or pro-Putin; even in favor of climate change legislation or against. However, you must not feel shame. You cannot admit mistakes. Hypocrisy is a virtue, not a vice. Most of all, never admit defeat.
When Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) ran for president in 2012, a Republican candidate for Senate claimed that “legitimate rape” rarely leads to pregnancy because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” That candidate was swiftly denounced by Romney and ostracized from the party.
Four years earlier, then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stopped one of his supporters mid-sentence when she made false claims about former President Barack Obama’s background. “No ma’am,” McCain said. “He’s a decent family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign is all about.”
Even former President Richard Nixon felt sufficiently shameful about being associated with the Watergate break-in that he insisted to his supporters that he was not a crook. The assumption that being a crook would disqualify Nixon from holding office just shows that he was a Republican politician from a different era.
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Time for the morally bankrupt GQP to join the Whigs in history's landfill.
Thanks to Marc for all the good work! 
