Whenever a Politician accuses someone else of immorality, they reveal their own lack of morality.

[riqster]

https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/crankys-first-law-whenever-a-politician-accuses-someone-of-immorality-they-reveal-their-own-iack-of-morality/

Much Source info at the link.

The whole Teabagger Meltdown over Caitlyn Jenner is just the most recent example of hypocritical moralizers with their own secretly amoral lives: for instance, the many-times-married, closeted gay foghorn Rush Limbaugh lambasted her for, well, being a her. Mike Huckabee responded to the Vanity Fair photo of Ms. Jenner by extolling the joys of showering with underaged girls. And so on. And on. AND on.

Every time a politico excoriates an opponent for conduct unbecoming, we come to find out that they have a related skeleton in their own closet. Like “pro-lifer” Scott DesJarlais, who pressured his own wife and mistress to get abortions. Or David Vitter, who hates all sex offenders except himself? Or the crew of Congressional Sluts (Hastert, Hyde, Gingrich, et. al.) who prosecuted Bubba in Blowjobgate?

Sometimes, a fiscal hawk can indeed be a good money manager. And some defense critics actually have served in combat. But never will you see a preachy poltico or pundit rant and rail about dah gay, or women’s healthcare, or anything related to sexual morality who doesn’t have his or her own little secret sex life. Usually one that they are pretending to hate.

Put another way,Orin Kerr recently said these few pithy words:
“If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now has been indicted for lying about payments covering up his sexual contact with a boy.”

Cranky’s First Law has been proven. NEVER trust a politico, pundit, or plutocrat who claims to hate ANY sort of sex or gender-related activity. Sure as eggs is eggs, they are down with some serious private (and mayhap illegal) naughtiness of their own.

[Faux pas]

1. Projection and deflection

are their biggest weapons (they think).

[riqster]

7. Since their other "weapons" are no doubt teenytiny, they may be right.

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9. ...

Could be riqster! Thanks for the laugh.

[hobbit709]

2. Whenever the morality police types go on about something you know they're doing it.

[riqster]

5. And probably doing it wrong.

[HassleCat]

3. Phony outrage

It's great to watch the fake outrage, the taking offense, etc. You're right. When somebody gives a long speech about how same sex marriage will bring about the end of the world, and they go on and on and on, and they get all emotional, it makes me think, "Why are they so very interested in sex?" Turns out the answer might be, "Because they're overcompensating."

[riqster]

4. Like Lord Farquad.

[The2ndWheel]

6. Morality is subjective

The issue is that as a society, we try to set objective moral standards created by imperfect human beings whose morality is subjective, and then we have imperfect human beings whose morality is subjective try and uphold those standards.

[riqster]

8. True. But my point was that many people both use and abuse the standards.