WTF? Alan Grayson's estranged wife is getting food stamps

[ancianita]

510. Bad apple? You presume standards that used to be off the table, now put front and center by cowards

cowed by the loud jackals of Republican PR machinery. This is corporate straw man bullshit.

If one's marriage were on the table (which it isn't 99% of the time) as a moral standard for voting, most governors, state reps, mayors -- hell, most of Congress -- wouldn't be in office. We all know this.

And yet they are. Because most Democrats understand that there's a greater morality at stake for this party. Most Democrats believe that no marital struggles should be exploitable by the Republican Party in an attempt to subvert the Democratic Party's greater ends. Do others do it for them? Sure. But the party principles are historically solid about politicians' marriages.

Every day, Christians remind each other of what Jesus said, "Judge not, lest ye be judged."

The party of FDR is made of people who mostly think in the way Shakespeare had Hamlet speak to that governmental weasel, Polonius:

"...use every man
After his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less
They deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."

Even Republicans understand this. This thing called forgiveness, and getting on with larger issues.

And here you are, forgetting; trying to act as if one man's marital struggle is part and parcel of the morality for the masses that this party must uphold. It's important to you right now because some people always say that anything is on the table. In the long run, no one's marital problems are as important as all our problems.

Making marital success the measure of one's leadership capabilities is trifling.

Let's all support Democrats! Now is not squabble time! We don't have to like them personally to support their politics.

Get them into office, first. Attack their personal lives later. You simply refuse to separate a politician's work from his personal life. Thank the god I don't believe in that we've had Democrats who've done good work for this country in spite of your standards.