The Party of Moral Values~Animal Cruelty, Drugs, Racism and Rape Edition

I admit that I get some kind of perverse satisfaction in pointing out the incidents of of cruelty, indecency, illegality, hypocrisy, and just downright sadism that seems to surround so many members of the political party that has spent the last two decades or so lecturing Americans on moral values and using Jesus as a campaign prop. That's probably because I am, by default, one of those most immoral of immoral beings--a liberal.


Oh well, the following are related to those paragons of morality, the candiates for the Republican presidential nomination, and their campaigns:


So, not only did Giuliani's SC campaign chairman have to quit the Rudy team when he was indicted on charges related to cocaine, it seems that Mr. Giuliani decided to replace the guy with a guy who called the NAACP the "National Association for Retarded People." Classy.


In addition to this, it seems that Mitt Romney has managed to anger many people, especially people who own dogs or at least would never think of doing this to any sentient being:


The incident: dog excrement found on the roof and windows of the Romney station wagon. How it got there: Romney strapped a dog carrier — with the family dog Seamus, an Irish Setter, in it — to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario, which the family apparently completed, despite Seamus’s rather visceral protest.


And if that is not repulsive enough, there's Republican nominee, Sen. Sam Brownback, who tells the National Catholic Men's Conference that a woman who has been raped and becomes pregnant should have to carry the child to term b/c, as the saying goes, "two wrongs don't make a right." Indeed. Brownback's speech apparently elicited a standing ovation in support of encouraging (forcing) rape victims to carry the child of their rapists.


And a couple more:


This from a Republican congressman who not too long ago talked about running for president. This guy lied to the folks at the local animal shelter when he told them he was adpoting those cats as pets when he was, in fact, using them to practice his skills as a surgeon while in medical school.


If this story was in any way a factor in his decision not to run, well, if he only knew then what we all know now...


And the last one from one of the Republicans' favorite allies on the relious right, Dr. Dobson:


When I returned I held up the belt and again told my angry dog to get into his bed. He stood his ground, so I gave him a firm swat across the rear end and he tried to bite the belt. The tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast… I eventually got him to bed, but only because I outwieighed him 200 to 12.


I am, as always, rendered speechless by the glowing example of morality, virtue and compassion that those in the Republican party display as examples of the moral values that they insist all other Americans practice.