Wow, now that’s that’s a legitimate double standard. You sound like you’re on Ensign’s payroll, kind of like the son of his mistress. Tell me, do really think that Ensign and Vitter, inspired by conscience, chose to admit their fall from grace? Do you honestly believe that no one knew of their infidelities before they came forward? Have you forgotten about Vitter’s name being found in the client list of the DC Madam? As for Ensign, this odyssey is just beginning.

Next time you get haughty, pick something that is at least plausible.

Unlike the typical Democrat, they owned up to their failures to their wives before the Press got wind of it, and they did not try to blame the woman or run a character assassination campaign against her.

Compare and contrast the behavior of these two men to those paragons of liberal virtuousness; Jim McGreevey, Eliot Spitzer, Rod Blagojevich, etc.

Considering the already criminal nature of the Obama Administration, they seem like worthy successors to The One, don’t they?

Think (not so sure you’re familiar with the concept) about it.

Different only in what is under attack. An economic conservative defends economic freedom; a culture warrior defends social freedoms — specifically, parental prerogatives in child rearing, but not just that.

Actually, that’s not clear. About 35% of Obama supporters thought of themselves as conservatives. (Obviously not conservatives paying a lot of attention.) Or conservatives who let race take precedence over ideology. Blacks, for example, tend to be very socially conservative–strongly pro-life, and in the Prop. 8 election in California, overwhelmingly against gay marriage.

This is neither completely accurate, nor particularly useful.

There are kids who don’t know what they are doing. There are kids (and some women) who have little (or no) choice about whether to have sex.

There are women who have birth control failures. I don’t think this is even a large minority of abortions, but it does happen. It doesn’t make abortion okay, but to say that “she was slutting around” is hardly accurate.

There are catastrophic fetal disasters: Tay-Sachs Disease; anacephaly; a few other relatively rare situations where I have a very hard time being too upset about an abortion. These are a very, very tiny fraction of abortions, but they are truly disasters with no particularly wonderful results. Equating these “slutting around” is simply irresponsible and unloving.

How many social conservatives can you point to who want mandatory school prayer?

Any libertarian who isn’t an anarchist is in no position to complaint about conservatives wanting “to use the muscle of the State.” Libertarians have a smaller list of such areas, but they still believe in the use of the government.

And in fact, social conservatives are far more in agreement with libertarians about the virtues of small government than libertarians are in agreement with liberals.