A Year of Liberal Double Standards | National Review Online:
"Many conservatives finished the year angry about the same thing they were angry about at the beginning of the year: liberal double standards.
As I write this, GOP House whip Steve Scalise is in hot water over reports that he spoke to a group of racist poltroons in Louisiana twelve years ago.
Whether it was an honest mistake, as Scalise plausibly claims, or a sign of something more nefarious, as his detractors hope, remains to be seen.
But one common response on social media is instructive.
Countless conservatives want to know:
Why the double standard?
Barack Obama was friends with a domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers.
His spiritual mentor was a vitriolic racist, Jeremiah Wright.
One of his administration’s closest advisers and allies is Al Sharpton, a man who has inspired enough racial violence to make a grand dragon’s white sheets turn green with envy.
Meanwhile, the Democratic party venerated the late senator Robert Byrd, a former Klansmen himself.
He was one of 19 senators (all Democrats) to sign the Southern Manifesto opposing integration.
One of his co-signers was William Fulbright, Bill Clinton’s mentor.
When Republicans are in power, “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
When Democrats are in power, dissent is the racist fuming of “angry white men.”
Peaceful, law-abiding tea-party groups who cleaned up after their protests — and got legal permits for them — were signs of nascent fascism lurking in the American soul.
Violent, anarchic, and illegal protests by Occupy Wall Street a few years ago or, more recently, in Ferguson, Mo., were proof that a new idealistic generation was renewing its commitment to idealism.
When rich conservatives give money to Republicans, it is a sign that the whole system has been corrupted by fat cats.
When it is revealed that liberal billionaires and left-wing super PACs outspent conservative groups in 2014: crickets.
"The Pontiff has also spoken-out against trickle-down economics, the economic policy that serves as a generator of economic growth and is aimed more at providing opportunities for the poor rather than mere handouts and government dependency.
"RINO Speaker of the House John Boehner, under fire for passing the $1.1 trillion, 1600 page cramdown known as “CRomnibus,” which increases already bloated government spending and fully funds both highly unpopular Obamacare, as well as Obama’s illegal amnesty, has a new influential conservative calling for his replacement as Speaker of the House. "
"Sen. John McCain has orchestrated a major purge of Arizona Republican Party officials who backed his embarrassing censure earlier this year.
"Ferguson protesters stormed St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department headquarters on Wednesday as many chanted, “This is what democracy looks like.”
