The insane shit I just heard Santorum spouting is so crazy it's hilarious!

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21. Can we PLEASE stop pretending Santorum is a progressive?

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work." - Irving Kristol, called by Wikiquote the "godfather of neoconservatism"

The general public is NOT the "highly educated adults" who should be making decisions in this scenario. The republicans repeat the "truth" that is suitable for the general public, and OF COURSE they sound hypocritical - to OUR standards - when they report a different truth to a different class.

In THEIR world, this is NORMAL. It is NOT hypocrisy, it is NOT dishonesty, any more than the tooth fairy is hypocritical. What you do with the general public is make the noises at them that move them where you want them to go. There is no more "truth" or "meaning" to their words TO THE PUBLIC than this.

But the idea that all the conservatives should hold progressive notions of integrity and truthfulness is simply childish. They don't, they won't, and we have to accept this as reality in order to deal with them. They WILL lie, even if tortured. They will lie because they can't help it, not because they know "the truth" and want to hide it from us.