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Re: Bob Barr...Congressman from Ga. May be on Larry Flynts List.

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From: slidge
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:00
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On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:35:49 GMT, The Sanity Inspector
<chollanamdo@mindspring.com> wrote:
> slidge@tugger.net () shared with usenet this thought:
> 
> 
> >So they hide it.  They commit acts that they consider to be highly
> >immoral, and they hide it from the public so that they won't be considered
> >immoral as they go on their morality crusade.  I believe there is a term
> >for that, its called 'hypocrisy'.
> 
> 	"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue".  At least
> the erring conservative has some inkling that he's transgressed a
> higher moral code.  The libertine liberal, afflicted with spiritual
> deafness,  just says "what's the big deal?"
> 
> --

Of course, they don't get the 'inkling' until they are about to be outed.
Until then, they don't see any problem denouncing what they themselves
are (I am only referring to a certain select few, of course, not the whole
damn party).

-- 
slidge
slidge@tugger.net
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From: slidge@tugger.net ()
Subject: Re: Bob Barr...Congressman from Ga. May be on Larry Flynts List.
Date: 1998/12/24
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