Hypocrisy is Necessary to Avoid Complete Depravity

I don't care to discuss the Larry Craig Story. It has already been covered well beyond my tolerance for nausea. What I do find fascinating is the liberal howls of hypocrisy that arise whenever leaders who have previously supported pro-family, pro-decency policies do not live up to the standards that they or their constituents have set. These lefties would have you believe that because someone slips down the slimy slope, that somehow the slime is validated.

Mark Steyn addresses this interesting phenomenon in a recent NRO piece by asserting that some level of hypocrisy is necessary if society is to survive.

"It’s quite possible, on the one hand, to be opposed to the legalization of prostitution yet, on the other, to pull your hat down over your brow every other Tuesday and sneak off to the cat house on the other side of town. Your inability to live up to your own standards does not, in and of itself, nullify them. The Left gives the impression that a Republican senator caught in a whorehouse ought immediately to say, “You’re right. I should have supported earmarks for hookers in the 2005 appropriations bill.”