There’s been another example of a Republican cheating on his wife and getting caught with a mistress.

Yes, some of you respond, but Democrats do that too!  Remember Bill Clinton?

You’re right.  Democrats certainly have no monopoly on ethical behavior.   In the last few weeks there have been a bunch of Democrats being caught in money scandals, for instance (as they rightly should have been).

The issue though isn’t about ethics;  it’s about hypocrisy.

Politicians who talk about “family values” being so important are while they are undermining those same values are hypocrites.   Voting against gay marriage and then getting caught soliciting sex in a men’s bathroom doesn’t help your cause much.   Being against abortion while telling your girlfriend to get one does little to endear you to anyone.

And that’s why it’s news.    And why it gets bigger coverage than it probably should.  It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.

And rightly so.