Recommended: Sex, lies & excuses: Partisan madness on predators

John Podhoretz in the New York Post today makes a point I have been wanting to make, in his article Sex, lies & excuses: Partisan madness on predators. Hypocrisy I suppose is and has always been a staple of political life, but it is generally cloaked in more high-minded cover stories. These days politicians and journalists seem to be openly hypocritical without feeling any need to pretend otherwise.

Trump ought to be investigated for his supposed (still unproven) Russian connections, but Clinton shouldn't be investigated for her dealings in the Uranium One sale, despite $145 million in Russian donations to the Clinton fund and a $500,000 speaking fee to Bill from a Russian bank immediately after she approved the sale.

Republican Judge Roy Moore ought to be disqualified from running for office for his alleged (still unproven) sexual escapades, but Democrat Al Franken ought not to be removed for his (photographed) sexual excesses. Liberals deride Trump's argument that Moore's Republican vote is needed despite his unsavory character, but argue Franken's Democratic vote is so important that he ought to stay in place despite his unsavory character.

What do you suppose the liberal argument will be for Democratic Representative John Conyers, now accused by two woman?

Democrats argue that Trump ought to be impeached for his alleged (but unproven) past sexual adventures, but argue that Bill Clinton's excesses, including at least one alleged rape, ought to be overlooked because he was (by their lights) a good president.

And of course Democrats were outraged when Senate Republicans used the so-called "nuclear option" to get their Supreme Court nomination approved, even though they themselves had used the same tactic when they were in power, and bragged, before the election, that Hillary would use it to get her nominations approved.

Of course Republicans can be, and often are, just as hypocritical as Democrats, but the past few weeks the most outlandish hypocritical statements have mostly come from liberals.