Democrats In A Landslide

The ultimate coccooner, Frank Rich is convinced that Democrats won the argument, even though they lost the election.

"The blue ascendancy is nearly as strong among Republicans as it is among Democrats. Those whose "moral values" are invested in cultural heroes like the accused loofah fetishist Bill O'Reilly and the self-gratifying drug consumer Rush Limbaugh are surely joking when they turn apoplectic over MTV. William Bennett's name is now as synonymous with Las Vegas as silicone. The Democrats' Ashton Kutcher is trumped by the Republicans' Britney Spears. Excess and vulgarity, as always, enjoy a vast, bipartisan constituency, and in a democracy no political party will ever stamp them out."

True, there are incidences where champions of decency succumb to temptation (although I wouldn't count Bill O'Reilly as one of the good guys). But, as a great philosopher once said, "hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." I lprefer somebody who at least tries to uphold morality and occasionally fails, to someone who champions immorality.