KY Democrats

Having been raised a Democrat in KY, I never really thought about the entrenched position the party really had in the state. I worked for Brereton (a juicy tidbit those who seek my identity should see as a significant clue, though I think it's already painfully obvious who I am), who was a relative outsider and Virginia Republican, apparently, but I was totally blind to the abuses of the party. Now that I'm an independent, and, I guess for some time before, I'm disgusted with much of the Good Ole Boy system that existed under the Dems. When I found out via the usually wonderful BlueGrassReport that Ben Chandler's brother-in-law had been a merit system target, my first response was, "Hmmm, I wonder how he got that job?"

All that said, any Republican who rationalizes the misdeeds of their party away with the glib reply that "The Democrats did it, too," is a classis example of hypocrisy on the morally relativistic issue. Like torture, where what we do is not nearly as bad as what other countries do to their detainees, America should not just be held to a higher standard, but an absolute standard. Expediency is not a family value, nor is hiring an unqualified political hack to a cabinet level position or finagling him or her into a merit position job.

Sorry, no exciting links, just something I was thinking about. Tomorrow, why we should annex Mexico.