Two Brilliant Posts on Conservative Mindset

Shakespeare's Sister is guest-blogging on Political Animal currently. She has a post 'musing' on why Conservatives seem incapable of recognizing their own problems when it comes to misdeeds and out-right wrong-doing. She links to a brilliant post by Mannion, who in turns links back to a brilliant post by (tah-dah!) Shake's Sis.

The best line (from LanceMannion):

So their personal moral calculus winds up looking like this:

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things and bad people are the others. I am one of the good people. Therefore the things I do must be good.

This is why if Jesus were around today and a woman taken in adultery ran to him for protection and he said to the crowd, Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone, forty-six Republican adulterers would bean her with rocks.

Cheating on your spouse is something Democrats do.

(Emphasis mine)