Hypocrites and Moral Legislation as it Relates to the 2012 Election part 1

The upcoming 2012 election, especially the Presidential election will attempt to ask you, what is important to you.  The candidates will attempt to tell you that the most important things in the country are moral legislation.  At most Republican debates, they will talk about things such as abortion laws, gay marriage, and try to establish themselves as hard-working Americans who were never given anything and only succeeded because they outworked the other people. 

The moral legislation is what I want to focus on, here.  Each of the Republican presidential candidates (it may be the same with Democrat candidates but Barack Obama does not have to deal with the debates) talk about how part of the reason America is failing is because we are lacking a certain moral quality.  Ron Paul is the only one who tries to steer away from moral legislation, this is mainly due to paying some type of tribute to his Libertarian ideals.

This does not bode well for Newt Gingrich.  Gingrich was fined $300,000 and admitted that he had "engaged in conduct that did not reflect creditability on the House of Representatives."  He was the first member of the house to be sanctioned in such a way.  He has claimed that the ethics investigation was a partisan effort and did not reflect the ethics violations but reflected the politics of the Democratic party.  It should be noted that the House of Representatives passed the ethics bill 395 to 28 had 196 Republicans voting for it and 26 Republicans voting against it.  He did pay off the fine.  Gingrich's personal life has also been the subject of some scrutiny with his divorce(s).  However, Gingrich has put himself on the defensive about what others might see our moral shortcomings.  He has done this by essentially claiming that his outcome would have been different if the Democratic party would not have singled him out because they were attempting to get him in trouble in general.  Politifact investigated this and has found that he is not telling the truth.  I will only add to politifact's investigation that if the ethics committee was really interested in bringing Gingrich down, they may have eventually brought down the "death penalty" and forced him into resignation.  I would like to re-iterate one point that politifact brought up and that is that Gingrich accepted what could be considered a plea bargain deal, where he admitted one count of wrongdoing and paid the fine. 

Part two will be up at a later date.