The ugly truth will out

I'm waiting for evidence that there is some moral value left in the Republican party. --

But, sadly -- and I really mean that -- the ugly truth will out:  The Republican party of the 2012 campaign was all, and only, about winning.   They left morality, sanity, and truth out of it.   Their good people kept quiet.

From the lies heaped upon lies told by the candidates, none more than by Mitt Romney, to the brazen attempts at preventing legal voters from casting their ballots for Democrats, to this footnote that is coming out now -- where is their moral compass?

Bloviating about preserving the "sanctity of marriage" doesn't count.

The latest concerns Chris Christie's response to Superstorm Sandy.   Once the darling that they were begging to be their standard bearer in the presidential race, who was, in fact, their keynote speaker at the convention, Christie committed the cardinal sin of touring his storm-devastated New Jersey with President Obama and praising him effusively for his effective response.   Because he put people above politics in a time of crisis.

Here's how the New York Times put it:

"In New Jersey, Mr. Christie’s politics-be-damned approach to the storm seemed to represent a moment of high-minded crisis management for a governor frequently defined by his public diatribes and tantrums. Mr. Christie locked arms with Mr. Obama, flew with him on Marine One, talked with him daily and went out of his way to praise him publicly as “outstanding,” “incredibly supportive” and worthy of “great credit."

But Republicans are now blaming him for the loss of the election, saying he should not have flown in the presidential helicopter, should not have stood so close to the president when they gave a joint news conference, should not have heaped so much praise on him.

They're even saying that it has hurt his future chances for the presidential nomination.

And that, my friends, is the picture of the Republican party in the shambles it is following this devastating and, to them, surprising defeat.    Instead of a politics-be-damned approach to the storm, theirs is a people-be-damned approach to politics.

Here we have it:   The Republican presidential candidate did not even bother to call Gov. Christie as the governor of the worst hit state by this storm, while President Obama left the campaign and devoted himself to overseeing the federal response to the storm, talking with Christie and others many times a day, as late as midnight.

Where is the morality?   Where is the competency?   Where is the caring?   Certainly not in Romney and the Republicans.   They don't want a mensch in the White House.   They want a loyal toadie who will do their bidding and shrink the federal government, never mind the needs of the people.

Ralph