"Perfection is unattainable until you lower the standards until it is meaningless."
I never said perfection. Leading by example does not require perfection. It requires honor, dignity, and integrity to stand by the things you hold most dear. If you can't walk the walk, one shouldn't talk the talk. It's that simple.
" but you can't apply that title to the right when they have not condoned he actions."
Apparently you haven't been listening to what members of the RNC and faith based organizations (fundies) have been saying.
"Has nothing to do with free will, instead about a social and moral code."
Not true. We are all entitled to do as we see fit. The morals of one group are not always the same as another. One group can not claim morals for the whole of soceity. The Right's morals and standards come from Christianity. Not everyone is Christian, or has to be. Therefore, laws and morals can not be formed to impose on the masses, if not all of the masses agree.
Again, it's all about free will.
As Far as Pot, Kettle.....read your own statement. You made a claim about DEMS that can honestly be said about the GOP, as well.
If you don't like his views about the right, then the right needs to change how they are preceived. He did not make any statement that the majority of people don't agree with, or that many within the Right don't already claim as their basis. Remember, actions speak much louder than words.
"There is still a culture of forgiveness and compassion under the tarnished right's image, circumstances like this alow it to shine through."
Prove it!
When is the last time there was a kind word said from the Right about - drug dealers, gays and lesbians, athiests, communists, Muslims, etc without a sugar coated underlying attack on those groups? "Hate the sin, love the sinner." That's a crock that has been used for eons to oppress others and deny them the same rights you are given.
There is only forgiveness for their own kind. You know that as well as I do. Don't attempt to make the Right out as some sort of compassionate and loving party. They aren't. History proves that they aren't....well, unless you are white, male, and Christian.