The beautiful thing about being a Conservative Republican is that you don’t have to trouble your beautiful mind with inconvenient things like facts, truth, or evidence. Truth is whatever you need to convince the American Sheeple it is. Facts can be made up on the spot. And evidence? Well, that’s what we have da Interwebs for, no?
The problem here is not just that Sen. Hatch is channeling his inner Jon Kyl, the Senate’s professor emeritus of Mathematical and Factual Relativism, but he’s also convincing Tony Perkins (there’s a challenge) that 95% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion-related. A more cynical sort might start believing that zealots like Hatch (and Kyl and Perkins) are so determined to destroy a woman’s right to control her own body that they’ll do and/or say whatever, no matter how outrageous, nonfactual, or just plain wrong to achieve their goals.
Some of us might have a problem with lying openly, but all that means is that we actually have a conscience. I’m not certain that can be said about Hatch, though he does like to see himself as a godly, honorable man.
If Warren Hatch is a honorable man of integrity, then I’m the Queen of England.
Remember, trading in lies and propaganda in the service of liberty your narrow Right-wing agenda is no vice. And it’s a whole lot easier than actually constructing a convincing argument based on facts, truth, and evidence.
