I really like what Chuck Colson has to say today about the election results this week. Specifically, that the republicans lost because they deserved to because of their hypocrisy. The Foley scandal, Tom Delay’s violation of campaign finance laws, Bob Ney and the Jack Abramoff mess – there are many more and I’m not going to name them all. You can find it all on Google. Colson is right. Republicans came to power expressing conservative values (which, among other things include preserving moral order) and their disdain for corruption amongst their liberal colleagues. They said this, then they turned around and did the same thing.

The democrats will fare no better, I think. In time, they too will become corrupt. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” as Lord Acton said. The real problem, I think, is our ethics (actually, our lack of ethics) and our inability or unwillingness to demand moral character from our leaders.