Conservatives' murder hypocrisy

The faction that currently controls my state has made political theater of their contempt for national government. They've thumbed their nose at federal authority at every opportunity: environmental regulation, healthcare law, voter's rights, guns...especially guns. They extol guns as citizens' only protection from the "over-reach" of illegitimate governmental authority.

Opposing that authority ("Washington," as they call it) has been their faction's national pose as well. Opposing Washington has worked well for them, even when, as in the previous administration, they themselves held the power of the presidency, the House, and the Supreme Court in their control simultaneously.

I'm trying to think of the word that applies here. What do you call politicians who hate authority, and LOVE guns as defence against government, when they profess shock and grief at the murder of law-officers...murder by someone who thinks exactly as they do ?

Are they "oblivious" to the consequences of their political rhetoric...?

are they "disingenuous" in their principles...?

or is it just their hypocrisy showing again ?

Kudos to Ted Cruz

I've made no secret in previous posts of the fact I despise Ted Cruz.

Even in the sewer of Republican politics, there's probably no one sleazier, more blindly doctrinaire, more unctuous, more openly motivated by absolute personal ambition...and more hypocritically "Christian" in service of his ambitions.

But I'll give Ted Cruz kudos for his courage last night with his non-endorsement of Donald Trump, telling Republicans to "vote your conscience."

(Interesting that the delegates booing him, booed even while he closed with "God bless the United States of America:" surreal Republicans !)

Probably his appeal to "conscience" is wasted. Conscience is the first thing partisans abandon in order to follow their politics; followed closely by their honesty and their commonsense.

But Ted Cruz deserves credit for appealing, even if merely in service of his own personal ambition, to the moral sense of Republicans, calling them to consider if it's good...if not for America, then at least for their party's interests...that Donald Trump become President ?

What's amazing is that so many of America's "Evangelicals"...supposed moral leaders...fear speaking against the American Church' political correctness even as far as Ted Cruz does.