GOP former lawmaker charged with child porn

This is why we call 'em Rethuglicans!

The GOP paints itself as the party of morality, but stories like these prove the party's hypocrisy. So I report these stories.

Chris Ortloff is a former New York state representative. Now he serves on the state's parole board. Big Republican, he is.

Now a guy who made laws and deals with convicts is in trouble with the law himself. Ortloff, 61, has now been arrested on charges involving child porn and his alleged attempt to pick up an under-age individual on the Internet.

Ortloff was always one of these self-styled "tough on crime" guys. Everyone else was considered a criminal by him. He was appointed to the parole board by Republican then-Gov. George "Wacky" Pataki, another politician who considered himself a superman of crime-fighting.

Another day, another Republican busted on child porn charges or for picking up minors online. This makes how many now?

As someone on DU pointed out, "tough on crime" types often do turn out to be criminals. Kind of like how people who think everyone else is lying to them turn out to be liars, and people who think everyone else is stealing from them turn out to be thieves. (We all know economic rightists who are good examples of the latter.)

(Source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=169x8353)