More like only right wingers are held to standards at all. Left wingers are just expected to be degenerate, and it's accepted. After all, you can't be a hypocrite if you don't have standards to live up to, right?
No, its more like Right Wingers are held to standards of personal morality that they choose to preach. Left wingers don't preach those standards (like drug abuse and gay stuff), therefore are not attacked for it.
This is why the whole Clinton thing was such a joke. The right tried to attack a democratic president on his violation of right-wing morality. Most everyone on the right was up in arms of course, but everyond on the left was like "so what I don't care what he does in the bedroom."
It's also why Santorum's Tort Reform is a joke, because he and his wife chose to sue a doctor (well chiropractor) for well over the limit he himself feels is appropriate.
Or why Ron Paul's attitude on the excess of government spending is a joke, when he is one of the largest appropriators of earmarks.
Or why Warren Buffet's commentary on the rich not paying enough in taxes is disengenious when he is being investigated by the IRS for tax evasion. (Same goes for that treasury secretary whats-his-name.)
Or why Newt Gingrich is a scumbag for attacking Clinton over an affair while he was having an affair at the same time.
Or why Obama's talk about the importance of due process in shutting down GitMo while apparently caring little for it in the targeted assasinations of civilians.
If you want to attack the actions of a political opponent you have to do so using their own standards. When they violate their own standards of action you can show that their internal logic contains clear contradictions that are exposed through their own actions.
It's not that democrats lack standards though, it's that the standards they have set for governance do not involve personal morality. They don't care what you do in your bedroom or behind closed doors, that's for you to decide. Because republicans have chosen to stick to these issues they have opened themselves to attacks on them as well, and the reason that you see more attacks like this than any other is because for the average american it is far easier to understand "he cheated on his wife with his illegal immigrant maid" than "he did not appropriately assess his assets as a 41-37D priority on the XR7 documentation."
