Ed Schrock dials up a hard fall

I am sure my fellow bloggers will be rubbing their hands with glee at the resignation of Representative Ed Schrock from West Virginia. He's a serious family values, social conservative Republican. You know the type: Self-righteously married, kids, bible thumper, anti-gay marriage, pro-life.

A closeted gay man.

At some point, in an age of future enlightenment, it would be nice to acknowledge the fragile state of the human condition. Someday, Republicans will mute the urge to place themselves on moral pedastals from which they can only plummet. Someday, Democrats will drop the unseemly glee with which they celebrate the fall of a tortured Republican moralist like Schrock (or more recently William Bennet or Jack Ryan).

Indeed, it would be very easy to wag the finger at the self-righteous as the tumble off the pedestal. But it's too easy and too sad. On the other hand, if you live in a glass house...