He grew up on the left and assumed that the left stood on the moral high ground.
It not only propagates a view that they are more interested in taking on the government than representing their workers but it suggests the government has the moral high ground and has no option but to stamp down hard on them.
Ironically, the one area where Perry is clearly on both pragmatic and moral high ground is where his supporters are turning their backs on him the quickest: immigration.
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Adding insult to injury, it is not uncommon to find that the CEOs or government officials snitches catch committing crimes feel they are on moral high ground when they condemn the whistleblowers who exposed them.
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Romney receives a massive federal subsidy to campaign for president, but so does Obama, so neither candidate holds the moral high ground on that point.
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And, if that's the argument, then on what moral high ground do Latinos stand to also push -- as we should -- for Latino actors and actresses to be considered for generic and mainstream roles that could have gone to white actors?
We are a nation that stands on high moral ground and are in the position to help others have the same.
The look on their faces declared that we had abandoned any alleged moral high-ground, which they, at least for the moment, sought to occupy with regard to their treatment of Louis and me, if only to demonstrate to themselves their own moral superiority.
Perhaps, if we put ourselves on a course of financial prudence, we will have the moral high ground to demand it of our government and corporations.
But before anyone starts claiming moral high ground, it is worth appreciating why some of the things happening on Wall Street are unlikely to happen here.
Economists said Berlusconi commanded neither sufficient political authority to push through spending cuts nor the moral high ground to squeeze more taxes out of Italians while he faced trial on various charges.
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