Is this the same Dick Morris who said President Bush had lost the election after his first debate with lurch?
He quotes Karl Marx huh?
Thank goodness, reason for hope. If Morris says rain, I put the golf clubs in the trunk.
So we should stop trying to protect children? If the messenger spoils the message, then nothing will ever be done. No one is perfect AND not everyone is a child molester. Dick needs to remember both those things.
According to his argument, nobody should listen to him because he is a toe-sucker.
First off, Dick Morris is always wrong. Period. Secondly, for Dick to be correct, voters like me have to decide to pull the lever for a Democrat. This whole affair was a setup designed to depress Republican turnout, ala the DUI charge in late October 2000. We won't get fooled again.
Given Dick Morris's track record on forecasting election results, this is the best news I have seen all week. His batting average would embarrass an American League pitcher!
When you sleep with dogs, you get fleas.
This ought to be a warning to the GOP.
In a curious way, the former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) scandal will be to the Republican congressional leadership what the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio was to the Clinton presidency.
Fine by me.
In the end, Monica was little more than public embarrassment for Clinton. Clinton didn't leave office because of Monica. Clinton didn't lose influence because of Monica - he's still very (if inexplicably) popular throughout the country.
If the worst thing to happen to the GOP out of this is that we become the butt of a few jokes, that's okay by me. We're big enough to take it.
Beyond Foley's district, I doubt this has a profound effect on the elections. I just don't see many voters in other districts putting this ahead of issues like terrorism, the borders, spending, education, taxes, etc.
So oral sex is not sex but internet sex is sex? Hm.
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In a curious way, the former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) scandal will be to the Republican congressional leadership what the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio was to the Clinton presidency."
Not even close. On the one hand you have the President of the United States misbehaving. On the other you have one of the 438 members of the House. The isn't close to the same thing.
He is probably right, but as I have written here, a party cannot create a lasting governing majority based on the scandals of the other party. Realignments occur when great idealogical battles are won like in 1932 or 1980.
Even Watergate didnt benefit the defocrats after 1976. 4 short years after Nixons resignation, the GOP scored big wins in the 1978 midterms setting ther stage for Reagans 1980 landslide.
This will only encourage the defocrats to seek scandal rather than ideas as the way to electoral success..such succes is fleating.
I stick with my prediction for this election:
GOP -30 seats in the House
GOP -6 seats in the Senate
Morris should know by now that the October before an election is "blitz month," in which the Democrats try to regain their long-lost power by inundating the public with hints of Republican scandal. By this time next week, Foley will have been forgotten and we'll be on to some new "scandal" that's sure to propel the Democrats back into power.
I guess Morris thinks they will.
If the GOP loses *BECAUSE* of the Foley scandal and *BECAUSE* the GOP conservative base sits out this one, it will be the fault of the conservatives if the next few years become a policy nightmare for America.
THINK folks, THINK !
1) This is the problem of ONE INDIVIDUAL --- Congressman Foley -- NOT THE ENTIRE PARTY, which has practically DISAVOWED HIM.
2) There was NO ATTEMPT at cover-up. Whatever e-mail evidence that has surfaced thus far is so UNCLEAR that to demand Foley's removal as you read the e-mails would be to accuse him of a crime you cannot prove.
3) The GOP should bring up the hypocrisy of the Democratic party. Foley WAS NEVER FOUND to have abused a youngster, while in the 1980's, a Democratic Congressman Studds WAS DISCOVERED TO HAVE COMMITED CHILD ABUSE ! THE EVIDENCE WAS BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT. Yet, what did the Dims do ? They merely gave him a slap in the wrist and ALLOWED Studds to continue his term ( he eventually won several more elections to the eternal shame of his constituents until his retirement in 1996 ). Shall we forget the call boy ring that Barney Frank ran in the past ? Yet, here he is, still being allowed to vote to increase our taxes and still vote to social engineer this country to death.
My point is this conservative friends --- DO NOT CONFUSE THE ERROR OF FOLEY's ways with the entire GOP party. Punish Foley, not the GOP.
And think of what the ALTERNATIVE WILL BE LIKE IF YOU DECIDE TO SIT THIS ONE OUT !
If there is a nail to the GOP coffin, it will be because conservatives provided the hammer in 2006.
This smells like a toe sucking Democrat.