Posted on 10/10/2006 11:21:21 AM PDT by ConservativeMajority
"Last May, a source put me in touch with a Democratic operative who provided me with the now-infamous emails that Foley had sent in 2004 to a sixteen-year-old page. He also provided several emails that the page sent to the office of Congressman Rodney Alexander, a Louisiana Republican who had sponsored him when he worked on Capitol Hill. Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously, This freaked me out, the page wrote in one email. In the fall of 2005, my source had provided the same material to the St. Petersburg Timesand I presume to The Miami Heraldboth which decided against publishing stories."
(Excerpt) Read more at harpers.org ...
"It was a Democrat who brought me the emails, but comments he made and common sense strongly suggest they were originally leaked by a Republican office."
HUH?
No laws were broken. What could the Republicans do? 16 is the legal age of sexual consent, and the predator laws were written after the event. It was ok for a homo to hit on, or even have sex with a 16 year old kid. It's just two gays guys chatting on the net. The page(s) could have just blocked Foleys e-mails or IMs if they wanted to. They weren't in Washington anymore. They chose to have "Internet sex" with Foley by letting him get through.
If any laws were broken, which I doubt now, the democrats aided and abetted a crime. Maybe conspiracy to influence the outcome of an election might work, too. The Feds will figure it out sooner or later, but sooner would be nice.
If anything, it will galvanize Republican support which was shaping up to be very weak this year.
One without enough 'juice' to get the media to cover the story and who also provides cover to this 'it's an old story' scenario. It was not until these e-mails ALONG with the IM's got into the hands of bigger Democratic operatives (read Raum Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, et al) that the story broke, conveniently one day after the deadline to replace Foley on the ballot in Florida.
CYA by the media.
They knew this was a dirty trick campaign.
And it turns out that the "Republican" was Rodney Alexander, who, because of a party switch, had a lot of Democratic staffers.
Note the term "Republican office". Not an actual Republican, just from one of those offices.
I saw that. (As one who actually read the article)
Common sense?
The timing of the scandal was engineered by the Dems in association with the willing accomplices in the press to be right before the election therefore, it was the Republicans who were more concerned with the election than protecting young men. It was the press, which sat the story and the Dems who are the noble protectors of children and they are not concerned with the election (at least as it benefits the evil Republicans). -
All reason has left these people - they are pathetically self-decieved. They actually believe that they are as pure as the snow because they (the libs) acted in such a way that it demonstrated they were not at all interested in helping the Republicans in the election. Their pure motives were quiet the opposite; they simply wanted to hurt evil republicans, and in their minds that equates to virtue.
Professing to be wise they became fools - only they don't know we are laughing at them not with them.
But, but, but...ummm...he was 16 at one point in his life...
Good catch.
"" The Chief of Staff and five staffers were promptly hired by minority leader Nancy Pelosi. "
Ok Nancy. What did you know and when did you know it?
See #11.
Miss Pelosi has some splaining to do.
DITTO!
Maybe the media were torn between outing a gay Republican congress critter or running the story.
(/sarcasm off)
Who was the Dem operative?
I suspect they just felt it was a matter of timing.
I would like to know who the operative was, and how he got them, though.
The e-mails are to a different person who WAS 16. Don't play into Pelosi's hands by confusing the two.
From what I've read on other threads, Pelosis own "child page" is gay.
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