Bravo!!
Clinton and the intern,
Barney Frank's escort service,
the Mel Reynolds incident,
McGreevy,
Teddy "the swimmer,"
the Dem list is ENDLESS.
Fight back, but don't expect the White House or Congress to do it. This will have to be done by the grass roots.
While both are sick, sick, behavior, I can't see how trying to equate inappropriate behavior among cosenting adults to someone trying to seduce a minor is a winning tactic.
One, while perverse, was legal (but the lie wasn't). The other may very well have been a crime though I'm withholding judgement until the smoke clears and the facts start to become visible.
Gerry Eastman Studds (born May 12, 1937) is a retired American politician, born in Mineola, New York. He served as a Democratic Congressman for Massachusetts from 1973 until 1996. He was the first openly homosexual member of the US Congress and, more generally, the first openly gay national politician in the US. In 1983, he admitted having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male page a decade earlier.
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*Yeah, right. "...poor,misguided...man...with a romantic thing...? That is an asbsolutely detestable framing of Foley's crimes. That formulation is sympathetic and seems to ecpress compassion for that miserable bastard who was courting catamites among those for whom he is supposed to be acting in loco parentis.
And what about his victims?
Of course Foley has now run oft to some drug rehab center and we can boo hoo over his addiciton to alcohol too.
Poiticising the issue is to be expected - all the bastards are politicans and act politically.
But, Stein fails miserably here right from the get go.
As usual, Ben Stein hits the nail squarely on its head.
From what I discern thus far the emails to the pages where after they left D.C. and and the lurid IMs where after they turned 17. And that while the pages worked in Congress Foley didn't approach any of them for 'anything', the pages just found him "creepy".
Now over the years I've had to deal with some gay Architects, Engineers and building owners - and the way they act and talk can definitely be considered "creepy" by anyone whose straight and for sure by a 16 yo teen. Not exactly 'flaming', but close.
Note: I'm not sticking up for him, he's sick, but was any actual crime committed, i.e. age of consent?
An aside, if Hastert would have admonished Foley for the 'friendly' emails, would that be "Gay Bashing", or discrimination? And could Foley have sued?
The problem, Ben, is that the Republican Party sells itself as the party of morality, of Christianity, of decent behavior. It does not ally itself with sexual immorality or perversity of any sort. So for the Republican leadership to sweep this under the rug for so long and try to run this guy for reelection is hypocrisy.
And before anyone says that Denny Hastert didn't know about it until just the other day: Ben, the gay community in Foley's district in Palm Beach knew Foley to be queer and a predator. A lot of people on the Hill knew about this and had to warn young pages about Foley. It was not much of a secret, apparently.
What they had to warn the kids about was not that Foley had a "romantic" thing for young boys, but that he was a predator. To call what he was doing "a romantic thing" trivializes and glamorizes a filthy perversion.
Yes, what Gerry Studds and Teddy Kennedy and Bill Clinton and Barney Franks did was profoundly wrong. All of them ought to have been horsewhipped and driven from office, then put in jail. But if we are indeed the party of decent people, the party of normalcy, the party of Christianity, then we cannot make excuses for what Foley did.
The Republican Party is now going to lose big-time in November. That means we are all going to be punished for what this one evil man did.
It's because of people like Bill Clinton and Barney Frank that the Republicans are able to take the moral high ground in topics such as gay marriage and the like.
To keep this goober as the freaking chairman of the committee for exploited children all the while it was well known that he was gay and had a scent of scandal on him is beyond prepostorous.
I am more outraged at the way the MSM and Washington Post has made Woodward's book the top story of the week. It's disgraceful...and a good thing I'm not president.
Beckel bristled mightily and said he didn't appreciate being intro'd that way.!
I have never let my children off the hook when they give me the old "everyone else does it" excuse.
Just because someone else does it doesn't justify me doing it. Wrong is wrong!
While we can point out the hypocricy of the dems, there is NO excuse for what it appears Foley did. I want to get to the truth and then make the proper judgement.
I am also left wondering if the page office warned incoming pages about Foley, was he the only one? I want them all cleared out.
Not only did the Democrats have a Presidential hero with a prediliction for fellatio, that same hero had a gay attorney general who supported lowering the age of consent.
Do you think that maybe someone could dig up some suggestive emails from Janet Reno to young women?
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