Posted on 10/02/2006 1:42:32 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 2, 2006 - 16:32
Day One: Suspicious-but-not-explict emails.
Day Two: Explicit instant messages, but no evidence Foley met with boys.
Day Four: Instant message indicating Foley was indeed seeking to meet and possibly had already met with a boy.
Foley deserves what he's gotten and what is likely to come. But it seems increasingly plausible that the timed release of information - of ever-increasing seriousness - is part of a calculated campaign to keep the story in the news and inflict the maximum amount of political damage on the GOP.
That would seem the logical inference in light of the latest information promulgated this afternoon by ABC News. An article written by Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer, E-mails Show Foley Sought to Rendezvous with Page, contains the text of an instant message session in which Foley expressly tells a boy "I want to see you." Foley also mentions "I miss you a lot since San Diego," suggesting that perhaps they had already met.
When Ross' source provided him the first email, isn't it likely that he already had the more graphic instant messages in his possession? But dumping everything on day one would have reduced the number of news cycles of front page coverage.
This story has obviously destroyed Foley's professional career. It might inflict wider damage on the GOP. But if it turns out that political partisans were behind a carefully-timed disclosure campaign, it's not hard to imagine a serious backlash on the Democrats.
So what is the Democrat's problem? Foley did nothing that 30% of their constituency doesn't do. And he sure the hell didn't RAPE a 13 year old girl, get her pregnant and force her to have an abortion.
Wait a sec .. maybe that's why they're so p*ssed off?!?
/s
It's a felony to engage in sexual conversations with monors, which Foley's IM's seem to be, inasmuch as they discuss masturbation techniques and slipping off the 16-year old's pants.
Ed
I am a little confused. Wasn't it about six years ago there was a rumor he was a homosexual?
-PJ
well put!
ROFL..this thread has made the DU..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2287475
Isn't it classic? The very first comment on the DU thread reads "So the Freeps are excusing his child predator habits?"
I have seen no conservative on this thread or elsewhere excuse Foley. To the contrary, most express a view similar to the one I did in my original post - which the DUer apparently failed to read - that "Foley deserves what he's gotten and what is likely to come."
I know but they're pathetic over there (and actually quite funny..they ought to market those tinfoil hats they wear on the advertising banner)..almost all here condemn the guy, but they can't see that..
I suppose they figure it was the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy who leaked the messages to ABC.
Not too many things slimier than an MSM reporter.
By tomorrow morning they'll have convinced themselves this is backfiring and get all paranoid again....or,IOW, if you're a DUmmie...back to normal. I'm guessing they'll be right, too. It may very well backfire, and they should be paranoid. We kick the bums out. They keep bringing their bums back.I'm not worried, just yet. After all, they have Pelosi, Reid, and Dean. We have Rove and Diebold.
and if he has to, rove will activate the weather machine in heavily dem areas to keep them away..(that's after he sets the daily gasoline per gallon price)..
"George Bush possesses a mechanical de-vice!"
Sure, there *could* have been some entrapment. Sure, who keeps 5 year old IM conversations? On the other hand, who the heck keeps jizz-stained dresses?
Using this logic, Rasheeda Moore was a GOP plant (the girl with whom Hizzonor Marion Berry was smoking crack with) and so was Monica Lewinsky.
Monica and the other IM party are examples of sexual temptation that powerful politicians are unable/unwilling to resist. On one side, Monica was an adult, but on the other side, Clinton did lie to America on national TV.
If all Hastert and other GOP leaders knew were the emails and it is established then the damage might be isolated to the FL-1 compartment, much as the Abramoff damage seems to be localized instead of generalized.
Otherwise, the GOP is taking a hit below the waterline and taking on water fast.
I haven't suggested entrapment. Foley clearly seems to have a pattern of bad behavior. He got into it on his own - no help needed. I'm simply suggesting that the way the story is being slowly doled out suggests it could be part of a campaign calculated to inflict maximum damage on the GOP.
Just wait until around the 20th of October.
If the GOP leadership covered things up, they will lose in five weeks.
I will go so far as to say there may be a Christian third party formed in the aftermath. If this third party is at all concerned with social justice issues as opposed to only caring about gays and abortion, it may get a large number of disaffected black and Catholic Democrats.
There are five more weeks. Remember in 1992 there were useless Iran-Contra indictments handed own the Saturday before the election.
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