Posted on 10/02/2006 5:41:31 PM PDT by paltz
Excuse me, name ONE THING I have said that is hyporcritical. Please, I'd love to see it.
You're full of gas.
Are you even vaguely aware of the definition of "hypocritical"?
Another example of politics before principle.
By the time the republican piece together this sordid affair the voting will have commenced. I have never seen so much crap flung against the wall so close to the election. The dems are moving full bore and taking no prisoners. This is savage warfare and the republicans had better step up and get into the trenches and set gentleymen notions aside. We are watching the dems destroy Foley (he brought it on himself) and Hastert, possible Bohner, and perhaps others. They will repeat lies, half lies, and inuendo as truth until the public get sick to death of all of it. The dems desparation is being made a republican desparation. While lies are taveling around the world, the truth is lacing up its shoestrings. I swear, Hastert looks like a blind man groping around in the dark. These republicans had better get ready for much more ugliness and be ready to respond. They need to go on offense. The stakes are too high. Of course, if we become them, what difference does it make.
Have you been paying attention? The House leadership only knew about some innocuous, though annoying e-mails from several years ago. There was nothing about them to cause Foley to resign. These IMs that were actually sexually explicit were from three years ago, but the House leadership did NOT know about them until they were announced by the press last week. When those were made public, I think the House leaders had a sit down with Mr. Foley, after which Foley resigned.
Don't go blaming the Republicans for this because you'll be falling right into the trap the Democrats want. They fed this story to ABC, which printed it, purposely blurring the lines between the e-mails and IMs so that people would blame the Republican leaders for allowing this man to stay in his office. It WASN'T the Republicans who had the IMs, but someone did. Hastert has started the ball rolling to find out exactly WHO had them and gave them to ABC.
Go read your posts and then come back and tell me WHY you are blaming everyone in the GOP and making claims that someone in a leadership position HAD to know.
That's exactly what Hastert did in calling for a full scale investigation by the AG.
would Foley have even resigned if he were a "D"? of course not. Stubbs and Frank didn't.
this story just broke, and you are calling for "justice". the investigation into whether it was a crime has just started. do you think we could at least have an investigation, a grand jury, and a trial first?
I didn't see anywhere in the transcript where this kid told Foley to stop the messages. The kid chose to continue the IM conversation. Why?
If you live through the resultant ass whipping you can return home and vote third-party.
It is very possible that it is the Democrats who are responsible for the cover up, not the Republicans.
Can I get the purple Koolaid concession for this lot?
Conspiracy theories are the lifeblood of liberalism.
OR
Was it simply copied and pasted into a document or email and sent off to someone?...Who was it sent to?...and how did it eventually get to ABC?
I don't think that it's going to take months to uncover who is behind this and WHY it happened now. Oh, the MSM will ignore it all, but talk radio and FNC won't.
Yes, it's time for the GOPers to take off the white gloves and fight back and to fight offensively.
You already own it...but you have drunk it all.
Just for once, I would like the entire Republican caucus close ranks and get in behind someone the Left is trying to bully. They can simply say, get out of this,....we will police our own, but we will not allow inuendo and character asssination be used by gunslingers shooting from the hip trying to take down another republican. The republicans forced Foley out. If there are others that acted with indiscretion, rest assurred we will police our own. But it needs to be done as a block. Otherwise the left will pick of republicans one, by ,one.
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