The media loves this. Nothing physical happened but the media is going to make it sound like many boys were ravished by Foley.
Carolyn Lockhead from the San Fransicko Comical. Like Im supposed to care what she has to say.
This article is a MESS.
:::banging head:::
Is anybody else watching Chris Matthews on Leno spewing the Dem talking points? He is saying that Republicans were more worried about protecting one of their own than the children
The writer of this article should read this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1712501/posts
The case isn't going to turn off the conservative base. The conservative base isn't that stupid. They know that Foley is the problem of the people of his district and if they make it their problem, they get high taxes, funds cut for the War on Terror, 2 years of impeachment hearings, a roll back on partial birth abortion legislation, Pelosi as Speaker of the House, Conyers as head of Judiciary, so, no, they're not going to be that turned off.
"Foley e-mail sex scandal hits the GOP hard "
Oh doesn't the SF Chronicle wish! What we have is a bunch of dims screaming on talk programs, and so far, every time I have heard someone advise them that the Dims had different standards when one of their own was actually having sex with a page or an intern.
Today on Fox they had one dim babette who tried to refer to it as a "culture of corruption", and much to my surprise, Shep Smith shut her up. He didn't let her get another word in during the inerview.
How is this possible? Don't the queers see Foley as one of their's and now want to vote with the GOP?
After all, the dems are "chewing him up" and we know queers only believe they can bite their own.
I am just too confused on this issue...
notice how the media treats a conservative gay person... were it the other kind of gay there would be no such savagery as this
I don't agree with the title's premise.
Understanding demographics .. it's important to know that a guy called in to Rush's program today and he was hoping mad AT THE DEMOCRATS. He said he wasn't very happy with the repubs and he had been considering sitting out the election .. but this dirty trick by the dems has made him mad as hell. Now .. he's voting and only for repubs.
Like I said .. it may seem anecdotal, but if you study demographics .. that one phone call really represents THOUSANDS of other callers (who didn't call but felt the same way).
The dems have been sitting on this for awhile - because Hastert knew of the E-MAILS about 3 years ago - Foley was warned at that time - but when the Instant Msgs started is unknown and Hastert said he found out about them 5 days ago. So .. who knew about them before then ..?? And .. who waited to release them late in the election cycle ..??
And .. several months ago Rush wrote an article about the excessive lies that will be used during this election cycle. I believe we're actually seeing that come to pass.
"I like, you know, for some reason, uh, think this story is funny. He just like sent him email and messages? And he's in trouble? All they did to me was make me wear an ankle thingy. That congress guy needs to start wearing dresses and womens wigs! If he looks hot enough as a homo transsexual transvestite whatever he'd be OK! Those democrats would leave him alone."
In addition you will NOTE for the record [the DBM won't do so] that Studds and Frank were NOT even CHARGED with a crime and STAYED on as members of the House. Reynolds was of course pardoned by the King of the World and REAPED nothing for the 'sowing' of a 14 year old child
Foley, from the news that has been reported ONLY emailed and IM'd his VICTIMS and supposedly never got near enough to TOUCH any of them. But within 15 minutes of being asked questions about emails by the DBM he resigns his office and the entire GOP is being called on the carpet for covering up the story!!
All in all, I say............."It's good to be a DEMOCRAT!!"
I haven't seen this much infighting on this site since Terry Schiavo. Unless facts prove otherwise, can't be band together and support the Republican leadership of Congress. The RATS are trying to pull a guilt by association...trying to confuse e:mails/IMs.
From what I've seen, Hastert did the right thing, and reported the e:mail incident. I also believe him that he just learned of the IMs.
We've got through so much BS with Fitzmas, books, the Dumbo Street Memo, you name it. It would be a crying shame to lose in the home stretch by falling for the claptrap that the RATS and MSM are putting forth.
Foley's gone. That's great. If the rest of the story is what Hastert is saying, there's no need to start cleaning house.
This election is too important to lose. We have to stick together
""A big deal should be made of it, and we intend to make a big deal of it," he said. "We plan to address it in pulpits across the country, that this is an egregious moral violation, and we all will be held accountable."
Amen to that.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable in our party.
I don't see how it could hit the GOP 'that' hard. After all, it's not as if mainstream American voters connect conservative Reps to homosexual pedaphiles. That connection would more likely be made to the DemRats.
Just as most mainstream, average American voters have become familiar with DemRat tactics in an election year (Rathergate comes immediately to mind), I realize the desperation of the left and how they ALWAYS pull these last-minute slime routines. But honestly, I don't see this as critical. I see it as just as irrelevant as pretty much everything else the DemRats have managed to come up with to use and throw at Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfield, Condi and anyone else they consider to be a threat.
Also, as has already been pointed out, by linking Foley's sexual preference (homosexual) to a charge of pedaphilia, the DemRats are, once again, still and as usual, shooting themselves in the a....er....foot. And I, for one, love it when that happens.
Social conservatives do not like homosexuals holding public office even if they are Republican.
Most social conservatives, the category this story is supposedly describing as "value voters", are glad that Foley is being replaced.
It will make those in his district more likely to vote Republican.