Posted on 10/02/2006 11:17:51 PM PDT by beaversmom
Scandal: Right after Mark Foley was revealed to have had inappropriate e-mail conversations with a 16-year-old page, he resigned and checked into rehab. Now, what did Democrats know, and when did they know it?
Yes, you read that right: the Democrats. It's of course clear that Foley, a Republican representative from Florida, resigned for good cause. We don't defend him or his inexcusable behavior — good riddance.
But it didn't take long at all after Foley's resignation for the Democrats to call for an investigation of the entire Republican leadership in the House, charging that GOP stalwarts knew early on that Foley, as they like to say in the rehab business, had a "problem."
Democrats have begun losing their once-significant lead in the polls, and a mere five weeks remain until the midterm elections. Is this scandal the Democrats' own "October Surprise," meant to throw the GOP into a tailspin shortly before the vote?
Recent polls show Democrats aren't doing very well on several key issues. What better way than a good, old-fashioned sex scandal to get people's minds off such things as the importance of winning the war in Iraq, our ongoing vulnerability to terrorist attack and the necessity of keeping the Bush economic boom going?
As it is, Republicans deny knowing about the explicit text messages that Foley sent to a 16-year-old congressional page back in 2003. In repudiating Foley, House Speaker Dennis Hastert called the messages "vile and repulsive."
Despite this, the immediate take by Democrats and much of the mainstream media was that this was a classic example of Republican hypocrisy — talking "morals" and "values" while all the time shielding a child predator. But it was nothing of the kind...
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Oh don't get me wrong. Foley should rot in hell. That wasn't my question.
Well the 'wrong' is that Republicans got browbeat with the continuous accusation that Republicans are homophobes. Republicans took the liberal ideology that don't ask don't tell applied across the board. They did not ask and Foley did not tell, but somebody knew exactly who and what Foley was and got the documentation to prove it and held back all these 3 plus years to knock him out of office.
There is another thread here that links a hint that the Republican nominee for governor of Florida, Charlie something was roommates with Foley in college. So may well be that Charlie is next on the liberal hit list to knock him out of this political campaign. I will see if I can find it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712301/posts post 83.
Ping me when you find that.
Well what WAS your question?
See my post #22 above there is the link and the hint is found at post 83.
Thanks!
You are welcome.
Doing your homework for you. I said up front that I had not been able to follow this from breaking news. Life sometimes gets in the way, ya know?
Tnank you!
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Mark Levin is talking about a liberal Group card C.R.E.W who has taken more from Soro's gave the E-mails to the FBI in July.
http://levin.nationalreview.com/
I think the Dems pretty much live in PlexiglasTM houses.
Thanks.
Thanks for posting that link. I've been trying to think of Bob Livingston's name tonight. This situation kind of reminds me of that. Clinton screws around, lies under oath, and Bob Livingston is forced to resign. Now there are the predictable rumblings that Hastert is going to have to go? It's just unbelieveable. I'll say one thing though, the Dems know how to orchestrate and conduct this kind of thing. They are as good as the Ismlamonuts that go into a rage at a moment's notice.
Perhaps, but if that is the case, why didn't the Republican leadership come out with this much earlier so as not to allow the Dims to do it so close to election time? Shows even more incompetence on the part of the GOP leadership than might normally be expected.
That was my thought. What self respecting boy or man would continue such a conversation, unless he was with his friends and they were having a good laugh, or perhaps he is gay? Or, it was a set up.
LATEST UPDATE:
http://floppingaces2.blogspot.com/
Jason Leopold and Mike Rogers mentioned, along with a statement by Melanie Sloan [CREW].
Also possible proof messages were tampered with.[diagrams in link]
Yeah, I've heard that all day on the radio.......same questions over and over. I think we get it. The dems play dirty......ok......disgustingly dirty. Nothing new there. (I laughed when I heard Hillary the other day saying the Republicans won't stop digging)!
The fact that needs to be addressed here is that a man was elected to office who doesn't deserve to clean my cleats! IF any of OUR party members knew of his perversion (preying on kids) then we need to throw their butts out, too! The blame and point the finger game is beyond "worn out". It's time to hold EVERY elected official accountable.
BJ Clinton is no longer an acceptable standard.
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