[Just mythoughts]

bttt

[sageb1]

I mentioned on an earlier thread that I had not followed this from the beginning. I get the impression that the Republicans thought the matter had been taken care of. I asked if the Dems knew about this and covered it up long enough to use it as a political campaign issue. Can anyone clue me in?

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[montag813]

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?

Tell it to Joseph Farah, Michael Reagan, Boo-hoo Bossie, John Gibson, Washington Times, gullible Social Conservatives, and a disturbingly large number of FReepers. They all seem keen to go along with the Democrats and their march to power. The list of traitors to party and country grows by the hour. Meanwhile, Zawahiri looks at this and laughs. Because of a single pervert, America will give the reigns of power to the party of perversion. Could he ask for anything more? And our own turncoats are helping to make it happen. Shame on them.

[Just Lori]

I detest how politics overrides everything we know to be moral and decent.

Lets get down to human decency. If Foley is guilty, he should be tarred, feathered, and HUNG OUT TO DRY. This kind of behavior is detestable in anyone, but we expect, as we should, that a person elected BY us to REPRESENT us does his/her job well, AND with morality and dignity. Those attributes seem to be lacking everywhere, but most of all in our politicians.

[msnimje]

It is very much like that elaborately printed poster of Condi Rice showing up in Lebanon a few hours after a bombing.
All professional printers consulted said a poster of that size, quality, etc would have taken many more hours and extremely expensive equipment to produce.

Yet it showed up in a war zone within hours of an attack.

The way the Foley IM thing evolved smells like an ambush by somebody and most likely some faction of Dems.

[zerosix]

This sordid tale certainly has the smell of the Clinton's hand in all of it.

Remember they don't just try to best their opponents at the ballot box, they are on a "search and destroy" mission!

[TheLion]

Bttt!

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[Non-Sequitur]

As it is, Republicans deny knowing about the explicit text messages that Foley sent to a 16-year-old congressional page back in 2003.

I have a problem believing that the Democrats could know of these text messages and the Republican would not.

[ArGee]

I don't think the Democrats had anything planned any more than the Clintoon had planned his meltdown on Fox. I think they know how to jump on a story like nobody's business. I think the best thing the Republicans can do is let it blow over. If there is any comment to be made, just look at your opponent a little slackjawed and say,

"Wait a minute, are you telling me that the Democrats are now the anti-perversion party???!!!"

That ought to shut them down.

Shalom.

[Hattie]

My question is - Did the Democrats write some of the IM's themselves and attribute them to Foley? Or alter the IM's? This sounds very plausible to me.

Foley is gone, investigation requested. Time to move on. The Dems want Reps to dwell on this and we are playing right into their hands. Rush, Hannity, Mark - time to change the subject to the real issues of this election.

[longtermmemmory]

investors gets it wrong.

IT WAS INSTANT MESSAGES NOT EMAILS!!!!

This is like confusing a yugo with a limo because they are four letter words.

[SunkenCiv]

Is this scandal the Democrats' own "October Surprise," meant to throw the GOP into a tailspin shortly before the vote?

Is this a trick question?

[beaversmom]

ping

[george76]

• In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page — something Foley hasn't been charged with.

Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.

• In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank, also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.

What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him — a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."

• In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)

[DaGman]

The R-Louisiana congressman that the page worked for said he reported this months ago. Democrats had no knowledge.

The First Rule of Holes applies here.

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