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The Foley Set-Up
various FR links and blogs | 10-04-06 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 10/04/2006 2:12:07 PM PDT by backhoe

The latest- the blogs are all over this- go to them and use their links:
 
Foley Setup? - Part V - Uncovering the Conspiracy--I don’t think I’ve ever seen a political conspiracy unravel as fast as this one that involves former representative Mark Foley.
These you must read to catch up on the story...
MacsMind - Foleygate Part IV
MacsMind - Foleygate Part V
 
[Foley Outer] Mike Rogers Tried To Blackmail Senator On Alito Vote--Rogers was named as one of Genre Magazine’s Men We Love. http://www.pageonenewsmedia.com/docs/bio.html
Here's the list of intimidation.
http://www.blogactive.com/2006_06_01_blogactive_archive.html
I don't think that these Gay activists who "out" other gays care about the damage that they do. They are angy haters...
 
Foley Information at Midterm Predicted on 3/22/05.
 
JOURNALIST: 'GOOD CHANCE' GAY GOP 'OUT' LIST TO HIT INTERNET...
Fever Swamp Blogs Hid Foley Evidence?

There’s now evidence that the fever swamp blogosphere (led by the vicious John Avarosis, who runs one of the ugliest of the lefty hate sites, Americablog), deliberately concealed information about Mark Foley for months without any concern for potential victims of Foley’s advances, so they could spring it on the public at election time. Gateway Pundit has a roundup: Get Your Lawyers... Foleygate Scandal About to Bust Open!  link: 107 comments  --hillary's fingerprints all over it. Link

Take a look at this: Michael Rogers of Blogactive threatened Kirk Fordham too. In July 2004

 
SCANDAL SATURATION? Mickey Kaus wonders about the "Densepack Theory," Karl Rotstan agrees: "Now that the Rubicon has been crossed so close to the election, we should prepare ourselves for an avalanche of Congressional filth, the likes of which will make Clinton's experience look tame by comparison." ANOTHER UPDATE: It's starting.  MORE: Indeed:
 
DEMOCRAT 537 ROBOCALLS ON FOLEY! (Democrats Moving In For The Kill!)
 
Get Your Lawyers Foleygate Scandal About to Bust Open (Gateway Pundit doing good detective work!)--Radical Gay Rights Activists held on to information about Representative Foley for months and years. These "Rights Activists" knew that representative Foley had relationships with "young men less than half his age." They did their own investigation on Foley. They even flew in their sources in to be interviewed about the Representative. They shared this information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. They held on to the information for over a year. They wrote about how they would break the story at midterm elections.
QandO Blog now has evidence that John Aravosis (the radical gay activist from AmericaBlog- "He deserves to be publicly excoriated." 7-2004) had copies of the emails "months ago!"
This is important from Macsmind-
Sweetness and Light reported on the Mike Rogers connection on Sunday:
 Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker has more.
Wild Bill at Passionate America has big news he is reporting at 4:00 PM CST today.
And, then there is this BOMBSHELL from Clarice...Dick Morris just said on FOX that a respected reporter told him that she has proof that a senior democrat member of congress knew about the IMs months ago–unlike Hastert.
 Also, keep an eye on The Strata-Sphere.
Right Wing Nuthouse is also on the story.
Previously:
The Foley Fallout
Foley Fallout: What We Know Now
Foleygate! Altered Images! What's Going On Here?
Foleygate: What Stunk Like a Rat, Was a Democ-Rat!
If Gay Activists & Democrats Knew of Foley, Why Were They Silent?
"We need Bloggers to find out the dirty work behind everything. Foley is guity of being a disgusting sleezebag and should be prosecuted if he's guilty but the Democrats knew about this and sat on it until the 2006 elections."
 
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Older info, reverse chronological order:
 

FLASHBACK 2002: The Group Behind the Attacks on Bush (AmericanFamilyVoices.org)

Is Gay Activist Mark Rogers Behind The Foley “Outing”?

October 3rd, 2006

In a post at his Blogactive website, Michael Rogers seems to want to take a bow for his noble work:

Good news... Bad news...

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Well the good news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is finally getting it. I called their Director of Communications, Bill Burton, before the Foley story broke to let him know about Foley (and another case) were coming down the pike. While Burton promised to have someone email or return my call and didn't, I am glad he followed up on my call and was ready on Friday to come out of the gate running.

The bad new is they are still not paying enough attention... There are others within reach... If the Democrats would only fight half as hard as the Republicans.

I posted comments at the DCCC website on the Foley entry. Not only do their promises of returned calls and emails never come to fruition, but now they are deleting my comments from their blog, The Stakeholder.

Luckily the comments were cached before they axed them.

Here's the one I put up at 9:55pm:

Here's the one I put up at 10:02pm:

Well, at least they are paying attention.

And how telling it is that the Stakeholder, the homepage of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) would delete his posts.

Mr. Rogers and his friends have been on this mission for several years now.

From a two year old article in the gay advocacy giveaway, the Washington (DC) Blade:

Blade Caption: Florida Congressman Mark Foley (R) has vowed to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment, but gay activist John Aravosis said he decided to out the congressman anyway because Foley supports the re-election of President Bush.

Mikulski and Foley become newest congressional targets as FMA vote nears

By ADRIAN BRUNE
Friday, July 09, 2004

... Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, [are] the two men loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill. As the date nears for a Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would ban gay marriages in the Constitution, Rogers said the outings have picked up steam — from 13 documented offices to nearly 20 currently on a target list provided by Rogers to the Blade.

In addition to Tolman, Rogers and Aravosis, working in tandem but not together, claimed in the last week to have outed via the Web Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida...

A spokesperson for Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) also declined to comment after Aravosis specifically asserted that Foley is gay on his Web site last week...

Aravosis continued to defend the outing campaign.

“An acquaintance of mine, a Southern Republican, worked for a member who was not anti-gay personally, but he signed on to the amendment [banning gay marriage],” Aravosis said. “My friend quit. I’m basically saying, ‘You know what, you have a choice. It’s 2004. You can work for pro-gay Democrats, and now you can work for pro-gay Republicans.’” ...

Over in the House, Republican Mark Foley said in March that he would vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment — one week after his spokesperson said he would not take a position on the measure until it came up for a House vote.

Despite Foley’s FMA opposition, Aravosis purported to out Foley as well, taking him to task for supporting President Bush, who endorsed the measure late last winter. Labeling Foley as “our latest closeted gay hypocrite,” Aravosis said Foley made the list for putting politics ahead of his own community by “whoring for an anti-gay president.” ...

Florida Congressman Mark Foley (R) has vowed to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment, but gay activist John Aravosis said he decided to out the congressman anyway because Foley supports the re-election of President Bush.

Foley responded to the reports by initiating a telephone press conference among non-gay Florida media and called discussion about his sexual orientation “revolting.” He declined at that time to answer questions about his sexual orientation and subsequently abandoned his bid for the Senate, citing concerns over his father’s health.

Aravosis said he obtained the latest information about the five-term congressman from Foley’s former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham.

Fordham, who is gay, headed up fund-raising efforts for Foley’s aborted Senate campaign and is now the finance director for one of the remaining GOP primary candidates in that race: Mel Martinez, George W. Bush’s former Housing & Urban Development secretary. Martinez has come out in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment.

Fordham denied ever speaking with Aravosis and told the Blade, “I just don’t discuss Congressman Foley’s personal life with reporters, but I’m not sure what their motive is in outing him, other than to draw attention to themselves. Foley has a good track record with gay issues and opposes the FMA.” ...

It seems very probable that one or all of the gentlemen mentioned in this article have had a hand in the recent revelations about Mark Foley.

It is equally likely that one or all of them is behind the anonymous website, StopSexPredators.blogspot.com, that first produced Foley's alleged emails out of the blue.

Michael Rogers started his own website, blogactive.com, back in July of 2004.

Oddly enough, there was a significant drop-off in his activities there after July of this year, which is when StopSexPredators.blogspot.com was begun.

From Alexa:

 

Mike Rogers should probably be at the top of the list of suspects.

22 Comments »
 
Who is really calling for the Republican leadership to resign?--The lunatics have NO clue what they have exposed. Their homosexual agenda has taken a HIT big time if the are trying to make Speaker Hastert responsible for Foley's acts.
 
 
 
 

Demotrap?

Posted in Politics, Crime, Law at 3:05 pm by nbpundit

Monday, October 02, 2006
Foleygate: What Stunk Like a Rat, Was a Democ-Rat!

THE PROOF THAT DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WERE AFTER MARK FOLEY SINCE 2004!!

From a March 2005 post at BlogActive

Sister Toldjah leads you down the path to Macsmind.
**You must read the whole thing.**

Macsmind put together this link to the Foley memos:

Where'd all the "It's Just Sex" Democrats Go

'Gay' activist held info about Foley During campaign to 'out' lawmakers

If they want to protect the children from homos, why teach it in public schools?

Is Foley This Cycle's "DUI?"

There may be a possibilty that the one who runs Blog Active.com, and the one who runs Stop Sex Predators may be one in the same. That may be Mike Rogers, the infamous Gay Republican Outer.
 

#214 nigella  10/2/2006 02:51PM PDT
 

I went onto Rushs' web-site and his theory is that the Clinton smear machine has been re-activated. Good old Carvel and friends. When I read it it started to click,Theres the Clinton tirade on Fox that led to the attacks on Fox for being right-wing. The leaks of the terror estimate report, the slimeimg of Jennie Pirro in New York and now this. Don't get me wrong, I think Foley is a sleeze, but all this so close to the election.Coincidence? I think not.

Foleygate: What Stunk Like a Rat, Was a Democ-Rat!

THE PROOF THAT DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WERE AFTER MARK FOLEY SINCE 2004!!

From a March 2005 post at BlogActive

Sister Toldjah leads you down the path to Macsmind.
**You must read the whole Macsmind update.**

Macsmind put together this link to the Foley memos:

They’re may be a possibilty that the one who runs Blog Active.com, and the one who runs Stop Sex Predators may be one in the same. That may be Mike Rogers, the infamous Gay Republican Outer.

Via Rogers site:

Well the good news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is finally getting it. I called their Director of Communications, Bill Burton, to let him know that the Foley thing (and another case) were coming down the pike. While Burton promised to have someone email or return my call and didn’t, I am glad he followed up on my call and was ready on Friday to come out of the gate running.

The bad new is they are still not paying enough attention… There are others within reach… If the Democrats would only fight half as hard as the Republicans”

Rogers is miffed that the DCCC has been deleting his posts. No wonder as even they sense a major backfire if it get’s out that this was all a “Gay Republican Outing” that netted more than it bargained for.
Now... Get this posting at Blog Active back on March 4, 2005:

(Click to Enlarge)

Here are the threats and plans to destroy Mark Foley printed at a Leftist-haters blog back in March of 2005:

Birds of a Feather
Two haters, one picture:
Gay-bashing straight man John Ashcroft and Gay-bashing gay man Mark Foley

This is United States Congressman Mark Foley
He voted this week for a law to allow hate groups to fire gay and lesbian people at will
The law he is supporting will overrule ANY local laws on the matter.
MARK FOLEY IS GAY
MARK FOLEY WILL BE EXPOSED FOR THE HYPOCRITE HE IS THROUGH A MAIL AND INTERNET CAMPAIGN THAT WILL REACH INTO EVERY HOME IN HIS DISTRICT.

THIS MAN IS A DANGER

TO GAY MEN AND LESBIANS

DO NOT SLEEP WITH THIS MAN
IF HE CRUISES YOU IN THE BATHROOMS OF CONGRESS,IGNORE HIM!
IF HE HITS ON YOU AT THE NEXT REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONIGNORE HIM!

THE NATION MUST BE WARNED ABOUT THIS
ABOMINATION IN THE GAY COMMUNITY

Please to support our educational and advertising campaign against this right wing hypocrite, click here and join the battle for true lesbian and gay liberation.

**COMING MONDAY ON BLOGACTIVE:** The entire Mark Foley story...Read about my recorded discussions with staff members and former staff members of Rep. Mark Foley...Read about how Mark Foley hit on men less than half his age at the Republican convention...Read about how Mark Foley voted to remove protections from those same young gay men and lesbians and anyone else violating a local discrimination law!!!
And back in 2004 there were open threats in the Washington Blade by Rogers targeting Foley:

20 offices said targeted
Not likely, say Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, the two men loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill. As the date nears for a Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would ban gay marriages in the Constitution, Rogers said the outings have picked up steam — from 13 documented offices to nearly 20 currently on a target list provided by Rogers to the Blade.

In addition to Tolman, Rogers and Aravosis, working in tandem but not together, claimed in the last week to have outed via the Web Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida.

While Tolman confirmed he is gay, the Mikulski’s office refused to comment on speculation she is a lesbian, something Aravosis implied last week on his site.

A spokesperson for Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) also declined to comment after Aravosis specifically asserted that Foley is gay on his Web site last week.

Both members of Congress have long been the subject of rumors about their sexual orientation.
Foley abused his position and may have been involved in criminal activity.

Democrats knew this for over a year.
With 6 weeks before the November elections, they broke the dam loose!


More from March 2005 at BlogActive...

From the gay outing website on March 22, 2005:

blogACTIVE.com has confirmed with three separate sources that, in fact, US Rep. Mark Foley is a gay man. Foley has voted to support discrimination against gay men and lesbians on more than one occasion.

A source has confirmed with blogACTIVE.com that Foley lives a practically an out life at his Florida residence, often seen entertaining gay men, some of whom the source described as "close to underage."

...I've thought hard about what kind of TAKE ACTION would work, but there is really is none right now. Everyone already knows Foley's a self hating closet case. When we get closer to the mid-term elections, I am sure more will surface.
And, there you have it!

Others in the Game: La Shawn Barber, Passionate America, Michelle Malkin, HotAir, Just One Minute, Flopping Aces, Right Wing Nuthouse, Dan Riehl has an update Powerline, Instapundit, Ace, RedState, Wizbang, TigerHawk, American Thinker...
Gay Patriot weighs in.

(Let me clarify, there are 2 issues here: There is the sexual predator issue that is abominable, and then there is the skunk issue, those that waited with their reports while children were in jeopardy until 6 weeks outside of an election to release their "news"!)

Previously:
The Foley Fallout
Foley Fallout: What We Know Now
Foleygate! Altered Images! What's Going On Here?
Foley and the Blame Game -- The fact that he was hounded out of office and personally destroyed by the Democrats show that they despise gays - one of their own key constituencies.
 
Mark Foley Emails Altered?

Now the Mark Foley story is getting weird. (Yes, I know it’s already weird, but this is weirder.) There doesn’t seem to be any doubt that Foley’s guilty of making advances to teenage boys—after all, he resigned—but there’s something very odd about the email messages being circulated by media and left wing blogs: Foleygate: Mark Foley emails altered.

More at Flopping Aces.

UPDATE at 10/2/06 9:07:44 am:

More links and background at Michelle Malkin: Predators in the Houselink: 173 comments  "Like it or not, it is legal for a 16 year old to have sex in most states with either sex.   The issue is whether Foley was doing it on taxpayer time/dollars.  Rush is interviewing Jim Geraghty of TKS at National Review. He doesn't think the Foley thing will do any real damage to Republicans in terms of keeping the House. He believes the "culture of corruption" meme is a big loser for the Dems, and security trumps all. I tend to agree, but I'm afraid I may be underestimating the stupidity of the American people. "

I'm not going to post the contents of Foley's explicit email here, because LGF is not a porn site. If you want to read it, just click on the link. WARNING: it contains explicit sexual material.

What Did The Media Know About Foley And How Long Did They Know It?

Pro-Homosexual Political Correctness Sowed Seeds for Foley Scandal

Foley, C.R.E.W., Soros and Jason Leopold (TruthOut)

Drip, Drip, Drip of Foley Messages Part of Calculated Campaign?

Page Disputes Warning About Rep. Foley (HMMMMM! Verrry Interesting!)


Did The Left Hide A Crime For Political Gain?

Does Anybody In Our Media Remember Gerry Studds?

October 1st, 2006

For some reason I just feel the need to remember that great Democrat Congressmen and rights pioneer Gerry Studds.

From Wikipedia:

Gerry StuddsPhoto

Gerry Eastman Studds (born May 12, 1937) is a retired American politician, born in Mineola, New York. He served as a Democratic Congressman for Massachusetts from 1973 until 1996. He was the first openly homosexual member of the US Congress and, more generally, the first openly gay national politician in the US.

Congressional page sex scandal

Studds is remembered chiefly for his role in the Congressional page sex scandal in 1983, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with a minor – in Studds's case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page.

During the course of the House Ethics Committee's investigation, Studds publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, a disclosure that, according to a Washington Post article, "apparently was not news to many of his constituents."

Studds stated in an address to the House, "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public or private life, let alone both, but these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as I am, both an elected public official and gay."

As the House read their censure of him, Studds turned his back and ignored them.

Later, at a press conference with the former page standing beside him, the two stated that what had happened between them was nobody's business but their own.

Studds was re-elected five more terms after the censure...

Maybe the change of season is just making me nostalgic. I'm also strangely reminded of that equally heroic Congressman Barney Frank:

http://cache.wonkette.com/politics/frankhand.jpg

I guess some Congressman are more equal than others.

Especially Democrats.

16 Comments » "And we are told that homosexuals are normal, and that we should not be worried about them being in our schools, etc.,. Then, how come it seems that they are always looking or turning to young boys?"" There is something really rank about the smell of this. Let’s look at the facts………….
The emails and IMs were given to ABC by CREW (Citizens for Ethics) a far left wing organization funded by surprise, surprise….. George Soros. And the head of CREW is none other than a Clinton staffer and worked for that bastion of Islamic rights, John Conyers (D-Michigan). CREW was implement in going after Tom DeLay.
Now it seems that CREW has possession of these emails and IM for a long time. But chose this particular time to release them to ABC (who is not admitting that it was CREW that give them up)."
 

Foley setup?--Correct. In other words, people knew there was a predator out there, but they failed to report him immediately - preferring to wait until a time that created a political opportunity.--Former page: We knew about Foley 'for years'

Foley--Anybody who is surprised at this needs to recalibrate their radar. Timing of the release of damaging information is critical. The old media campaigns for the Democrats. They generically attack 90% of the time, but save the really damaging individual stuff to affect elections. Of course they've been sitting on this for the right time to release it. Politics is a full contact bare knuckles enterprise.--pdf format at ABC Exclusive: Foley Explicit IMs

Internal Review of Contacts with the Office of the Speaker Regarding the Cong. Mark Foley Matter--ABC News along with the entire MSM is always working with the DNC to subvert the GOP right before election-time. They did it to Bush 41 4 days before the 1992 election with an Iran-Contra-Weinberger "surprise" (which turned out to be meaningless but then cost Bush 4%). They did it to then-Gov. Bush with the sudden DUI release one week before the 2000 elections (which cost Bush 5%). They are doing it again here, and I think there will be one more "surprise" before October is done.


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To: backhoe

Bookmarked... Wow, you've compiled some GREAT research here! I hope you've passed it on to the conservative media. Thanks for your hard work.


61 posted on 10/05/2006 2:01:27 AM PDT by demkicker (democrats, terrorists, Powell, McCain, Graham & Collins are intimate bedfellows)
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Thanks for looking- I have more to post, soon, and I'll never catch up with the replies ( and I have a yellow jacket nest to get exterminated, so the Real World is dragging me offline for a while )-- but I appreciate the comments and added links.


62 posted on 10/05/2006 3:24:31 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: All
http://www.instapundit.com/

A BIG FOLEYGATE MASTURGATE ROUNDUP, at Pajamas Media.

Plus, an open secret? And a look at the GOP playbook:

And a look at the blog that started it all. UPDATE: Hmm: "Meanwhile, does anyone think it is ironic that so-called progressives who excoriated eavesdropping on terrorists are feasting on the publication of supposedly confidential email and IMs? You can forget about privacy. It no longer exists, if it ever did."

GAY PATRIOT says that Democrats are descending into "sexual McCarthyism" in the wake of Foleygate, circulating lists of Republican Hill staffers who are presumed to be gay. "I am not surprised that this is where we are headed. But my question is…. why have our national gay organizations (HRC, Log Cabin, NGLTF) not stepped in to stop this witchhunt which originated on the Gay Left in the first place? I think we know the answer."

UPDATE: Eric Scheie writes on when "outing" isn't enough. "Who'd have ever expected to see gays and antigays rejoicing together?"

I guess it's more of that strange-bedfellows stuff.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Not FoleyGate, MasturGate: "This may well be the reverse Monica of the new century; the first time that a remote hand-job has had a hand, so to speak, in bringing down a government. . . . Coming from a party that is first and foremost about advancing gay and lesbian rights on all fronts, it seems especially shameful that -- to settle all their old scores and gripes and grievances -- they are going willing to sacrifice the lives, careers and reputations of their fellow Americans."

MORE: It boils down to "Where were the Republican Taliban when we needed them?"

Foley Scandal: Cybersex Between Two Adults?

If what Passionate America claims to have discovered is accurate, the page to whom Mark Foley sent explicit instant messages was 18 years old at the time: Meet Jordan Edmund One Mark Foley Instant Messenger.

UPDATE at 10/4/06 5:33:11 pm:

This is now the headline at Drudge Report.

UPDATE at 10/4/06 6:02:39 pm:

Allahpundit emails to say there are PDFs of an IM exchange from February 2, 2003. The page in question apparently turned 18 on February 23, 2003.

Does anybody but me think this is the stupidest, most insanely overblown scandal yet?

UPDATE at 10/4/06 6:23:03 pm:

Still there’ll be more: The Bogus Blog Behind Foley’s Fall. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 439 comments "So some Dhims have been sitting on this story for 3 years. Then it gets put in circulation 5 weeks before the election. In the past, Dhims were "smart" enough to wait until days before an election. (TANG, DUI, etc)." "This ranks as one of the most amateuristic and pathetic smear jobs I've ever seen in politics."

#298 Dave the.....  10/4/2006 07:40PM PDT
 

Here are some reasons not to let Dems control congress:

Judges: Do we need more Ruth Buzzie Ginsberg ACLU lower the age of consent to 12 types in their?

Unions: Instead of voting by ballet, the Dems want to change the law so they only have to have employees sign a card. So you get a knock at your door some night. "Hey there Dave, I brought your card over for you to sign. I'd hate to have something bad happen to you so you'd better sign" (I used to live in a union town and the old stereotypes are still valid)

Taxes: See the dow. See the unemployment rate. See the tax revenues. See all three go bad with Dem tax increases

Entitlements: You think Bush is bad now. Bush and the Repulicans spent $122,000,000,000 on Katrina, and the Dems say it isn't nearly enough.

Foley Won't Depress GOP Turnout

Foley-Istook campaigns: Two Levels of Blackmail involved?

Worst October Suprise EVER--Did anybody see the hysterical Larry Kudlow on CNBC Wednesday at 5 PM? He still thinks the scandal is on. He knew nothing of what the bloggers have been reporting.

Welcome to the Internet, A Tutorial for Reporters - The Old Media is older than we thought.

CBS News reporting That House Republicans Interfered With FBI Investigation of Foley
 
Perhaps the Democrats are having a change of heart?
 
HLI Responds to Reports that Foley was Victim of Sexual Molestation by Clergyman

Istook aide may be victim in page scandal ("Victim" Hires Major Defense Lawyer?)

Longtime Republican was source of e-mails (Rumors, rumors everywhere)--

'KILL BILL' (THE CLINTON-FOLEY NEXUS: A THEORY)

ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER; FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD

GayPatriot:STOP THE GAY STAFFER WITCHHUNT(Gays in Panic Over Foley Backlash!!)--So ... let me get this straight (no pun intended). .. the democrats - WHO CLAIM TO BE THE PARTY OF DIVERSITY - and support a homosexual agenda for our schools... are outing all the gay people they know in govt - regardless of whether they are dem or repub...


63 posted on 10/05/2006 3:34:32 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: backhoe

YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!


64 posted on 10/05/2006 3:55:46 AM PDT by beyond the sea ( The Shadow of Your Smile --- Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
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To: devolve

Great post.


65 posted on 10/05/2006 3:57:18 AM PDT by beyond the sea ( The Shadow of Your Smile --- Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
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To: PhiKapMom; onyx; kcvl

pingeroo ............


66 posted on 10/05/2006 3:59:12 AM PDT by beyond the sea ( The Shadow of Your Smile --- Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
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To: beyond the sea

Thanks for the pings.


67 posted on 10/05/2006 4:00:04 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: backhoe
Backhoe, you carry a heavy load.

THANKS!

68 posted on 10/05/2006 4:00:46 AM PDT by beyond the sea ( The Shadow of Your Smile --- Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
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To: ExtremeUnction
Agreed. Politics is a game, and you don't always win. There are no good options here. The least of the evils is dumping Hastert and then moving on, letting this thing slip from the news cycle. There are still over five weeks left until the election.

Frankly, the collection of, uh, stuff posted here bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the collection of, uh, stuff that the 9/11 conspiracists post.

69 posted on 10/05/2006 4:08:30 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: backhoe

WOW...great source post. Bookmarked and bumped!


70 posted on 10/05/2006 5:18:35 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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Thanks for looking.


71 posted on 10/05/2006 5:33:04 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: Soul Seeker
I guarentee Rove would NEVER sit on info about someone as sick as Foley to use in elections.

LOL! Ask you doctor for a refill of prozac...

72 posted on 10/05/2006 5:39:31 AM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/004100.html
When "outing" isn't enough
it is hard to deny the sweet, sweet justice of Republicans being politically damaged by a lurid sex scandal in Washington.

-- Glenn Greenwald.

Yeah, and it's also hard to deny the irresistible nature of the Foley "pedophile sex scandal." Were I working for Bob Casey, I'd advise him to scour the record for every photograph taken of Rick Santorum with Foley. Similar photos could of course supply last minute hit pieces for every Democrat running for Congress unless the Republicans treat this as the hardball operation that it is, and do the same thing. (As Glenn Reynolds says, "it's starting.")

The problem with politics is that watching these things happen is as predictable as it is frustrating (especially if you've seen it coming).

Glenn Reynolds also links Gateway Pundit's speculations about why Michael Rogers and John Aravosis -- both specialists in that noxious invasion of privacy called "outing" -- kept so quiet for so long about Congressman Foley's penchant for male teenage pages:

Radical Gay Rights Activists held on to information about Representative Foley for months and years. These "Rights Activists" knew that representative Foley had relationships with "young men less than half his age." They did their own investigation on Foley. They even flew in their sources in to be interviewed about the Representative. They shared this information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. They held on to the information for over a year. They wrote about how they would break the story at midterm elections.

But, the radical gay activists and democrats never thought about the safety of the teens who were at risk!

How true. But how loudly they complain that the nation's youth are at risk!

As Gateway Pundit says, it's not as if their agenda wasn't made clear over a year agoActivists held on to information about Representative Foley for months and years. These "Rights Activists" knew that representative Foley had relationships with "young men less than half his age." They did their own investigation on Foley. They even flew in their sources in to be interviewed about the Representative. They shared this information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. They held on to the information for over a year. They wrote about how they would break the story at midterm elections. As Gateway Pundit says, it's not as if their agenda wasn't made clear over a year ago The "self hating closet case" stuff is critical to understanding this outing mentality. In 2004, Bill Clinton accused a gay Republican of "self-loathing" because he opposed Hillary Clinton... UPDATE: Drudge links to David Corn's post about a thing called "The List": MORE: Via PJM, Fausta has more on the outrageous double standard, while Bruce at Gay Patriot has a great post on the Gay GOP Witchhunt:  Tom Maguire's dead-on analysis, and this post!

Read it all here:

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/004100.html


73 posted on 10/05/2006 5:47:07 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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They'll Regret It ("We all know this kind of scandal isn't just a Republican problem")
 
Worst October Surprise, EVER--I told you so. (Not you personally, but Freepers). When this starts to wash out, you're going to be amazed.
1) There are FAR more Dem perverts in DC than Republican perverts (and I don't doubt we have a few). Very soon, it will be the DEMS screaming to let this go, to just move on, to bury it. MARK MY WORDS.
2) You heard it hear first: I think, before this all washes out, you're going to see some of these perverts linked back to Bubba's administration, then the Dems are going to be screaming that it's a "dirty trick" to damage Der Schlickmeister's rep.

74 posted on 10/05/2006 6:15:34 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: YaYa123
Certainly, when Democrat Stubbs was caught seducing male interns, no one turned the story into an attack on Tip O'Neill. "

Exactly

Also note how most all the dems are avoiding the whole Stubbs case and how dems applauded Stubbs

They are avoiding all these questions like the plague

75 posted on 10/05/2006 6:33:41 AM PDT by Mo1 (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - BECOME A MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: meandog
No Republican is defending Foley's behavior.

Democrats have done much worse. Democrat politicians invariably circled the wagons, defended the transgressor AND the behavior, and attacked all critics and accusers with barrage after barrage of propaganda.

Remember these Democrat propaganda catchphrases?

"Character doesn't matter."
"Everybody does it."
"It's not really sex."
"Private morality has nothing to do with public behavior."
This Foley episode is merely the latest in a long list of

DEMOCRAT Dirty Tricks!
Every time you think the Democrats could not sink any lower:
SURPRISE!!!
And whenever possible, there's always a big

NOVEMBER SURPRISE!!!

DEMOCRAT DIRTY TRICKS 101!!!

76 posted on 10/05/2006 6:55:18 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Recovering environmentalist.)
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To: backhoe

bump


77 posted on 10/05/2006 7:02:45 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (Some pray for peace; I pray for the VICTORY that will ensure it.)
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To: Savage Beast
Dude, no reason to Shout at me! I know all about the tricks the Dims play but, make no mistake, GOP players play them too...it's called Politics!
78 posted on 10/05/2006 7:09:24 AM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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To: backhoe
The alphabet whoredom of democrat sycophancy media has outed itself as ONLY servants to anything democrats choose to sling at Republicans, lying with abandon and mischaracterizing purposely to create scandal while maintaining what they know to be lies. America is in deep trouble this election cycle ... leftist societal engineering media bastards are working overtime to destroy this nation so it can be remade in the leftist image. If conservatives do not vote this cycle, they will deserve the revolution to follow since they, the people, the sovereigns, will have abdicated to the degenerate party which defends death and mayhem as empowerment schemes for their promotion.
79 posted on 10/05/2006 7:19:15 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Mo1; YaYa123
I know it's Powerline's mistake, but the name is Gerry Studds. (Incidentally, "Gerry" in this case is pronounced "Gary" for reasons that elude me!)
80 posted on 10/05/2006 7:19:31 AM PDT by maryz
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