Worst October Surprise, EVERPosted on 10/04/2006 9:22:29 PM PDT by knews_hound
Worst October Surprise, EVER
It had all the earmarks of a classic Democrat Party plan to depress Republican turnout. Take a barely disguised homosexual Republican Congressman, add salacious electronic messages that included masturbation, sex and other lurid details, push it to their eager and willing accomplices in the Main Stream Media (MSM) right before an election and as quick as you can say LBJ an instant scandal is created.
The only problem it seems, is that in today’s world of media, with data available to the whole world that was heretofore available only to a select few, the plan didn’t work out quite the way they had expected. An enterprising blogger has done some elemental detective work and discovered that the entire incident is nearly exactly the opposite of what was first reported.
Rather than a case of a pedophile Congressman stalking young men in the corridors of power, it instead turns out to be a case of a closeted homosexual nurturing a relationship with a young man, and making sexual advances once he became an adult. A relationship by the way that the young man, if he felt threatened or chose not to continue, could have ended at any time.
An older homosexual man seeking a relationship with a young man? Who would have thought?
Rather than the Pedophile Politician script we were first being fed, we now know that the real story is far less than we have been lead to believe.
As it turns out, although the young man in question was indeed a Page, was indeed befriended by Congressman Foley and did have sexual discussions with him; it seems everything was perfectly legal. As a signatory of a Bill outlawing Internet sex between adults and minors, Foley was perfectly aware of the legal boundaries and seems to have taken great care to not cross that fine line until the young man became a legal adult.
All I can remember is the Democrats mantra. That the troglodyte Republicans were obsessed by sex between consenting adults. That homosexuals in close working relationships with young people, especially young men, is a good and healthy thing. That some forms of sex, aren’t sex. That what two consenting adults do or say behind closed doors is their business. That intercepting and reading electronic communications between anyone in the US, especially those between two citizens, is never to be tolerated.
And most of all; never be judgmental.
So in the end, what do we end up with?
That the facts at hand were, yet again, revealed by an anonymous Blogger Rather (pardon the pun) that the “professional fact checkers” that the MSM routinely crows about is the death knell to the Democrats traditional scripts. Along with the infamous Texas Air National Guard documents of 2004, this latest attempt by the Democrats is not going according to plan, and I suspect it will have the same result at the Polls in November. It is, without a doubt, the worst October Surprise, EVER.
About the Writer: Patrick Godfrey lives and works in Northern California and blogs at http://knewshound.blogspot.com/ He can be reached at knewshound@yahoo.com. Feedback, criticism and pithy comments are always welcome.
"I really hope that Rove's October Suprise is better than this."
Well, if he's really got one, I hope he doesn't wait too long before pulling the trigger. And it better be a good one.
What I can't figure out is, what was with the pathetic "I was molested by a priest" news conference? Why didn't Foley just say the guy was an adult then?
Rove's October surprise will knock this story out of the news. But I can't tell you what I think it is, otherwise it won't be a surprise...lol.
See! It's bloodthirsty bastiches like you that mess things up, Mike! You forgot to set it on fire!!. How's it goin', pal?!..............FRegards
Hey, maybe this IS Rove's October surprise!
I can't tell you exactly but I heard it involves a) a trampoline, b) a bottle of vaseline, and c) a chicken.
Not just yet...lol.
didn't he promise a "surprise" in Oct of 2004 also? did it ever materialize?
And you know what's the funniest part of all? They couldn't even wait until October to spring it?!
bttt
This one really is too delicious to be accidental. Either Hillary's soldiers did it to make Dean look like an idiot - not exactly a Herculian task - or...or...
ROOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVE!!!!!
Someone needs to tell Patrick Godfrey that there are a half dozen recipients of the IMs and emails, not just this one that was 18 at the time of the cybersex chat.
This guy should give up writing and open a business splitting hairs!
Don'tcha just love it when the Dem's schemes explode without harming anyone but themselves, like a suicide bomber blowing up while taking a crap, with no one else around for miles and miles?
Yes, it is rich..what goes around truly does come around. The dims plots usually do explode in their evil little faces.
Never buy your October Bombs from ACME!
Pray for W and Our Troops
First the price of gas drops, then the Dow hits a record high, then their "October Surprise" implodes.
What's a Dim to do?
LOL!
A lot of people around here are gonna be wondering why this doesn't all go away tomorrow. Oh well.
According to whom? Can you spell C-O-N-S-P-I-R-A-C-Y? The fact is it's unclear Foley actually broke any law.
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