Posted on 10/05/2006 5:59:56 AM PDT by Quilla
It had all the earmarks of a classic Democratic Party plan to depress Republican turnout. Take a barely disguised homosexual Republican Congressman, add salacious electronic messages that included masturbation, sex and other lurid flourishes, push the story to their eager and willing accomplices in the media 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. Enterprising bloggers have done the 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 such a thing would ever happen?
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. But it seems everything was perfectly legal, if nevertheless repellant to many, including a good chunk of the GOP base whose turnout is vital in the forthcoming election. 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.
While angry values voters fulminate over Hastert’s failure to do something before the IMs came to light, 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?
A pedophile that wasn’t.
A child that was actually an adult.
The disclosure of personal electronic communications of a highly personal nature between two consenting adults revealed.
A sex scandal between a couple who never had sex.
That Democrat Congressmen can have sex with 17 year olds and get re-elected, but Republicans that talk about sex are forced to resign.
ABC news is made to look like a fool, hyping a story beyond the facts at hand.
Along with the infamous Texas Air National Guard documents of 2002, 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. Almost four weeks are left to digest the affair. Much remains to be discovered, but one thing is clear.
It is, without a doubt, the worst October Surprise, EVER.
FAMOUS IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD,
with this sentence:ABC news is made to look like a fool, hyping a story beyond the facts at hand.
heh.
In other words, this October Surprise was totally gay.
I love the smell of DemocRAT BACKFIRE in the morning!
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.
Thank-you!
Still, I smell a trap and wonder if there are not more IMs waiting to be thrown down. Surely ABC would have known this would come out. Especially when IMs specifically discussing age were released.
Interesting thread ping
Like I said in another post, I am sure this scandal was supposed to launch in a few weeks. The Woodward stuff was supposed to take center stage for a couple of weeks and then this. Clinton and company decided to launch this thing prematurely because of the backlash he took for the FOX interview and he and the administration saw his leagacy starting to go up in flames. They also saw what the economy was doing as well as gas prices. They saw this election slipping away so they hit the panic button and launched this October surprise prematurely. It is already starting to backfire on them and I don't know if they have any other big ammunition.
Rove and company have not even fired a shot yet and as soon as the radio and TV ads go out showing how kooky the Dem leadership is, the Dems are going to want to cry "uncle." GOPTV will be their worst enemy and it will become another 2002.
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GREAT read.
FYI, dems are saying that ABC has other chat im texts with other participants who were underage.
Rham Emmanuel old Clintonite and current DCCC Chair.
There are no coincidences.
Extremely well-written article!
Thanks for posting, Quilla.
The timing was WAY off - and "the Plan" has backfired...
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Great Post.
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