The page was 18 at the time of the non-scandal. Why isn't that making news, other than on blogs and websites?
Fox News is pissing me off. They need to report facts, not their own personal opinions. Why don't the report that ABC News is backtracking now, and investigate the source of the Instant Messages, and who was the lawbreaker that leaked them to the public?
I'm a very practical person. I call it the way I see 'em. I don't believe this. It is waaay too early for this to have any material impact on polling. So far this is insider baseball stuff and really hasn't resonated in the general public in true scandal fashion. I personally think this is disinformation.
If this story is still hot next Friday then I'd say maybe, but it is just too early in this news cycle to be impacting this hard in the polls. Something is rotten in Denmark and FOX maybe smoking some bad stuff.
I don't believe it either. Voters are simply not that stupid and naive.
Again, all Foley has to do is get up there, speak like a MAN and say, I am being accused of being an accomplice to child molestation. HOW DARE THE DEMOCRATS DO THIS. If I had know about the vile IM's, not only would I have had Foley resign immediately, but I would have insisted on prosecution. This is an attack on my character, and I WILL NOT HAVE IT.
We don't have the poll. We don't have the methology, And we know the polster that produced this poll is the one that told Republicans to cancel appearances with hastert days ago. This polster has an agenda and I want the breakdown of the poll RIGHT NOW IF it exists.
50 seats? Yeah right.
I think Fox is overblowing this. But we should get the word out that, while Repubs do have their perverts and other evil people, we force them out of office, while the Dems hold theirs up as paragons of virtue and do their best to get them re-elected.
The dateline is November 5, 2006.
Umm..If people vote for Dems or stay home on this issue over say Security of our nation, etc then they deserve the ass reaming they are going to get. PERIOD.
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| I noticed that the stories by Fox news and the other MSM folks always state a "Pollster", with no name given. Could this pollster have an axe to grind against Hastert? "Fox is reporting that internal Repub polls indicate..." I hope internal pollsters don't have axes to grind. |
Thanks but I'm not buying it. Return to sender. :0)
Ailes has moved on. I'm not sure who the new boss is, but my bet is its a lefty.
It seems the dems aren't spinning this as Republican perverts in Congress. IT seems they are trying to spin it as a Republican coverup of a congressional pedophile. The idea of a cover up, as bogus as we know it to be, is what is getting the general voter upset. The dems are starting to succeed in framing this debate as to one of Republican corruption and cover up, not of inappropriate behavior on the part of one congressman. It then becomes a catch-22 for the leadership. Do something and you aren't doing enough or you are only doing it because you've been exposed. Don't do anything and you look like you really are covering something up.
Fox News is just as scandal mongering as the rest of them. They have blown this story all out of proportion. If Hassert resigns, we truly ARE sunk. I am getting sick and tired of our leaders giving up seats to the dimocraps. We need some spine, bad.
I don't doubt that a 'Publican pollster reported worries about hastert; lots of people have been tired of him for quite some time & it isn't particularly a result of this latest scandal. (Following right behind the collapse of the Fitzmas celebrations and right before an election).
Fox's programming of late seems to feature one of the news readers' standing up republican positions (as a question) and allowing a couple of dem mouthpieces to denounce them. That's certainly what I've been seeing on Foley; Edie gets worked up and the guests go right ahead with their speeches.
JMHO
Maybe someday the GOP will grow a f_______ set of balls and learn to fight back.
OK I am once again waving the Bullshit Flag.
Sorry, this is having no effect outside of the beltway, or on sites like FR where the sky is falling crowd always freaks out at the least little thing.
Here are the results of my poll. I have talked to over 30 people so far this week (Family, coworkers, friends) -- all of these people are intelligent and INFORMED professionals, most in the US Air Force, Computer Information Industry or Medical..
The results of said informal poll :
NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAD HEARD OF OR KNEW WHO MARK FOLEY WAS! NONE! ZERO! ZIP! NOT A SAUSAGE!
WHen I explained what was happening every single one of them had a reaction of "SO?", and if they did have a comment it was on the lines of "HE resigned? Good. Glad he wasn;t my congressman"
IOW - Out here in the HEART of REDSTATE AMERICA this is having absolutely no effect what-so-ever.
Spare me, Fox is now doing some round table BS crap for this bogus overplayed story.