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Haggard accuser admits to timing allegations to influence election
Denver Rocky Mountain News ^

Posted on 11/03/2006 3:24:17 PM PST by keepitreal

Haggard accuser Michael Jones, according to today's Rocky Mountain News, timed his revelations in order to influence voters in Tuesday's election:

"Jones said he had thought about revealing his alleged affair with Haggard months ago but was advised by his attorney that he needed to gather more evidence. He said he decided to come out with his story before the election to influence voters."

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1 posted on 11/03/2006 3:24:19 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: keepitreal
Yes, I can see where a male whore will influence many voters.
sarc.....

2 posted on 11/03/2006 3:25:55 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: keepitreal
Ok, Haggard is fighting personal demons and gave this guy ammo...but this was very obvious from the get-go.

The gay agenda has gone into attack mode. Watch for it to get worse in the next couple of years.
3 posted on 11/03/2006 3:25:57 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: keepitreal

Was Haggard running for anything? Influence voters on what? I am pretty much a politics junky but I had never heard of Haggard before today.


4 posted on 11/03/2006 3:26:06 PM PST by Williams
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To: keepitreal

Like...duh.

This only strengthens my resolve to vote for the amendment to protect marriage and against the initiative to grant same-sex "spouse" benefits and status.

Did they think that a story about gay sex and meth was going to make me more tolerant or less?


5 posted on 11/03/2006 3:26:29 PM PST by monkeybrau
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To: keepitreal

I think the Dems have been planning quite a while to have all these nasty allegations revealed that probably won't be born out, but that might very likely influence the elections. I think it's a Rahm project that has been in the works for some time.


6 posted on 11/03/2006 3:27:14 PM PST by carola
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To: keepitreal
"There are two important initiatives," he said, referring to a measure that would grant same-sex couples legal protections afforded to married couples, and another that would define marriage in Colorado as a union between a man and a woman.

I think that's called a homosexual agenda. Sick F**** like this are trying to get the dems in. To hell with national security.
7 posted on 11/03/2006 3:27:22 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Williams
Neither had I. Graham or Dobson, or even tangentially Falwell or Robertson would have been huge.

This is a tempest in a teapot, imo.
8 posted on 11/03/2006 3:27:26 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: keepitreal

Air America will probably hire him to become one of their "reporters".


9 posted on 11/03/2006 3:27:41 PM PST by Argus (John French Kerry is Lt. Keefer (Fred McMurray) in THE CAINE MUTINY - somebody get Jose Ferrer.)
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To: Williams

Is the trying to influence voters in the election because Haggard is a minister and this guy thinks he can smear Christians and that will be the influence?


10 posted on 11/03/2006 3:28:00 PM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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To: keepitreal

Wonder what other timed events we'll see in the next three days...

Ya gotta love Kerry's timing tho....


11 posted on 11/03/2006 3:28:20 PM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Williams

He's been touring the country with people like James Dobson, Chuck Colson, Ann Coulter, and a host of Republican politicos trying to get the "values voters" out on election day. Solid Republicans aren't going to be influenced by this, but there are likely some others, especially if they listened to and respected Haggard's messages before all this blew up in his face.

Not all conservatives are "broken glass" Republicans.


12 posted on 11/03/2006 3:30:27 PM PST by tyke
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To: keepitreal

I must say, Kerry's timing was about perfect.


13 posted on 11/03/2006 3:31:03 PM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Let's all be Magnificent Bastards. Turn out those Republican votes!)
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To: Rennes Templar

In the mid 1990s I was asked by a well known editor and writer if there was any known profession, other than politics, that Bill Clinton could have come from. My quick answer to him was evangelism.


14 posted on 11/03/2006 3:32:17 PM PST by billhilly
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To: keepitreal

I will not vote for Haggard on Tuesday. No way. I urge all freepers to withdraw electorsl support for this man. It's the only right thing to do.


15 posted on 11/03/2006 3:32:43 PM PST by all the best
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To: Williams

I thought they were talking about the guy who wrote the song, "Okie From Muskogee."


16 posted on 11/03/2006 3:33:01 PM PST by Muleteam1
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To: Williams

Haggard has been an advocate for the marriage amendment (Amendment 43) that is on the ballot in Colorado.


17 posted on 11/03/2006 3:33:14 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: pollyannaish
I could care less if Falwell, Dobson or anyone else is a pervert, either. People must have extremely weak internal compasses if they would switch beliefs because one of their role models turns out to be (fill in the blank). Who cares? Right is right, it doesn't change with the wind.

The evangelical who is tormented by guilt and his own desires is a pretty old story. Happens again and again.

18 posted on 11/03/2006 3:36:03 PM PST by Williams
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To: keepitreal
Foley and Haggard gave up any chance of sympathy when they publicly denied liberalism. Apparently both had a weakness of character that liberalism could exploit.

Had they been liberal, then being a closet homosexual would be a badge of honor, and any who looked sideways at them would be labeled a homophobe.

Let that be a lesson to all who choose to defy the state religion.

19 posted on 11/03/2006 3:36:16 PM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: Williams

Rove the magnificent has arranged for the Saddam death sentence verdict to be read on Sunday...so we will get the last laugh for election day stories. Hang tight. Haggard won't matter, hanging Saddam will.


20 posted on 11/03/2006 3:38:19 PM PST by Diverdogz
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