"The article describes in painstaking detail how the GOP leadership took the matter very seriously, and investigated in an official manner the emails that were turned over to them and made a determination that they were weird but innocuous."
I would happy if GOP leadership simply says we investigated and we missed some stuff. Now that additional information has come forward we have dealt with it in the most vigorous manner. On the other hand, to go down the road of arguing against the behavior of Democratic operatives is redundant. More important, it commits conservatives to the track of moral relativism that we so bitterly oppose. I do wish you would think about that.
I'm not talking about moral relativism. Moral relativism is "Gerry Studds got away with bedding willing pages, so Mark Foley should get away with sending them X-rated IMs."
That's garbage. Foley deserves to be in prison, not Congress.
The issue here is that Democrats knew he was a predator and instead of doing the responsible thing, they waited until it was politically convenient to report him.
They were playing politics with people's lives.
What's worse, they developed this information solely for politics, never intending to use it to help victims.