Posted on 10/03/2006 2:05:29 PM PDT by areafiftyone
FOLEY BOMBSHELL COMING ... FORMER CONGRESSMAN'S ATTORNEY TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.
I thought the bombshell would be that they had a page's keyboard stained with a Foley DNA splotch.
;-D
Like Bill and Monica.
The Republicans and by extension all of us here are going to be targets of the BIG PAYBACK.
We should remind them it was the lying, not the deed itself.
"Do you like gladiator movies, Johnny?"
If he did, we'll know about it..
sw
Your points are well taken, but I really don't think anyone here feels any sympathy for Mr. Foley, just frustration at the double standard we as conservatives are held to. But then again, maybe we are so very ashamed that one of our own has sunk so low.
You'll laugh even harder if you imagine Caesar's post being stated in the best Monty Python and the Holy Grail voice...
I didn't see the news conference, so can someone please give a reader's digest version please. Thanks!
Just wait and see,ok? He IS involved with this..yes..but not in the way you think!
In a political sense, is it important? No...because its a feeding frenzy that will die out when the press has something else to chew on and the Mark Foley story has run its course.
Giving them the name of the Dem and shreiking "Ah, ha! Evil Hypocritcal Democrat!" Just not important.
"It's a checkbox in the prefs."
Where? I have gone through my 'prefs' menu from top to bottom and have yet to see any reference to logging.
Lindsey Graham what.
Especially when there's Kellogg's Frosted Flakes!
Am I on the right forum? Is this the FreeRepublic of the "evil universe" like in some wierd Star Trek episode? These boys were legally underage. Period.
No I am not missing the point. I happen to know several men who were molested at age 15 and 16 by a prominent figure...Predators know how to pick kids who are not very sophisticated... they go for the boys who maybe have parents who are divorced, who need affirmation and approval and attention..Do you know any 16 year old boys ? They are not grown men... Predators like Mark Foley "groom" their prey... They don't start out coming on to them. It starts out with attention, then presents, favors... The boy ( who usually is unsure of himself, and from a troubled family and maybe doesn't have a father) is hooked.. By the time the predator moves in for the kill, the boy trusts the predator. They know on one level that something is wrong, but on another level, they're confused because the guy was their friend. This is how people like child psychiatrists, priests, high school football coaches.. 16 is not a grown men.
Everybody should go to the website of www.malesurvivor.org and read the discussion board. Plenty of men there who were molested as teenagers are talking about this scandal. If you haven't been molested, you really can't imagine what it's like. Go educate yourself on the MO's of molesters,please !
And then you add in that Foley was a powerful political figure
As a SC resident, I've been nervously waiting for Lindsay's name to come up in this mess.
sw
Not in Washington, D.C. they weren't.
Why nervously? At least that would get that RINO out of office. ;)
"Whoever had the IMs should have gone straight to the police, but they didn't."
Which Im's, the ones the page and his parents let the leadership to see or the mutually graphic ones, they have obviously withheld?
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