Right now everyone's confused about when this guy was 18, when the IM's was sent, if there were other Pages that Foley also IM'd.
I'm betting here, using the good common sense God gave me and what keeps me one of the little people, that Foley was a shrewd operator. He likely knew about age limits but he did want to recruit future lovers. Thus those "red flag" emails and requests for birth dates.
If I'm right, Foley's big "crime" was using the congressional Page pool for lovers when they came of age. Surely Foley's not a stupid guy. The Dems want the silly American public to hear the words "Republican" and "homosexual", "underage" and "cybersex" emanating from all this media hysteria and well I don't know what the hell they want. Any fool, even us busy Americans out here in la-la land, can see this is a pre-election frenzy.
The Dems will never get us dummies to accept THEM as the party of chasteness and purity. Remember, THEY had Bill Clinton and just can't shake him off. Americans sure won't buy that every damn Republican with an "R" for a party affiliation should up and quit. The Dems, as always, have overplayed their hand.
Republicans need to handle this and so far they're doing a lousy job.
Well said.
The Republicans got caught looking in the other direction and are having to play catch up. However, in Washington and the media if you ignore something long enough a new story will take its place.
Well, well, Fishtalk, a very fine summation. Bravo!