Run Away!!!!
 

"I strongly believe that I am an alcoholic and have accepted the need for immediate treatment for alcoholism and other behavioral problems," Foley, a Republican, said in a statement, Roth told the AP.

You guys think this story has strong enough legs to usurp the GOP in November? Has Hastert dug a hole for himself?


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I think it's another nail in the coffin. But this fucking vampire has a crowbar. Another nail might not be enough.

God, they have to use that in a political ad!

Let's see what you support when you vote repubican....

Anybody? Beuhler? Ok, I'll start.

When you vote repubican, you support a party that claims the higher moral ground, claims to be anti-pedophilia, anti-gay (although they phrase spin it to only be "gay marriage"), and pro law-and-order. What they really do is protect one of their own who may have attempted to break the law, is morally inferior, is gay, and is a pedophile.

Next!

Vampiros
 

Yeah, the constituency of God's Own Party has a problem with selective myopia. Just another page in a long story.:neutral:

Apparently they kept it secret for a year because they were afraid of being accused of gay-bashing.

They would have been "accused of gay bashing" because "the original notes had no sexual innuendo" ???

I didn't say it made any sense.

There's bigger problem with the "explanation", however. The fact that "it was a male-male relationship" is irrelevant. The fact that the kid was sixteen is the issue.

Foley + A Woman = (outside marriage) turns off fundies a little
Foley + A Man = turns off fundies a lot
Foley + A Man Who Works for Foley = inappropriate, ethics issue
Foley + A Woman Who Works for Foley = inappropriate, ethics issue
Foley + A Child = crime. Boy, girl? Irrelevant.

I was, uh, quoting Gingrich.Good point. All-around shoddy spin...

I know, I was just disavowing any support for what Gingrich said.

Fair enough. It would be like having dog poo on your shoes if you hadn't done that.

Have any of you read the "transcripts" of the IM/text exchanges between Foley and the kid? I don't usually indulge my purient impulses, but this one got through. It is sickening. The headline on the ABC site warns Reader Discretion Strongly Advised. I agree.

link to transcript

My first reaction to this story on Friday afternoon was to say wait wait wait. Let's just see what happens. Innocent until proven guilty. I still feel that way, but I must say the evidence piling up is very damaging. And disgusting.

It will be interesting to see what effect this will have on the elections. There was no time to pull Foley's name off the ballot, so all votes for him will go to a substitute, Joe Negron.

This means that the people who vote Foley on the ballot are:

Those who know they are electing Negron and approve of him.
Those who know they are electing someone who will replace Foley and prefer any Republican to Democrat Tim Mahoney.
Those who think they are reelecting Foley even knowing what he is accused of and still prefer him to a Democrat.
Those who are completely clueless about the whole affair and/or are just pulling the Republican lever.

Of course having established themselves as the party who wanted to impeach a president over lying over a consensual affair with an adult woman, being accused of covering up the alleged solicitation of minors does bring things into perspective.

Special prosecutor. anyone?


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Looking on the bright side, he's a shoe-in for the NAMBLA vote.

Isn't gay pedophelia okay if you're a God-fearing, moral Right-Winger? I mean, its less dirty when they do it, right?

Well, see, anybody who looked back at Foley's actions was supposed to turn into a pillar of salt. So those reporters who broke the story and everyone who read about it or saw it on TV will soon be in a box with a little girl carrying an umbrella on the label. Just you wait - any second, now. In just another moment.:eyebrow:

Note, just for accuracy, this isn't pedophilia. 16 is post-pubescent.

If the kid was 16, it's actually hebephilia or ephebophilia, and while icky, legal in many jurisdictions. People constantly get that wrong.

I was reading Joe Scarborough's response to all of this and he says this:

Can anyone fact check this?

From another source:
Wikipedia on Gerry Studds. Wikipedia on Dan Crane, Republican having sex with female page.

Why do I ever pay attention to politics! Its all kinds of fucked up...I'm holeing myself back up in my room now.

RL: it's just spin. But he's right, the Dems just need to let the Republicans dig themselves a hole.

First, his name is Studds, so what do you expect.
Second, it shows that Democrats are better at picking cooperative underage gay partners, who won't rat them out. Yay Democrats.

I think it's interesting that repubicans won't rat out each other when they are abusing authority or the law, but when it comes to sex....

Actually some of the Republicans were informed that Foley had issues

see full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...rss_nation&g=1

Damnit I forgot!

Now they're turning on each other. It's like watching sharks in a feeding frenzy when there isn't anything but blood in the tank.