Posted on 08/13/2004 2:07:09 AM PDT by kattracks
Don't cry for Jim McGreevey.And spare me the sappy sentiment about a brave man outing himself, then stepping aside for the good of New Jersey.
McGreevey confessed yesterday that he has been living a lie. It hasn't stopped. The real shame is that he can't bring himself to tell the whole truth even now.
Not by a long shot.
The absence of the full story from the lying Lothario won't stop the facts from coming out, however. And from what we know already, it's not a pretty picture that's emerging.
The real news here isn't that McGreevey is gay. That has been in the wind and on the Web for a long time. Now it's official.
No, I say bet the farm that the news here is that a sitting governor put his boy toy on the state payroll, at a salary of $110,000, in a job that he wasn't qualified for. And now that governor is quitting because the sordid details are about to become public and make his position untenable.
That makes this an old-fashioned corruption story, with a modern twist.
One that refutes the conventional wisdom that male politicians can survive anything except being found in bed with a dead woman or a live man.
McGreevey, in fact, could have survived a mere admission of adulterous homosexuality, as long as his wife stands by her man. He would even be applauded and admired for his honesty in many quarters.
It's the corruption that brought him down. And it's a pattern of corruption that has been revealed in an extraordinary number of ways during the Democrat's 2-1/2 years in office.
He has presided over one of the dirtiest administrations in modern times. And that's no easy feat in New Jersey!
What exactly Golan Cipel, the man reliably said to be at the heart of the case, did for his $110,000 remains a mystery, though we may find out if Cipel, as expected, files a lawsuit today charging McGreevey with sexual harassment. One thing we do know is that Cipel was not just stashed in a no-show job.
Cipel, you see, was supposed to be helping keep New Jersey safe from terrorists.
In one of the greatest acts of chutzpah in political history, McGreevey installed Cipel as the state's liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.
Perhaps McGreevey assumed that because Cipel is Israeli, he knows a lot about fighting terrorism. In fact, the 33-year-old had worked only in public relations. Those press releases will protect us!
Even as the scam hit the fan when federal officials said they couldn't share secrets with Cipel because he didn't have security clearances, McGreevey didn't take the hint. He just called Cipel a special adviser - and kept the $110,000 gravy train running.
With federal prosecutors rolling up his aides, party officials and contributors like a bunch of cheap rugs recently, it's a wonder that McGreevey didn't quit sooner. Probers have even caught McGreevey on tape saying a prearranged code word in an alleged bribe scheme, though the governor insists it was an innocent reference.
Maybe it was, but my gut tells me that all these probes were getting too close for comfort. So he waved the white flag, like many a tainted, two-bit pol before him.
And wants us to believe it's a gay thing.
Originally published on August 13, 2004
That sentence and the word reality do not belong in the same universe.
You can't honestly believe any democrat politician, or for that matter a republican as well, is concerned that they are not qualified for the job and would step down because of it. Can you???
Thanks to the media being lazy and sycophantic, 99% of Americans believe Clinton was impeached because "it's only about sex",
So much for the complaint that homosexuals can't get married - here's one that got married twice!
Yes sir!
The corruption that will be revealed in New Jersey, ala McGreevey & Co., will be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of what Clinton, and his ilk perpetrated on the American people.
Most all of us want sex, however men who put sex before all else, are not only a danger to themselves, but those around him. There is a time and a place for everything, and engaging in sex in the WhiteHouse, while in conversation with a Congress person, on government business, is not one of them. Needless to say, that is but one he was caught at.
A man in the public service who thinks like this is a liability to our national security.
Once the "mongols" decend on the United States, it is too late. After all, how many times can you kill them for treason?
If the Republican Party in New Jersey is worth its salt, they will jump on this and jump on it hard. It's not the gay thing, it's the corruption and the whole emocratic and liberal media assumption that anything is permitted to an out and proud member of their favority victim class.
What do you think about gay activists getting out the confetti and celebrating regarding McGreevey's coming out? McGreevey wasn't an unmarried politician who was simply discreet about his gay life -- no, he went and got married and had a kid for political props. That's pretty disgusting, particularly in this day and age. Besides, what is the message here by McGreevey's coming out -- that gay people will jeopardize their state's security due to their sex lives? What is McGreevey a role model for, anyway, that gay people can be corrupt, too?
Thanks for your response -- I just can't understand why the quintessential closet case is being lionized for his alleged candor, when the only reason for his candor is political calculation, and your comments shed some light on the reaction.
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