Posted on 10/01/2006 7:45:10 AM PDT by Dane
But they didn't cover up for him. Remember the first e-mails were non-sexually explicit and the page's parents complained that they wanted the e-mails to stop, but didn't want a further investigation.
As soon as the sexually explicit IM's were released, foley was booted, unlike barney frank or gerry studds, both democrats.
He'll have to be first indicted and then convicted.
So, what's Bawney Fwank's opinion about this?
And, what percentage of homosexual congressman have been involved in some sort of sex scandal? This is at least the second one caught soliciting or having sex with minors.
"For sure, but not until he disgraced the GOP."
Yep. A darn shame! If ol Barney Frank had been a republican, the dims would have called for his head!
I have been really busy and only catching small parts of this story on TV in passing.
I don't condone what Foley has done, I think it's sick.
However, from what I've seen and heard on this, the Dims are going crazy. And, of course, blaming it on the GOP leadership. They knew, yea, probably so, and probably know about a lot of others doing stuff like this.
I want to ROTF laughing when I see the Dims (hello, Bawney Fwrank) going nuts over this though. A little hypocritical huh?The Dims are the GAY RIGHTS advocates aren't they?
I heard a CNN reporter on TV yesterday just breathless with excitement over this, saying it is going to sink the GOP chances for reelection, etc. I think I'll email them today and ask if they could get some quotes from Bawney on this (grin)
He's no pedophile. They hit on young kids.
I don't see where he has committed any unlawful act. The age of consent in DC is 16, and apparently none of the pages took him up on his offers anyway.
The FBI would have difficulty getting a search warrant, and in any case he's not so dumb that he wouldn't have chucked his hard drive by now.
They have been behind the curve for more than a year.
They worry about power and prestige, not duty. Part of that is the personal power they can employ against the obscene numbers of assistants and "underlings".
He was targeting young men, not prepubescent boys. He's a garden-variety homosexual, the kind that liberal democrats protect, honor, and defend among their own.
His outing and ouster is good for the Republican Party.
Here is the most important line in this piece in regards to the dems attempt to take out the entire Republican party with this scandal:
"Loraditch said his friends all thought the messages were disturbing, but they did not report them, either because they did not think the messages posed a serious threat or because they might have worried about career consequences."
Now how was the GOP leadership to know about the sexually IM's if these boys never reported it?
Once again, the democrats are hedging their bets on rumor and innuendo instead of issues!
If you read the story foley would contact them when they left the page program and he also used his own AOL account not the House e-mail system. he was doing this under the radar and even the pages siad when they were in DC(where he would be seen by the GOP leadership), that foley's conduct was proper(for lack of a better term).
When Hastert had the smoking gun of evidence of the IM's, foley was immediately booted out, unlike gerry studds or barney frank.
Why do you call Foley a pedophile rather than a homosexual?
It's pretty unlikely the democrats were unaware and they should be held accountable as well. After all, do they care about kids or do they care more about making it an election issue?
I despise him for what he's done...BUT, how dare the 'Rats complain about him hitting on pages, while Clinton hitting on interns was supposedly "his private sex life"? Moreover, the 'Rats push the homosexual agenda every chance they get, and grown men seducing young boys is PART of that agenda. Please don't mistake this comment for condoning what Foley did--but the hypocrisy is just astounding.
Great Post, thank you! I wonder if Loraditch was the same former page who was interviewed this morning on FOX, sure reads the same.
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