Worst October Surprise, EVERPosted on 10/04/2006 9:22:29 PM PDT by knews_hound
Worst October Surprise, EVER
It had all the earmarks of a classic Democrat Party plan to depress Republican turnout. Take a barely disguised homosexual Republican Congressman, add salacious electronic messages that included masturbation, sex and other lurid details, push it to their eager and willing accomplices in the Main Stream Media (MSM) right before an election and as quick as you can say LBJ an instant scandal is created.
The only problem it seems, is that in today’s world of media, with data available to the whole world that was heretofore available only to a select few, the plan didn’t work out quite the way they had expected. An enterprising blogger has done some elemental detective work and discovered that the entire incident is nearly exactly the opposite of what was first reported.
Rather than a case of a pedophile Congressman stalking young men in the corridors of power, it instead turns out to be a case of a closeted homosexual nurturing a relationship with a young man, and making sexual advances once he became an adult. A relationship by the way that the young man, if he felt threatened or chose not to continue, could have ended at any time.
An older homosexual man seeking a relationship with a young man? Who would have thought?
Rather than the Pedophile Politician script we were first being fed, we now know that the real story is far less than we have been lead to believe.
As it turns out, although the young man in question was indeed a Page, was indeed befriended by Congressman Foley and did have sexual discussions with him; it seems everything was perfectly legal. As a signatory of a Bill outlawing Internet sex between adults and minors, Foley was perfectly aware of the legal boundaries and seems to have taken great care to not cross that fine line until the young man became a legal adult.
All I can remember is the Democrats mantra. That the troglodyte Republicans were obsessed by sex between consenting adults. That homosexuals in close working relationships with young people, especially young men, is a good and healthy thing. That some forms of sex, aren’t sex. That what two consenting adults do or say behind closed doors is their business. That intercepting and reading electronic communications between anyone in the US, especially those between two citizens, is never to be tolerated.
And most of all; never be judgmental.
So in the end, what do we end up with?
That the facts at hand were, yet again, revealed by an anonymous Blogger Rather (pardon the pun) that the “professional fact checkers” that the MSM routinely crows about is the death knell to the Democrats traditional scripts. Along with the infamous Texas Air National Guard documents of 2004, this latest attempt by the Democrats is not going according to plan, and I suspect it will have the same result at the Polls in November. It is, without a doubt, the worst October Surprise, EVER.
About the Writer: Patrick Godfrey lives and works in Northern California and blogs at http://knewshound.blogspot.com/ He can be reached at knewshound@yahoo.com. Feedback, criticism and pithy comments are always welcome.
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This is really getting kind of funny, you know?
The little scandal that couldn't.
a sex scandal without sex, a child who was an adult....LOL!
Great lines.
And an idiot Republican named Foley
Ping
Let it be known, folks -- Foleygate is the Democrats' best shot at nationalizing this election.
Yep, Homer Simpson is running the Rat war room now, D'OH.
Well the MSM hasn't figured it out yet, they're still running with it at this hour.
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Comic Book Guy should get his own spin-off show.
I really hope that Rove's October Suprise is better than this.
You end up with the majority of the public NOT having all the facts, a "masses of asses" majority of potential voters who are too lazy to find the facts (which will NOT be revealed by the mainstream media) thinking negatively about the repuglican'ts. This is exactly what the Democraps wanted.
Never mind that Bawney Fag, rep Taint, Mista Jeffason, and Ted the Swimmer all did worse and survived...When you have the resources of the mainSStream media on your side, the trivial becomes serious, and the serious becomes earth-shattering.
And don't forget that no one eats their own like the Repuglican'ts eat their own.
this thread's title reminded me that Rove is supposed to have his own October surprise
This "scandal", like most RAT-invented scandals, is falling apart faster than a Chinese moped. (guffaw)
Oddly, this phony scandal has blown Woodward's phony scandal off the airwaves.
Now, I'm waiting for Rove's October Suprise.
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