Foley mess and GOP are a match made in heaven

New York Daily News ^ | October 17, 2006 | Richard Cohen

[presidio9]

'On the nose" is a Hollywood expression. It refers to a scene or a piece of dialogue that is too obvious or too good to be true. Hollywood would have said the whole Mark Foley sex scandal is on the nose. Let's start with the fact that this confessed gay stalker of teenage congressional pages was co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. All over Hollywood, fingers would go to the tip of the nose: Can't we make it Armed Services? No, we cannot. To change anything at all about the Foley matter would be to trifle with its vacuity, its reliance on bigotry and ignorance, its Beaver Cleaver qualities (congressional pages, for crying out loud!) and, not the least, the fact that so far this is the ultimate Washington sex scandal: There is no sex.

Maybe some page will be discovered to have had sex with Foley, but so far this has not happened. This total lack of a physical victim may explain why certain GOP congressional bulls did not bolt from the joint, pulling every alarm on the way out. Foley was creepy and appallingly inappropriate, but so far that seems to be it.

The lamentable lack of a victim hardly gets noticed as politicians coil their ropes, measuring Foley or some other poor chap for a proper lynching. Dennis Hastert should have known. George Bush should have known. Karl Rove should have known. How come this did not come up on one of those unconstitutional wiretaps? Did anyone in the House leadership think of waterboarding Foley? The man was gay, after all.

That, too, is on the nose. That this happened to the GOP is too, too much. It is no longer the party of Lincoln, but of gay-bashing. Its base is among those who embrace ignorance of homosexuality and, while they are at it, ignorance of sexual matters in general.

It was the GOP that cozied up to churches and preachers who likened homosexuals to the vilest people of all times and called on them to cease their wicked ways. To this sort of demagoguery, the leaders of the GOP have not just merely looked away, they have encouraged it.

So it is not possible now to call the whole thing off. It is not possible even to suggest that all those kids are not 8-year-olds, but American teenagers, probably none of them sexually naive. In all likelihood, nothing Foley messaged the poor dears was entirely new to them, and it's even possible to argue that, no matter what, psychological trauma is not likely to follow.

The abuse of trust is no laughing matter and the corruption of children is in a class by itself. But a sex scandal-cum-political panic involving just one person lacks a certain something. That it has attained such critical mass, that it threatens the speaker of the House and the GOP majority says little about the repellent Foley and more about how the GOP has hoisted itself on its own petard. It's on the nose all right, but sometimes so is life itself.

[little jeremiah]

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[little jeremiah]

Republican Gays are Closeted Dems
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719377/posts

Democrats are clawing the air. Unfortuantely some of them seem to have the label "Republican" on them.

[Mike Darancette]

Let's start with the fact that this confessed gay stalker of teenage congressional pages was co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.

Funny, I don't remember any such confession.

[okie01]

It was the GOP that cozied up to churches and preachers who likened homosexuals to the vilest people of all times and called on them to cease their wicked ways.

Whatchawannabet Cohen is blissfully ignorant of a salient fact: Fred Phelps and his brood in the Westboro Baptist "Church" of Topeka, KS are registered Democrats.

[gidget7]

"No, I think it says that the MSM knows that sex scandals repel conservatives so this is a good issue to harp on and blow out of all proportion to depress the Repub vote."



Exactly. It's not about their outrage, because they aren't outraged. They just know conservatives will be. So they feign outrage. It's a game they have played for years, they are experts at it. Only this time, they think it will cause all those nasty values voters to stay home.

I prefer to think it will drive them there even more so than 2004 did. Simply because not to vote, would to allow the Dems to manipulate us. Conservatives are not that gullible, in fact we are are far more informed than any dem.

[gidget7]

I agree, I say we impeach Soro's...........oh wait, he can't be, he's........he's............hmmmmmmmm he's nobody!

[penelopesire]

"No, I think it says that the MSM knows that sex scandals repel conservatives so this is a good issue to harp on and blow out of all proportion to depress the Repub vote."

Bingo..and now that the polls are coming in that the Republican base is not ready to blame the entire GOP for Mark Foley's follies...we have what else?....THE IMMIGRATION DIVIDER BACK IN THE NEWS!!

We have 'news stories' of the BUSH ADMINISTRATION Staffers' making fun of 'Christians'....we have news stories of 'Gay Staffers' in the Republican Party.....never mind that the DEMS OPERATIVES put a GAY PORN KING in charge of internet provider service for Congressional Staffers and Congressional Wives over at Hillzoo.com around 2000!!...must not look at that cold hard fact!!

We get 'news stories' of NK and how 'kind' ole Kim was after Maddy gave him a basketball! Let's don't mention the two nuclear reactors and nuclear technology that Maddy gave KIM..MUST STAY FOCUSSED ON THE BASKETBALL AND THE LOVELY TOAST AND THE DANCE THAT THEY SHARED!! Because in a liberal's mind..that is all it takes to make peace!!

We get 'news stories' and more 'news stories' of how we are 'losing' in Iraq.........BLAHBLAHBLAH....

Excuse me while I vomit!!

[CaptRon]

The lamentable lack of a victim hardly gets noticed

Lamentable?!

The only thing lamentable is that Richard Cohen has access to a word processor and a newspaper that will print his bile.

[Siena Dreaming]

And don't forget the "news stories" of how the polls are showing a dem win....just as false as the rest of them.

[lentulusgracchus]

Too bad their little time bomb went off too early, was debunked and the lies exposed, and in the end, the media pulled the plug before we got to the bottom of which Democrats knew of this behavior and when they knew it.

Mia T has a good competing theory about that. She thinks the Mark Foley thing was a Clinton "October surprise" all the way (the Flyntish smell is familiar).

Only when Slick started getting bad reviews on his Chris Wallace/Fox interview about his non-handling of terrorism, he realized he was imperiling Beast's run for the '08 coronation, so they decided to launch the "surprise" a few weeks early in order to change the subject.

Bottom line: More media-management by the Klintonx.

I must say, the theory has its attractions.

[lentulusgracchus]

The only thing lamentable is that Richard Cohen has access to a word processor and a newspaper that will print his bile.

Hey, if they don't print it, he'll out them all!

[Mia T]

A match made in heaven. Or selectively redacted by DNC dirty tricks operatives so as to make it appear to be something it was not.

And the yellow journalists in the media exposed this October Surprise for their Democrat masters. Too bad their little time bomb went off too early, was debunked and the lies exposed, and in the end, the media pulled the plug before we got to the bottom of which Democrats knew of this behavior and when they knew it.--weegee


Mia T has a good competing theory about that. She thinks the Mark Foley thing was a Clinton "October surprise" all the way (the Flyntish smell is familiar).

Only when Slick started getting bad reviews on his Chris Wallace/Fox interview about his non-handling of terrorism, he realized he was imperiling Beast's run for the '08 coronation, so they decided to launch the "surprise" a few weeks early in order to change the subject.

Bottom line: More media-management by the Klintonx.

I must say, the theory has its attractions.--lentulusgracchus

What drove the husband to prematurely launch Foley was, first and foremost, saving his noxious legacy (in his own mind, anyway), not the wife's electoral fantasies (which I am not so sure he shares, in any case...).
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