Gingrich: Dems' Sex Scandals Are Worse

[sabra]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-gingrich-foley,0,1358403.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

Gingrich: Dems' Sex Scandals Are Worse

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley.

Gingrich said Democrats have wanted to punish their offenders less than the GOP.

"What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality," Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."

...

Gingrich would not say whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert should step down in the wake of the scandal. He also declined to discuss reports that Hastert may have known about Foley's behavior for more than three years.

"I don't know what he knew," Gingrich said.

[babylonsister]

1. STFU, Gingrich. No one cares what you think. nt

[Tellurian]

62. Newtie says:

"Gingrich would not say whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert should step down in the wake of the scandal. He also declined to discuss reports that Hastert may have known about Foley's behavior for more than three years."

If you presumed to do your job as a spokesman for Hastert, shouldn't

"I don't know what he knew," Gingrich said.

you know, what he didn't know, when he knew he didn't know, he knew ?..

Then, Newt, at least you'd know, what you don't know!

[Tellurian]

74. Newt, You WIN...Dems Lose!

Dems Can't TOP this LIST!

* Republican Child Advocate, Congressman Mark Foley, accused of sending sexually explict e-mails to Congressional Pages..
while House was in session.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

* Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

* Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

* Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.

* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

* Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

* Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

* Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

* Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

[Jawja]

92. WOW!!

They really ARE the "Grand Old Perverts!" :wow:

Thanks for the list.

[Megahurtz]

101. No, GROSS Old Perverts. n/t

[Jawja]

119. That fits!

:thumbsup:

[Tellurian]

118. If you could...

and anyones else.. please seize this opportunity to
post the list far and wide.

Anyone know of a similar list containing Dem names?

I googled and couldn't find one..

[blm]

94. Send that list to Newsday and the Greenville News.

Maybe they can get an update from Newt who can "revise and extend his remarks" ahahahahahah......

[Lindacooks]

96. The only Dem I have heard of is one Hannity pulled out of his ass:

happened in 1983. And old grody said 'that's pretty recent'. I kid you not.

NAME THEM, NEWT!! I'm not falling for those blanket sweeping lies you so regularly spout.

[zreosumgame]

97. the incident in question

Stubbs did have sex with a 17 year old boy (not sure if it was a page, intern or what). He did NOT try to bribe other dems to cover it up, he did NOT blame anyone else, he did NOT go into hiding when 'caught', he DID run again and got re-elected, mostly because he did not try to cover it up...

[Lindacooks]

110. Oh, I agree with all of that.

But my point is - that's all that slimo Hannity could find? When the list of Repuke pedophiles is a mile long??!?

[boilinmad]

120. That list........

.........should be shoved down Newties throat, just like in "Misery"

[Zorra]

121. The infamous republican necrophiliac serial killer rapist Ted Bundy

fits right in with your list:

Bundy described the part of himself that, from a very young age, was fascinated by images of sex and violence, as "the entity," and kept it very well hidden. It should be noted, however, that by the time Bundy was talking about "other selves" he was trying to appeal his death sentence. Later, friends and acquaintances would remember a handsome, articulate young man. Bundy worked and campaigned for the Washington State Republican Party as an adult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy

[Telly Savalas]

63. Precisely.

This thread should be removed from LBN, because Newt's blatherings aren't newsworthy. Perhaps if the guy at least had a steady job...

[Joe Bacon]

67. Hey, Newt, you cheating on Wife #4 yet?

You cheated on #1, #2 and #3.

Shut the fuck up, Newt.

[saigon68]

85. He's busy measuring the length of his penis

To see if he "measures up" to Foley.

LOL

[Greeby]

2. How is that, Newt?

That we have affairs with grown adults, does that bother you Newt?

[VegasWolf]

3. How many dying wives did Gringrich cheat on? I forget. nt

[Judi Lynn]

80. Nothing in the universe could be worse than a "man" who would

DREAM of abusing others the way Gingrich does habitually.

From Robert Scheer, L.A.Times, published in 1999, before he (Gingrich) did even more damage:

Critics of Gingrich have long made much of the insensitivity he demonstrated in serving his first wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer. Nor did news of his efforts to cut life insurance coverage for the mother of his children always endear Gingrich to his family values supporters, but it was generally assumed that his marital errors were in the past.

This time, his approach was less personal. Marianne Gingrich told the Washington Post that she was informed of the affair and the request for a divorce last May in a telephone call from Newt to her mother's home, where she was visiting.

After first expressing best wishes to his mother-in-law on her 84th birthday, he asked to speak to his wife, who was soon reduced to tears by Newt's news.

"I said, 'Marianne, what's wrong?' " Gingrich's mother-in-law told the Washington Post, and she said her daughter replied, "He doesn't want me as his wife anymore." According to the Post: "There was a second jolt soon afterward. Newt Gingrich, now 56, informed his wife that he was having an affair with a congressional aide, a woman 23 years his junior."

Marianne Gingrich told the Post she was "totally shocked" by the news, and her attorneys last week obtained court permission to interview Gingrich and Callista Bisek, a scheduler and assistant hearing clerk for the House Agriculture Committee since early 1995. The relationship allegedly began that year.
(snip/...)

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/99_columns/081799.htm

[aquart]

4. This is the man who was committing adultery while impeaching Clinton?

Does he think we forgot?

[ShockediSay]

73. High hypocrisy over in their camp translates to GOP* leadership

*Good Ol'Preverts

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Gingrich said this? *Serial adulterer* Gingrich?

Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick. I really think some Republicans are fucking insane.

[springhill]

34. "Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick"............

That is a great line; made me smile amid the grossness of it all.

[Homer Wells]

6. So, consensual sex with another adult

is much more serious than harboring a sexual predator, one who has cyber sex with young pages while waiting to vote on the floor of Congress. Gee, Newt, you've got some unique family values.
:argh: :freak: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[saigon68]

114. Well Foley could have had sex with a sheep or dog

[MikeNearMcChord]

7. Paging EarlG, can we nominate him for Conservative Idiot of the Week?

"What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality," Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."
Funny I don't recall Dems calling for a ban on Gay marriage, flag burning, or even internet gambling. And I must admit I miss that "democrat" James Dobson, extoling me the virtues of living a clean life.
:crazy:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

37. I think we're saving him for conservative idiot of the millenium

I swear, in a thousand years, there will never be an asshole as big as Newt Gingrich.

[Catchawave]

87. I second that nomination !

While we Dems aren't perfect, we don't try and legislate MORALITY. Also, what the critics don't seem to understand is cosensual sex between adults and preying on children. Makes ya wonder what else they don't understand......?

[smb]

104. Dobson: "D - Family Values"

And I must admit I miss that "democrat" James Dobson

Well, just wait until the next time he's on Faux News and read the label....

[Poppyseedman]

8. GOP......... Talking points

Did you think the rethugs would just sit back and take it???

I just hope no democrats get caught up in the following days.

[Blaq Dem]

70. They're digging...

I hope no dem will get caught up either. Republicans are probably wire tapping democrats to find something on them.

[whistle]

9. Newt Gingrich is not even worth listening to, he is politically irrelevant

[0rganism]

10. ...because Democrats are doing them instead of Republicans?

Hell, Newt, if you have hard evidence of elected Democratic officeholders doing something worse than cyberstalking and soliciting sex from minors, by all means let it rip. Don't obstruct justice by covering up these hideous crimes.

[Downtown Hound]

11. Name one Newt

Name me one sex scandal from Democrats that is worse, you fucking walking bag of pig vomit.

[silverweb]

42. Exactly.

That's what I'm waiting for.

Name one, Newtie -- and make sure it's verifiable, not just fresh out of your overactive imagination.

[AlCzervik]

12. did he leave his own personal life out?

[stanwyck]

13. Never forgive Newt for this

when Susan Smith drowned her two little boys (and blamed a carjacking black man - who didn't exist) Newt took the opportunity to blame liberals. It was our fault...we had created the climate...for Susan Smith to drown her two sons.
How heinous is that?
What Newt didn't mention was that Susan Smith's Republican committeeman stepfather had been sexually molesting Smith since she was 14. The man admitted the abuse.
No. Not the Republican stepfather's fault that he seriously damaged his stepdaughter.
It was the liberal's fault.
What a surprise that Newt is singing that song again.
Talk about your hypocrisy!
The rightwing trash talkers have been blaming liberals for Mark Foley's predatory ways.
How low is the IQ of the people who believe such garbage?
Is it truly necessary to be a blithering idiot to be a conservative these days?

[calimary]

36. Yep. That bastard went around trumpeting the message: this is what

happens when you vote for Democrats. I remember that. It was simply horrendous. I'm sure the next thing he'll say is that our side is playing politics with someone's personal tragedy. Like he didn't??? And what about his wife in the cancer ward, then, too? To whom he brought divorce papers - WHILE she was stricken and suffering??? What about the cheating he did with his various secretaries and other assorted available females?

FUCK YOU, newty. Go slither back under your rock where you belong.

Better yet - UNFUCK YOU, newty. I hope you never get any - AGAIN. As long as you live. Or if you do, that you have to pay through the nose for it.

[CTyankee]

112. well, he ain't no spring chicken any more

He probably only scores when he's downed his Viagra. I bet he can't do nothin' without it.

[vixengrl]

61. All very true--what culture created this abhorrent scene?

Abusive culture, racist culture, sexist culture--take Susan Smith. What was it?

Republican culture. Her abuse was at the hands of a domineering man--and she felt she could not get another man unless she didn't have children. They were a sacrifice to her desire to start over--dependent on a new someone--this had nothing to do with feminism for one. Nothing to do with being free, independent, able to do for herself--or she would have done for her boys.

Newt is an irrelevancy--repeat not even often enough to sully the dialogue with his sad little name. An irrelevancy--please refer to him as the former Speaker--or better--disgraced former Speaker. The frequently married serial adulterer trashmouth little former speaker.Who used exempt PAC money for campaigns--how innovative and illegal! You know--the revolution of 1994 is only a year earlier than the 1995 entree of Foley into he House--let's blame Newt for *him*.

Just one of his progeny.

[gumby]

78. Never forgive this EITHER

Newt stepped into the tragic killing of a woman in Chicago whose baby was cut out of her.

The distressed family certainly didn't need Newt's (psychopathic) interference for political gain and actually said so in a news conference.

To use this family's tragedy, just like that of Susan Smith, is adequate demonstration of Newt's TOTAL lack of humanity.

[kestrel91316]

14. Funny. When I was a kid, it NEVER worked to say this s--t to my mom

after I had misbehaved. My sister's misdeeds at that point were irrelevant.

[Xipe Totec]

15. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."

Oh sweet irony, thy name is Newt "the adulterer" Gingrich.

:rofl:

[stillcool]

16. big difference here newt...

republicans talk the talk, but obviously don't walk the walk. And no shit. How are they going to split the american people apart now?

[MissWaverly]

17. excuse me, Newt, the stench is all coming from the GOP

You were the ones who were all moral on us, you were the ones who cleaned house in 1994,
you were the ones who were going to restore America, don't lecture us on morality,
clean up your act.

[daleo]

43. Foley was elected in 1994

One of the "contract on America" set.

[MissWaverly]

115. Why am I not surprised.

[papau]

18. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was told about Foley & did what?

That is the latest factoid that the media is trying to bury by not reporting it.

Even if they left it as "page says he told ... and Clerk - who runs page program - says he told Newt" - and did not say Newt knew - I'd be impressed.

But instead we get quotes from Newt fed to us by the main stream media - as if Newt's hands are clean.

Now who was speaker in 1995 when the Clerk of the house was told by the speaker to warn the kids about Foley? And did DeLay do anything about the problem when he was Speaker - indeed it seems every GOPer in Government new of the problem - and was sworn to never tell a Dem.

The latest 9 pm "breaking" is that on last nights conference call of all the House GOP, a GOPer said Foley showed up drunk at the Page Dorm a few years back - and the Capitol police had to remove him (a fact no doubt erased from the records of the police). And that specific folks were told, and of course those folks first version of their reply is that they were not told. And this is GOPer against GOPer.

Amazing - and our media censor's most of it.

Then today we learn today that a communications researcher has found that Comedy Central presents as much or more real, detailed news as any network.

[uppityperson]

19. 2 responses, both wtf

wtf are you talking about?
wtf would it have to do with anything if it were true?
then laugh

[Riverman]

20. Pig Boy Newt is Carpping His Pants!

Turns out warnings were given to Pages in 1995 to stay away from then freshman congressman Foley - republican from Florida. They knew then and so did Newt.

[Old and In the Way]

21. Don't worry Newter....your actions speak a helluva louder than our words.

It ain't the sin, it's the hypocrite sinner we have a problem with, you pompous blowhard.

[shance]

22. Oh my god. We have hateful grade school children in leadership.

n/t

[leQ]

23. gingrich, the teacher of how to be the hippest hypocrite. (nt)

[bronxiteforever]

24. "until death do us part" " There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."

Gingrich has been married three times. He married his first wife, Jackie Battley, in 1962, and divorced her in 1981. Gingrich married his second wife, Marianne Ginther, in the fall of 1981.<2> They divorced in 1999, after revealing that he had been having an affair with a House aide, Callista Bisek.<3> Gingrich and Bisek were married the following year.-wikipedia

[Lisa]

25. Newt had better hope nobody is going to testify about what went on ...

... in his office at his old university! (Heard about this from someone who was on campus at the same time.)

[oppositionmember]

26. Foley: I Did Not Have Sex With That Boy

Spread the word

[oppositionmember]

27. Foley: I Did Not Have Sex With That Boy

Spread the word

[oppositionmember]

28. GOP: We Did Not Have Sex With That Boy

Spread the Word

[oppositionmember]

29. GOP: WE DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THOSE BOYS - REALLY!

Pass the word.

[stlsaxman]

84. yeah- GOP: "We did NOT have sex with those children!"

Sread the word.

sorry but the list is important for it's impact alone:

* Republican Child Advocate, Congressman Mark Foley, accused of sending sexually explict e-mails to Congressional Pages..
while House was in session.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

* Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

* Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

* Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.

* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

* Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

* Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

* Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

* Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

[54anickel]

30. Heh-heh, remember the 04 exit polls? Moral Values & Religious Faith

BS was being touted as the most important reasons for voting for DimSon as well as for backing the GOP in general. Though I'm sure most of them aren't paying as close attention to this as DU, there has got to be some heads exploding over this crap.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html

[gumby]

79. That "Values Voters" crap

was the backstory used by the Class Media used to cover-up the stolen election.

[JoFerret]

31. Ner, ner, ner Newt

See - we are better than you at everything even by your admission. (What a crock! GOP will ALWAYS win on the repressed sexuality/ sleaze factor).

[Fire Walk With Me]

32. spoO

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gingrich+ethics+violation

[anotherdrew]

33. newt wants a full-page ad in the NYT listing all their foul deeds does he?

once we have the power, it's time to make damn sure we dismatle the entire republican machine, RICO act should do it.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

35. Newt Gingrich lectures us on morality...

Now I really have heard everything.

Just for the record, the women with whom Newt was philandering during his first marriage (the wife he divorced while she was in the hospital) recalled that she once performed oral sex on Newt in a parked car while Newt's two young daughters were within sight.

But more to the point, the only two Democratic sex scandals in the past generation have been Bill Clinton (impeached) and Gerry Studds (reprimanded by the House -- the same treatment given to Republican Dan Crane for the same offense).

So in closing, Newt, go fuck yourself.

[Erika]

39. Kind of like Bill Bennett lecturing us on morals

after he lost 8 mil in gambling. You just gotta love these republicans.

[Riverman]

46. No Newt Can't Fuck Himself Silly, He is well known as Pin Dick Newt the

Bug Fucker! Too small to even grab a fistful let alone fuck himself despite being one of the biggest ASSHOLES in American Political History!

[Erika]

38. Gingrich & Livingston both ran out of DC with their tails

between their legs for the immense scope of their sexual escapades. Faux News is the only ones giving them real air time.

[davidinalameda]

40. was he gigglingly uncontrollably while saying this

how could he keep a straight face while saying this

[complain jane]

41. APPARENTLY HE HASN'T SEEN THIS LIST

Complete with linked sources:

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[Blaq Dem]

76. Child sex parties in the White House in the 1980's????

That's sickening!!!!

And that's a mighty long list you have there.

[Riverman]

44. Most Hypocritical Newt! He walked out of his wife who was in the

hospital with cancer to go have an affair with his staff. He is another disgusting Republican pig!
He was Speaker of the House when Foley was identified as an abuser of teenage boys in 1995 and pages were warned to stay away from him. Nobody on the Republican High Command since 1995 was unaware of Foley and they hide his dirty little secret for political power at the expense of the continued abuse of teenage boys. These people are as bad as the decadent Nazis and their psycopathic SS henchmen.

WE must rid the US government of these degenerates NOW!

[0007]

45. Newt who?

[DoYouEverWonder]

47. Gingrich on page scandal: Democrats have done far worse

Oct 4, 2006

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley from Florida.

Gingrich said Democrats have wanted to punish their offenders less than the GOP.

"What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality," Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."

Foley abruptly resigned Friday after being accused of sending salacious Internet messages to teenage boys who served as pages on Capitol Hill. The FBI and Florida law enforcement officials are investigating.

<snip>

Doug Wavle, a state GOP executive committee member who works at nearby Bob Jones University, said Foley's indiscretions won't affect Christian conservatives like him, who will likely rally around a state constitutional amendment on the ballot banning same sex marriages.

"I'm a fundamental Bible believer. Foley didn't fall in that category," Wavle said. "He practiced his faith in the Roman Catholic Church where alcohol is accepted. He's not part of our crew."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_GINGRICH_FOLEY_FLOL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=state.shtml


Newtie needs to go stick it where the sun don't shine.

[wellst0nev0ter]

48. Didn't He Fuck His Math Teacher As A Student?

Then married her, and dumped her when she was recovering from cancer? As you said, Newtie can stick it.

[rurallib]

49. Wondering how long it will be before they bring up

Tom Jefferson and Sally Hemmings?

[Greeby]

51. Or George W Bush and Condoleezza Rice as they're otherwise known

:eyes:

[Lindacooks]

50. Name them, Newt.

An honest person (which you obviously are not) doesn't just cast aspersions on an entire group of people. NAME THEM, you little rotter.

[Bombero1956]

57. that's rich coming from Newt

no way has a Dem ever come close to what Rep. Foley did and when a Dem did it was with a consenting adult.

[MannyGoldstein]

52. Hey Newt! Rick Santorum Says Otherwise!

Rick Santorum's Republican Child Molesters

[daleo]

53. I knew Gingrich was a sleaze

But I didn't think he would stick up for a sexual predator (only because I thought he still had presidential aspirations). I guess they are doing the Republican Limbo - how low can you go?

[Democrats_win]

54. But Newt, we're at war. While you fiddle, soldiers die. Stop!

[UTUSN]

55. DiVORCE your CANCER wife on her HOSPITAL BED, a-hole!!!!1

[4nic8em]

56. Hmmm....

Maybe Nut Gangrene is busy drafting a new "Contract against America". Fuck him and everything he represents.

[grasswire]

58. But Newtie.........

Democrats don't position themselves as the party of VIRTUES or FAMILY VALUES.

That's the difference, ya dope.

[samdogmom]

59. He's going to end up looking stupid because he was in charge in '95!

Supposedly, Congressional pages were already aware of Foley in 1995. If that's true, Newt was the Speaker of the House. If pages were warning other pages to avoid Mark Foley, why didn't the House leader do anything about it? I truly hope he has to eat his sanctimonious/hypocritical words!

[LeftCoast]

60. Wasn't it Newt that divorced his wife while she was dying of cancer

so he could marry his then mistress at the time?

I'm not sure this is the guy I want to hear talk about morals...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

68. She wasn't dying of cancer I don't think

She was receiving cancer treatment when he dumped her. She was still alive as of a few years ago if my memory serves me accurately

But I agree -he's a poor choice for a morals spokesperson

[TheFarseer]

64. you want hypocrisy?

Foley broke laws that he helped write!!!! If that's not hypocritical, then maybe this is: Someone who brought divorce papers to his wife's hospital bed while she was recovering from cancer saying, she just wasn't pretty or young enough is going to lecture me about morality!?!? What a dumbass. Go away, Newt, before not even Sean Hannity thinks you have a shred of credibility.

[patrick t. cakes]

65. thats...

the pot calling the kettle black. what kind of a name is newt?

[usregimechange]

66. They are all about personal responsibility aren't they?

[rodeodance]

69. why does this insect get so much air time!

.......
"What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality," Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."

[LynnTheDem]

71. Oh well...that makes it ok then.

Good grief...have they really sunk so low in their effort to defend sexual harrassment of kids??!

[wageslave71]

82. They will say/do anything ...

to get the spotlight off this. Isn't it about time for them to foil some terrorist plot or something?

[w4rma]

72. I've never in my entire life seen a sex scandal as bad as this one.

Not even close to this Republican sex scandal.

This scandal is in a league all it's own. It's created a totally new league.

Anyway, I think Gingrich resigned over a sex scandal, also. He is a poor spokesman for defending Republican sex scandals.

[Erika]

75. Nope, and it's hanging in there

These kids were teenagers. Foley was appointed by the GOP to power of position in progams to help the youth from exploitation by adults.

[The Roux Comes First]

77. Given past Gingrich behavior, no reason to even acknowledge

this never mind respond. There are creatures who lack a spine who are more worthy of attention than this creature.

Come to think of it, he has at times lacked a spine.

Now he's just a germ.

Innoculation needed.

[leftchick]

81. He must have Missed Foley's IM where he mention's his Newt Dildo!

he tells the page he is sitting on a dildo shaped like Newt Gingrich!! And the asshole is defending him?

:rofl:

[stlsaxman]

83. I used to think Newt was aptly named...

but now I prefer his name to be Low-life Fucking Scum.

[Vinca]

86. I've got one word for Newt: KID.

That's the difference. Every "Democrat" scandal (so-called) involved consenting adults.

[AllegroRondo]

88. Standard Repug scandal response routine

1. We didnt do anything wrong, its just a partisan witch hunt.
2. Ok, we did something wrong, but its just one guy and we didnt know anything.
3. OK, we may have known about it, but so did Dems and they didnt do anything about it.
4. OK, Dems may not have known, but they have done the same things and worse.
5. CLINTON!

[havocmom]

89. Told cancer-patient wife he wanted a divorce, late with support payments

to the point her church group payed to keep her power on... THAT NEWT? That's the guy lecturing us about scandals? The bozo who thought teaching up and coming GOP pols the propaganda techniques of Nazi Joseph Goebbels was good for America?!?!

THAT NEWT? Hell, catch the little fucker and toss him back into the cauldron!

[raccoon]

90. At all levels, that's how these stupid Repukes operate.

"Well, what So-and-so (Democrat) did was worse!"

Childish, immature, what else can I say?

[rocktivity]

91. This coming from a man who persecuted Clinton from having an affair

while he was having one HIMSELF!

:headbang:
rocknation

[RT_Fanatic]

93. This is the best the freeptards can come up with:

Hawaii Democrats Pay for Foley Scandal

Posted by Republican Red
On 10/05/2006 6:02:19 AM PDT · 33 replies · 1,102+ views

Hawaii Reporter ^
Sen. Daniel Inouye Named in one of “Top Ten” Sex Scandals By Andrew Walden, 10/4/2006 11:18:09 PM Evidence is emerging that Democrat operatives may have held transcripts of resigned Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley’s salacious instant messaging conversations and emails for months if not years in hopes of using them in an “October surprise” in order to defeat Republicans at the polls. The danger posed to underage Congressional pages is obvious -- but what is only now becoming evident is the danger to sitting Democrat Senators and Congressman as old sex-scandals re-emerge. The media frenzy is having unintended consequences for...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714126/posts

:rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

95. Mr. Morality and Virtue is delusional. How's wife #4 doing?

Cheated on her yet?

[dback]

98. Columnists at townhall are doing the same thing--mentioning Clinton, etc.

Democratic rep Gerry Studds (was ever a man more unfortunately or appropriately named?) is getting hauled out of the closet again as well, though that was more than 23 years ago. He and another colleague (Republican) were both censured. The other one was not returned to Congress; Studds was, 2 more times. (This, of course, gives the columnists a chance to slime "liberal Democrat voters" for their lack of morals.) Barney Frank has also come in for some drubbing, though he was cleared of charges regarding the sleazoid who was running a prostitution ring out of his residence. (Frank is STILL a Senator!)

What's different with Foley is the length of time he was engaging in these shenanigans in secret, while supporting a party (and legislation) that shows up his hypocrisy--and the leadership knew it, and kept quiet about it. It's the cover-up and the hypocrisy that makes this different.

Whether Foley will ever try to re-enter politics or not--and whether voters support or punish him--is another issue. The question is, what about Hasttert?

[underpants]

99. Yeah they are saying "everyone does it"

Like when there is a riot and the cops grab someone all they have to do is say "Everyone is doing it" and the cops usually let them go....Riiiiiiiiiiiight

[flying_wahini]

100. Newt also refused to pay child support after he left his first wife

and, as I recall, her church took up collections for the kids. I'm sure there is a record around
somewhere about it......

[allisonthegreat]

102. jack ass...n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

103. Just no contest between Monica v. Shaundra Levy or Monica v. Page Boys

Seriously, what the hell are they talking about.

The Republican National Committee, or NAMBLA, certainly has a way of minimizing death, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and statutory rape. :eyes:

[cascadiance]

105. Had to check that I wasn't reading the Onion...

Newt calling Democrats the "worst hypocrites" with sex scandals? After what he was doing on the side while going after Clinton? That's just hilarious!

[depakid]

106. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."

Nothing like being stung by your own words.

Amazing that this guy gets any press at all.

[VaYallaDawg]

107. Surely by now they must have figured out a way to blame Bill Clinton.

[bamacrat]

108. Thats stupid. Bill was getting head from an adult female intern.

Foley was trying to have sex with underage boys. oh yeah we're worse. Asshole.

[TankLV]

109. So? Even if they were (they weren't), THIS IS NOW!

THEY justly condemned them THEN, ALONG WITH THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP.

The main difference NOW is that the REPUKES are doing everything to JUSTIFY or MAKE EXCUSES for THEIR CRIMES - NOW!

We have no complaints about what they did THEN - we want the REPUKES to apply THEIR SAME STANDARDS TO THEMSLEVES - NOW!

[Missy Vixen]

111. Hey, pot? Kettle called. You're still black.

>"What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality," Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy."<

Uh, Newt? Considering the fact that you've been embroiled in at least one of those sex scandals yourself, (how'd you meet your current wife, or is she still your current wife?) you're the last person that should be lecturing anyone on morality.

Fondly,
Julie

[confludemocrat]

113. Misleading title to O.P. Dem scandals WERE worse, nothing about present

they haven't tried that yet, although I'm sure they are digging like mad

[saberjet22]

116. gingrich on morals

that's just what we need--gingrich's opinion on moral matters. who better to lead the way?Bush,perhaps?

[HuffleClaw]

117. erm, isn't he the one who served his divorce papers as she lay

dying in hospital? he really has no business lecturing anyone abuut 'hypocrisy'. i'm surprised they haven't tossed hastert to the wolves and i think their backpedalling and attempts to blame this on a 'liberal conspiracy' has lost them any chance at any meaningful 'damage control' by now. if they shitcan hastert now it'll appear as too little too late.