Foley Versus Clinton

[CatWoman]

"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."
-- Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach, September 12, 1998, referring to Bill Clinton in the St. Petersburg Times.

Another one-two punch of karmic irony for Republicans. First, there was James West, Republican Mayor of Spokane, Washington, noted for vigorously opposing gay rights measures until he was caught exchanging messages with someone he thought was a 17-year-old boy on a gay website.

Then Virginia Representative Edward Schrock, a staunch Republican backed by the Christian Coalition, left a message on a gay phone dating service looking for a partner to "get together with a guy from time to time just to -- just to play... get naked, play, and see what happens." Nothing wrong with that, unless by day you are a howling, vitriolic advocate for a Constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Unlike Schrock, Foley voted moderately on gay rights issues. Unfortunately for Foley, when he got caught IM'ing a teenage Congressional page, he also happened to be Co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children Caucus. And the House leadership knew and protected Foley. Which we all know is what this scandal is really about.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshuah-bearman/foley-versus-clinton_b_30728.html

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP

Instant Karma's gonna get ya!

[CatWoman]

5. that guy, Ed Schrock,

was another Virginian racist asshole.

Plus, he was tight with Falwell before his fall from grace.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5870077/

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The Repukes attract hypocrites like sh*t attracts flies.

[eFriendly]

3. The party of Abe Lincoln and the party of Teddy Roosevelt has become

the party of pedophiles and perverts.

[hippiechick]

4. ... and yet the GOP party faithful will still howl

... at every opportunity about a consensual heterosexual affair between two ADULTS (Clinton/Lewinsky) while at the same time forgiving, whitewashing and pooh-poohing Foley's homosexual pedophilic predatory tendencies toward young males.


:puke: :spank: :mad:

[underpants]

6. They're all gay

I,of course, have nothing to prove this but this is one of my own personal conspiracy theories.

I don't mean that in an accusatory way I really do think that what became the elite of the elite in the think tanks recruited gays at Harvard (mostly) and Yale-some other Ivy League type schools- back in the late 60's and early 70's. These were social darwinists who held tightly the belief that these were clearly superiorly bred gene pools that had distinguished themselves from the pack of immigrants of the early part of the century. They needed capable bodies and the fact that these men were gay meant that they would forever be loyal as their ultimate fear of being outed could be held over their heads. The rest, as they say, is just wearing a suit and hanging the diploma.

Cheney
Bolton
Roberts
Alito
Norquist
Drier (not Harvard)
etc.

[Flubadubya]

8. But the problem is not that they might be gay...

the problem is that they are very well established hypocrites! :eyes:

[Philosoraptor]

7. Karma is a harsh bitch goddess

to think that foley will be subject to the very laws he sponsored to protect minors from pedophiles.