If what Foley is alleged to have done, exchange overly friendly (sexually explicit) propositioning emails with gay and/or straight male pages under age (after they left the program), he deserves jail. Ba da bing.
Painting the whole Republican party with a pedophilia brush is ridiculous. There is no way any representative would risk his career to cover for a pedophile. Does not compute. Another desperate move by a desperate party five weeks out of an election.
America keep your eye on the ball.
I never heard, "what did the Democrats know and when did they know it," when McGreevey, who left office amid a gay sex scandal, had his expensive gay lover on the government payroll.
Stop the bullshit.
UPDATE: Lopez at NRO writes;
Some points the Speaker's office emphasized on the Foley matter :
—No one in leadership knew about the IMs. They did not surface until Friday.
— The family who contact Rep. Alexander about the e-mail correspondense did not want the e-mails shared.
— The leadership did an internal review immediately as they became aware of the instant messages on Friday.
There's a lot more here.
UPDATE: Hmmmm. the plot thickens. At the American Thinker;
I think there should be an investigation, but the subject of it should not be the Republican leadership which—like the newspaper which had the comparatively mild emails between Foley and a former page — could not investigate further because the parents of the 16 year old who had initiated the correspondence wanted to protect his privacy. These emails, which led to a warning to pages to keep a certain distance from Foley, were of a far different character than the explicit IM messages, which were only revealed to the House leadership after appearing in the press.
Once the House leadership was appraised of the incriminating messages, Foley was in effect cashiered out.
The important matter requiring investigation is how a recently-created anonymous blogger got the email correspondence which the boy’s parents had insisted be kept quiet. And how the blog site, which had virtually no posts and no traffic suddenly caught the attention of Foley’s opponent who immediately asked for an investigation.
How it is that ABC ran with a story based on this blog when a year earlier even the BDS-afflicted Daily Kos rejected as improbable the story that Foley was a predatory troller of interns.
Is it at all believable that overnight after ABC broadcast and published the innocuous email correspondence it was suddenly sent years-old, salacious Instant Messages purportedly between Foley and men (ages and identities not disclosed)? Why were these IM messages ready to be sent off and published at a moment’s notice?
Is it believable that Brian Ross, who has written so many stories that didn’t hold up—including his insistent claim that Speaker Hastert was under DoJ investigation in the face of vehement denials from both Hastert and the DoJ—would write a fair account of the incident?
Is it believable that Soros’ C.R.E.W. did not share the email correspondence it had with ABC, and time the release of them and the announcement that they had forwarded them to the FBI for investigation, to coincide with the ABC story? The IM’s carried the far more salacious content, and their provenance is still murky. When and how did C.R.E.W. come into possession of the IM’s, and when did they contact the FBI?
The timing of the two-step release is critical to the political efficaciousness of the operation. The public is being led to conflate the different sets of correspondence (mildly inappropriate emails versus salacious IM messages), leading most people to believe the sexually explicit stuff was what Hastert had seen.
UPDATE: More skullduggery hat tip Lar;
via Drudge to Radar On Line
You end up here at DailyKos before the Foley story broke:
I have been reading with interest the various discussions with regard to Congressman Mark Foley. I am a White House Intern and have been in personal contact with Congressman Foley on numerous occasions.
Today I Googled Congressman Foley and came upon this website:
http://www.stopsexpredators.blogspot.com/
I was just shocked by what I found. I am especially upset by the dismissive attitudes I found on the web from those who know about Congressman Foley's bad behavior in Washington. I'm sure his conservative base in Florida would not approve of him sending these suggestive and leading emails to underage interns.
Only one problem with the alleged intern's post. You can search that domain from now until forever and it doesn't appear to hit to Foley's name. That post has to be bogus.
Gay Patriot has the clearest non partisan take here;
Did it ever occur to Mr. Corn that the representatives and Senators he mentions that may or may not have gay staffers do not care about their sexual orientation yet value their participation as public servants? Is it not rational that you can hire a gay staffer, but at the same time oppose PUBLIC POLICY POSITIONS that you are morally or philosophically opposed to without being labeled a homophobe?
Perhaps Mr. Corn is ignoring the fact that most gay conservatives identify more strongly in our American Identity than our Gay Identity. Did that ever cross your mind, Mr. Corn? Probably not since you seem to have had no problem outing a CIA agent and then letting others take the fall for your actions.
I am not surprised that this is where we are headed. But my question is…. why have our national gay organizations (HRC, Log Cabin, NGLTF) not stepped in to stop this witchhunt which originated on the Gay Left in the first place? I think we know the answer. Tolerance and diversity of opinion is a one-way street for the Gay Liberals and their masters in the Democrat Party.
By the way, the only people that are advancing or talking “The List” that I’ve seen are Liberals! And that List was begun by Gay Leftists years ago.
This witchhunt has got to stop.
