and this isn’t hypocritical how?

This Foley pederast business has made it clear that the remaining 30%+ of the country that backs the GOP have really collectively lost their minds. Nobody with even a semblance of understanding what it should mean to be a U.S. citizen should be throwing in with this lot.

We do know that “everyone” in D. C. knew that Foley was gay, and we know that liberals had threatened to “out” him before the election. And apparently several young men reported that Foley was overly friendly with them. Foley was specifically asked to stop corresponding with the one former page who said that Foley “creeped him out.”

But if Hastert had officially reprimanded Foley based on only those allegations, Hastert would have been pilloried up and down D. C. as a McCarthyite gay basher. Foley would have been turned into a gay rights martyr, and we might never have known about his predatory behavior with underage boys. Alter all, the private lives of adults are no one’s business, are they?

Of course Democrats probably wouldn’t care, because once again they would be given the opportunity to sack Hastert, only under this hypothetical circumstance the charge would be hypocrisy, McCarthyism, homophobia, and gay-bashing.

Unfortunately the Democrats blew this one big-time. By calling for Hastert’s resignation and a full investigation into the entire House Republican leadership before most people even knew what Foley was charged with, they prematurely gave away their ultimate strategy, and proved that sacking Republicans –not justice for Foley’s victims — was their primary goal.

By the way, I wonder why no one has bothered to interview Gerry Studds. I would think that a story about “the man who did the same thing as Mark Foley and got away with it” would make an interesting Nightline or Dateline NBC piece.

Just great. That’s why Dems lose elections. Too many people are just too lazy to do the kind of grassroots photosphopping the party needs.