Tuesday, October 03, 2006
More Foley
Hastert goes “on the offensive,” because God knows you can’t be on the defensive in politics in this country (even if you should be defending yourself), and claims that the Foley scandal is being used as a tool by democrats to swing an election. Hannity jumped on board the bandwagon and painted the scandal’s timing as part of a democratic conspiracy to affect the election. These moral inbreds just can’t criticize one of their own members and then let the situation lie. It, in some way, has to be partly the democrat’s fault. I’m sure some editorials will follow blaming the scandal on Bill Clinton or the liberal culture of accepting homosexuality. Oh, wait. That’s already happened. I am not kidding. I just discovered this commentary on Thinkprogress. Unbelievable. See? When a Republican turns out to be a gay sexual predator, it’s liberals’ fault.
Meanwhile, conservatives respond to the scandal by smearing homosexuals. I have written about this before. Smearing gays as de facto pedophiles is written into the DNA of religious conservative groups, people, and the politicians they send to Washington. It’s par for the course for them. Even relatively mild conservative commentators like Jonah Goldberg just can’t resist.
You see, almost everything is liberals’ fault. Columbine? The result of teaching evolution in schools and allowing abortion, of course. This man isn’t some random lunatic, either. As I have previously written on this blog, Tom DeLay echoed his opinion at the time of the shootings.
This as the scandal worsens, and ABC uncovers evidence that Foley had internet sex with a page while awaiting a vote. Reynolds, the republican who was originally informed of the situation, literally surrounded himself with a human shield of children at a recent press conference and refused to ask the children to leave so a frank discussion of the sexually-charged issue could take place. Wow. He was literally hiding behind children. That is one of the lowest political stunts I have ever seen.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 3:04 PM 
