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Rob- the Republicans will certianly lose in the court of public opinion unless they vigorously censoe all R leaders who knew Foley was a pedophile and was pestering pages.

You want to hunker down and blame others for raising a public outcry.  Hunkering didn’t work for the Catholic church, and its the wrong thing for the House Republicans to do.

While Foley’s conduct may or may not have been illegal it was certainly foolish for a politician to put himself in such a position,typically foolish for a political party to turn a blind eye and hope it would pass undetected and unpublicised and doubly foolish for the party to bungle its handling of the case as the facts emerge.

Foley’s indiscretion doesn’t reflect on the Republican party but the inability to candidly explain how the party handled the matter certainly could and thus would be a legitimate election issue.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
*Edmund Burke*

One eyed Jack, Foley was a creepy old man...but he wasn’t a pedophile under the law.

Mike:

the inability to candidly explain how the party handled the matter certainly could and thus would be a legitimate election issue.

You might find this interesting:

Reportedly the St Pete Times had the same information in August 2005 and wrote nothing about it either, apparently because the emails do not constitute illegal conduct, they are just creepy, and the boy’s parents did not wish to pursue this.

The far more damaging IM messages were released by CREW , the same “public interest” group which is representing the Wilson/Plames in their laughable suit against Cheney, et al.

When did they get the IM’s? Why did they wait until now to release them? Is there any indication the Republicans who looked into THIS MATTER had any knowledge of their(the IM’s) existence.

Pardon an old lady’s suspicions. I’ve seen this dance too many times before.

More here.

I, personally, will not be surprised to hear plenty of leftists like you, Mike, try to turn this into a campaign issue to draw attention away from the terrorism/national security issue where Democrats are clearly losing.

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Foley’s indiscretion doesn’t reflect on the Republican party but the inability to candidly explain how the party handled the matter certainly could and thus would be a legitimate election issue.

Style over substance.

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.

This whole thing is the perfect red herring for the demos. It WILL be a distraction from the real issues. This little gift was delivered to the left all tied up with ribbons.

At this point damage control is the best the right can do. This is ammunition the left will use for all it’s worth.

Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

You compared this to the Lewinksy affair.

As far as I know this Foley never committed perjury over his emails.  Clinton did.

That is the difference.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.