We don’t think that being gay and Republican is a crime… unless stupidity has also been made a crime by the Stalin administration. Why anyone would ally themselves with a party that is absolutely dedicated to their complete and utter annihilation is completely beyond me.

But stupidity, the last time I checked (and frequent requests for DOJ and congressional documents through the FOIA wouldn’t be a bad idea) is not a crime.

If it were, Bush would’ve been executed decades ago.

No, the Democrat party would have told people it was no big deal, and then re-elected him to several more terms. Like Gerry Studds (molester) Ted Kennedy (murderer) and Bill Clinton (rapist).

Foley’s was a safe seat, which meant they could use the money elsewhere, in more vulnerable seats. When they received the information about Foley, if they knew that nothing would ever be said about it, they might have made the pragmatic decision that sleeping with the devil (keep Foley, a possible child molester) was better than forcing him to resign, electing another candidate (less well known and more risky) and having the possibilty of a Democrat filling the seat. So they made the pragmatic decision to sacrifice the well being of the page for the well being of the Republican party.

The problem was, they didn’t count on the devil biting them back in the butt.

And before anyone like NDT starts slamming me about being so liberal, I believe the Democratic party would have done the same thing if they were in the same position.

Ah, but you see, DanielFTL, I already have proven it.

I believe the Dems are following your playbook. Have a nice day.

Actually, what everyone else sees is you making this claim:

The only thing that matters here is how universally bad it is for all gay men. This Foley jackass has provided more ammunition for those opposed to homosexuality on the grounds that gay men prey on children.

Your argument that you do not say that Foley is gay in that paragraph is quite incomprehensible; after all, you claim that Foley’s behavior is bad for all gay men and that he has provided more proof that homosexuals prey on children.

How in the world can that be the case unless you are claiming he is a homosexual?

Also, inadvertently, you prove my point, If you and your fellow Democrats weren’t running around screaming that Foley is gay, Peter LaBarbera would look like an idiot (”He spoke at the LCR convention! He must be gay!”). But instead, you have to hand the man “evidence”, don’t you?

Actually, it is just as likely that right wingnuts will also use this as a golden opportunity to eliminate as many gay people from the Republican party–at least from positions of authority, elected and otherwise–as they can.

Which might be exactly puppet RajIan’s point.

By handing the wingnuts ammunition to use by claiming that Foley was gay and that’s why he was a pedophile, in RajIan’s twisted mind, that will punish those Republicans who dared to stray from the Democratic plantation and aren’t, like him, sitting there claiming that politicians who harbor prostitutes like Barney Frank, rape minors like Studds, use being gay as an excuse for public sex and corruption, like McGreevey, and demand amendments to strip gays of rights, like John Kerry and Inez Tenenbaum, are “pro-gay” and “gay-supportive”.

Unfortunately, not only is it counterproductive, it isn’t working. Even on DanielFTL’s FreeRepublic link, they are making it very clear that this whole Foley thing is about the pedophilia, not anything else — a fact made abundantly clear by every other Republican to which I talked.

Instead, though, we have RajIan, IanRaj, DanielFTL, and other gay Democrats lining up in support of Peter LaBarbera, claiming that Foley was a pedophile because he was gay. (claps) Brilliant.

Daniel, you have to realize this is N-Dobson-T’s M.O. He will argue black is white, up is down, day is night, etc. ad nauseum…. He’s probably going to really lose it when “Speaker Pelosi” becomes a fact of life for him that he can’t deny.

The dissembler NDT has already lost it. He posts over at the PamSpaulding blog under another handle (it’s fairly obvious that it is he). And a few weeks ago he was ridiculed at the Malcontent web site for his blo(g)viations. I don’t bother responding to him any more, because it is clear that he is a dissembler.

Matty’s posts are largely fact-free, but NDT is a dissembler.

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