Amateur hour, but more important issues are on the plate for voters this time around. Might hurt wity base turnout in some areas.

Might hurt base turnout? No, this is going to torpedo base turnout.

Again, the dems are going to OVERPLAY THEIR HAND.

They are goign to act all high and mighty and all the republicans have to do is remind Dems that the Senator for Hawaii and Barney frank are STILL in congress.

And as far as I can tell, the parents asked that they not pursue the matter.

It went up the chain of command. They were told he was just overly friendly. They told him not to email or IM the boy agian. What else should they have done?

We have Democrats with million dollar bribes caught on tape. This man touched no one (that we know about).

The kid was sixteen (age of consent) but again, there was no touching and the kid no longer worked on the hill.

HEY Charles !

I have to disagree, understand your frustration, but one loser is not important in regards to the defense of Our Nation...

this is the highest priority, and even if Republicans are foolish in some aspects, the threat of the liberal Democrat Party is a nightmare.

I highly doubt the Republicans had serious details about this ugly man named Foley, we must be wary of the 'drive by' spin.

they are desperate, and it shows. Pirro (far from perfect) is facing a similar slander campaign, as Allen is...

instead of a constructive platform, we see high profile character slime games.

and yet, it seems whenever a Republican is corrupt, negligent, disturbing, these days, they get the boot.

Unlike the Democrats...
Remember Gerry Studds?

http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/does-anybody-in-our-media-remember-gerry-studds

Quoting you, Mr. Lack of Consistency:

How "enlightened" of you.

A. Foley is not a pedophile. He's sick and his behavior is contemptable - but 16y/os are NOT children. The are post pubescent.

B. Many people have many latent desires that are brought to the fore because of substance abuse.

C. As far as we know, he didn't touch anyone. Where was your consternation against Patrick Kennedy? He was DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE and crashed. He could have killed someone. And let us not forget Bill Clinton setting the gold standard on how interns should be treated.

hnav, I don't know what to do. This isn't the only thing that the Republicans have done to lose me (remember when they were the conservative party? they ain't anymore), but this is sick. Hang Foley. Seriously, hang him. But hang anyone who knew about him and covered it up. Period.

If it turns out that they truly, honestly, had no clue, and that a reasonable person wouldn't pick up on it...fine. But I don't think so. I think the Republicans are full of themselves and they need a SMACKDOWN.

Charles, what on earth does this have to do with their [in]ability to govern?

I wasn't aware I mentioned an ability or inability to govern. I'm pretty sure I've been b*tching about policy initiatives that they did or did not take, but when it come to pork-barrel spending they seem to have no problem governing.

You know paul, I've almost given up on asking you to read what you comment on, but you can at least do a word search to find out if you're anywhere near the conversation, can't you?

Well, we were discussing voting turnout, which I hope is based on ability to govern, and not this other morality bullshit.

So...you made an assumption as to what turnout is based on, despite massive evidence to the contrary, despite the issues I and other conservative bloggers have clearly identified, and after making this leap of faith youa ssumed everyone else knew what you were thinking. Coming from anyone else that would be stunning, but I suppose it's par for the course.

I shouldn't ask, but what the hell is the ability to govern? Govern in what way? What policies would be implemented? Ah, but wait, deciding on a policy course is something that you call moral bullshit.

On second thought, don't explain, you'll only make it worse.