Will the Foley scandal result in a gay Republican witchhunt?
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This is quite possible. \n\nMore and more ppl are beginning to realize there are A LOT of gay Republican politicians that are well hidden in their closets.
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Soon I hope....this man is a menace...a joke to the republican Party...stop him now!
1022784
No, No and No.  Right now, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson are crowing in delight over the rift  the right has caused. They practically come out and say Bush's election was their victory.\n  Bush was advised very carefully on this sticky wicket and, again, as with gay marriage and immigration pulled off a diversionary tactic to divide us and take attention off the greater issues.  God guides him, so he says. We know he uses God.  And the sooner the Christian Right wakes up, the better
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I'm so sick of staunch conservatives bringing up the Clinton scandal.  Almost every president we've ever had, had mistresses. Apparently there was a time when the media didn't feel the need to air dirty laundry. It is rather comical, however, that the same people lampooning morality and declaring gay marriage a sin often turn out to be a pedifiles and closet homosexuals.
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and don't forget the man/boy sex relationshiops that is sitting in the wings.  They already have a large lobby group within the democratic party also.  \n\nOnce we say that gay is born that way, and we have to respect them because they are born that way,  then the pedophone or "child lover"  merely comes next since they are born that way, can't help theirself,  and can't be discriminated against either..\n\nAnd they will laugh at me today, I said this same thing in the early 70's about gays and everyone laughed and said no, no one would ever allow and accept gay marriage\n\nThe democrats at heart, which too many southern democrats just can't understand want to do away with anything religiouis and adapt a open society with no morality based on any religion ( esp Christian)
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Absolutely it is with George Bush and his warrant less wire tapping. I am sure they are listening in on the Democrats just like Nixon did with Watergate. The Republican party will never have enough power to shut up the American people even with all of the abuse and dirty tricks strategies. They have exposed their true agendas and America is shutting them down daily. November will be a new fruit of Democracy with a Democrat Congress, and the return of the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.
781346
damn republican preachers. As gay as the Republicans on this site!
771486
Ok first off, being a pedophile has nothing to do with being gay. \n\nI honestly can't answer this question... I don't know why they choose to defy themself. My only answer, being an ex-Republican, is that they choose to deny themselves for other reasons of their party.
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The Foley scandal occured after the deadline for changing the ballot, so even though Foley dropped out, his name appears on the ballot.\n\nThe disturbing thing is, under Florida law, the Republicans can assign any votes that are cast for Foley to some other Republican candidate. In other words, they can ignore the name that is printed on the ballot, and treat the vote as having been cast for "Whoever the Republicans Nominate".\n\nPretty much defeats the entire purpose of voting, if the person whose name is on the ballot isn't necessarily the person who gets assigned the vote.
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This is what I find unacceptable. Are there that many sheep in America that this question even needs to be asked? We have Evangelical leaders railing against Gays and then we find he is paying for gay-sex and taking drugs. \n\nAll joking aside, I am sick of all these moralists and 'god-fearing' people who turn out to be bloodthirsty, warmongering, sexual deviants. WAKE UP AMERICA.
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If nothing else, wouldn't it be great seeing Hollywood jump ship on the liberals if Phelps was a running mate? Surely they don't mind the funeral protests, but the gay bashing thing would most definitely sever that cord.\n\nWho knows? Maybe even Michael Moore would finally shut the f*ck up.
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I'm Republican, and you bet your ass I hold my party to a higher standard than I expect from Democrats. Corruption, greed and stupidity are prevalent on BOTH sides of the aisle. I think it would be a nice change if all Americans held politicians to a higher standard!\n\nOn the other hand, it's the total HYPOCRISY that gets irritating. Look at the Mark Foley scandal in comparison to the Gerry Studds mess. Foley, definitely a bottom feeder, just wanted sex with a male page. Studds actually DID it - got an underage male page drunk and had sex with him. Foley was dragged over the coals (as he should have been!) but Studds.....that's a different story. When Studds died, he was hailed by the liberal media for being "the first openly gay congressman". Technically true, but the only reason he "came out" was because he got caught having sex with an underage male page. Don't you think that's a MUCH bigger deal than just some sleazy, smutty emails? THAT'S the kind of thing that a lot of Republicans bitch about, and I do think it's a fair complaint, don't you?
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Mark Foley gets exposed.\n\nRepublican reaction: "The Democrats timed the release of this information to damage us in the election."\n\nHaggard gets exposed.\n\nEvangelists reaction: "The Democrats leveled these false accusation to damage the Republicans in the election." (Oops, I guess they meant to say "true" accusations).\n\n100 U.S. troops die in Iraq in October.\n\nRepublican reaction: "The terrorists are ramping up their attacks just to undermine us in this election." (Lousy US policy has NOTHING to do with the chaos!!!)\n\nSaddam conveniently has has sentencing MOVED UP so that it takes place the day before the US election. \n\nRepublican reaction: "Sheer coincidence."
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Am I concerned?  Very much so.  The other day I saw Rudy Giuliani on TV talking about God in an evangelical church.  Rudy Giuliani!  I was sick to my stomach for about 5 minutes.  It was much easier to look at the pictures of the couple that got bit by bed bugs that they keep showing on TV.  \n\nDo I think it will happen?  No.  The Republican Party is going to lose much of its moderate base if they keep this crap up.  I think that mainstream America is beginning to wake up to the real issues and understand that fundamentalists shouldn't be legislating our morals.
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Pressure on the Dictator first with investigations Bush will have to answer under oath. The Dem's already have the snitches lined up with Abramoff, and Delay, Ney is another one, and I'm sure that sissy Foley will participate too. I didn't want to miss the Evangelist Haggart either.
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And ALL republicans are above reproach right??????\nSorry individuals do not represent a party.........or do they?\nyou decide......\n\nRepublican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later. \nRepublican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy. \nRepublican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet. \nRepublican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl. \nRepublican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable. \nRepublican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. \nRepublican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy. \nRepublican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business. \nRepublican County Chairman Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl. \nRepublican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls. \nRepublican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester. \nRepublican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls. \nRepublican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet. \nRepublican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls. \n=============================================================================================================================================\n\n10. Sen. Daniel Inouye. The 82-year-old Hawaii Democrat was accused in the 1990s by numerous women of sexual harassment. Democrats cast doubt on the allegations and the Senate Ethics Committee dropped its investigation. \n\n9. Former Rep. Gus Savage. The Illinois Democrat was accused of fondling a Peace Corps volunteer in 1989 while on a trip to Africa. The House Ethics Committee decided against disciplinary action in 1990.\n\n8. Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank’s residence in the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.\n\n7. Former Sen. Brock Adams. The late Washington Democrat was forced to stop campaigning after numerous accusations of drugging, assault and rape, the first surfacing in 1988.\n\n6. Former Rep. Fred Richmond. This New York Democrat was arrested in 1978 for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old. He remained in Congress and won re-election—before eventually resigning in 1982 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and drug possession.\n\n5. Former Rep. John Young. The late Texas Democrat increased the salary of a staffer after she gave in to his sexual advances. The congressman won re-election in 1976 but lost two years later. \n\n4. Former Rep. Wayne Hays. The late Ohio Democrat hired an unqualified secretary reportedly for sexual acts. Although he resigned from Congress, the Democratic House leadership stalled in removing him from the Administration Committee in 1976. \n\n3. Former Rep. Gerry Studds. He was censured for sexual relationship with underage male page in 1983. Massachusetts voters returned him to office for six more terms.\n\n2. Former Rep. Mel Reynolds. The Illinois Democrat was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault with a 16-year-old. President Bill Clinton pardoned him before leaving office.\n\n1. Sen. Teddy Kennedy. The liberal Massachusetts sen
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Liberals are supposted to support homosexuality, why is it a problem for liberals that some pastor and Foley turned out to be gay.  I'm a republican and I could care less about gay marriage and the like.  Plus, Foley and that Haggard guy don't represent the entire republican party, me, or any other conservatives