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Noting Charles Krauthammer’s views on the Foley debacle, J.F. Beck observes: “Sex scandals are a big deal for Republicans; for Democrats they’re business as usual.”
Now if Foley had only married that 17 year old boy, he would have behaved in a way totally approved of by Democrats. [They would have approved even if the boy had not received parental approval. After all, it’s OK with them if under age girls get abortions without parental approval, or without parents even being informed.]
I want to know, nay, I demand to know why this news is coming out now. If the Democrats sat on this, for political advantage, to obtain an October surprise, well then heads must roll.
I want their explanation on my desk by morning. Say, 9 am. Not any sooner. I read Tim Blair’s blog and the Wall Street Journal before then.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 08 at 02:27 PM • permalinkDid I say “heads must roll”? Oh yes, I see now I did. Ok. Sorry.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 08 at 02:28 PM • permalink...the Democrats won’t stand by something they don’t have.
Like a spine.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 08 at 02:47 PM • permalinkIt used to be the joke that British Labour had financial scandals and the Tories had sex scandals. You have scandals about whatever you’re repressed about.
The Democrats typically don’t parade themselves as Guardians of The (Sexual) Moral Order. Republicans do. As coverups and hypocrisy are the real bite of scandals, Republican sex scandals operate differently to Democrat sex scandals.
And it doesn’t work trying to turn a Democrat sex scandal into a Republican sex scandal (hence the Republicans’ failure over Bill and Monica). Or vice versa.
So, Lorenzo, we can expect a huge outcry over Congresscritter Jefferson ("Cold Cash"), D. LA, any time now in the MSM? Surely as bad as the one over Duke Cunningham?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 08 at 06:06 PM • permalinkLet’s see, Lorenzo, if I can make some sense of your nonsense. Bill Clinton, holding the highest office of the land with the United States under threat, as he admits, from Mulsim loonies, has sex with an intern
(interns are often the same age as pages) in his office, and with some other females around town in Little Rock, lies about it, then commits perjury (for which he lost his right to plead cases), which is, you might not know this, considered a serious crime, and yet he still remains a hero of the Dhimmos. This you call a failure on the part of Republicans???? And do you think the reason Clinton went wild was because he was repressed? You don’t make sense on other issues you try to raise, like the Dhimmis don’t parade themselves as the Guardians of the Sexual Moral Order. Hey, whose urging Gay Marriage (see Kerry and Swim Master lush Kennedy, both from Mass.) and defaming those who oppose it as bigots? Which party fights for the protection of pedophiles once they’ve served their time, which party advocates condums be given to teen agers in school, which party wants to protect teen agers from their parents when the teens decide to have an abortion, on and on? This party certainly considers itself to be Guardians of a Sexual Moral Order, twisted as many see it.Steyn weighs in:
It’s a good basic rule of thumb that no matter how bad a scandal is, the political class’ response will be worse, largely hysterical and lacking any sense of proportion. But, even by those minimal expectations, this last week has been unbecoming for a serious nation. In London, sex scandals come along every other week. You name it, British parliamentarians do it: three-in-a-bed, auto-erotic asphyxiation, gay teen flagellation, getting your toes sucked while wearing the soccer kit of Chelsea Football Club. But at least at Westminster, sex scandals require actual sex. That the governing party of the world’s only superpower could be felled by one creepy pervert’s masturbatory e-mails and IMs is an event historians will marvel at. Granted that the Roman Empire in its death throes got hung up on gay sex, the American hyperpower seems set to be the first to collapse over gay non-sex.
Lorenzo
It has nothing to do with Republican claims to be moral guardians. It has everything to do with media bias. The media is amoral. They only see news through the prism of political power.
A classic example of this was the drunken physical assault of Senator Jeanne Ferris by left-wing Senator Andrew Bartlett (otherwise known as Andrew Bartltweet) on the floor of the Australian Senate chamber. The silence from Left field was deafening. Bartlett did not resign his post. One could only begin to imagine the faux outrage and gnashing of teeth which would result from say, Tony Abbott man-handling Senator Stott-Despoja.
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The Democrats never had, never have, never will have a sex scandal. Why? Higher moral plane? No, at any level, they have no balls. Moreover, they are still trying to figure out what is meant by “is” and “I’ve never had sex with that [Momica Lewinsky]woman”.