So now does the GOP stand for Grand O'Party or Grand O'Pediphiles?

Congressman Foley has been caught soliciting sex from a minor, he has resigned but the only outrage the two of you can muster is with the manner in which the story was broken.

Is this what the GOP has come to? Forget that the Congressman has committed a crime, forget he is a "child predator" let's just see how much "damage control" we can do, how much "spin" we can apply to the obvious truth in order to make the Dems look bad and save Foley's seat in the upcoming election.

Jeez, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Certainly, there is something political in it. What specifically that might be however, eludes me at the moment. I simply don't have enough to go on. But it does strike me as a little bit strange that so many people knew about this, and yet it never shows up in the rumor mills, until a couple of months before the mid-term elections.

Consider closely the timing, and the path, here. The way this is going to ramp up is, that there's going to be all kinds of screaming and hollering and carrying on for "who knew what when", fingers pointing all the while at Republican leaders, and the election will be here before those questions are answered. Rather precise timing, for the release of that info, now, wouldn't you say?

Now, let me be clear... none of this should be construed to be in defense of Foley himself. I will neither attack nor defend him at this point... First, in my opinion such acts are unforgavable. But on the other hand, we simply don't know enough about the chain of evidence in what we have before us, so as to make an educated judgement in the matter.

However even assuming, just for the moment, that Foley is guilty of what the Democrats charge, the timing of the release of that information seems to me politically motivated. That's particularly true when one considers the method by which it was passed along, by means of one of the rapid far left bloggers. One could easily question how is that that information ended up in this bloggers hands just now. And, should, I think.

Given the actions of Democrats in past years, and given their level of desperation and losing the last several actions running, I don't think it unfair to suggest the possibility that what we have here is at least partially an "October Surprise".

Just what the Republicans needed. Just 5 weeks out and this comes out about Foley.
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Six-term Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida resigned from the U.S. Congress on Friday following reports he sent sexually inappropriat...

While pushing through bills to legalize torture and strip habeas corpus, Hastert was simultaneously covering up for a suspected sexual predator.

Earlier reporting about Foley's emails did not make any references to email of a sexually explicit nature, which is why the earlier reporting didn't catch my attention. This particular report certainly puts those email communications in a different l...

John Cole has great stuff on Foley's courageous crusade against pedophilia, child porn, etc. I have inferred that "Protect Your Children from People Like Me!" didn't go over well with his focus group, hence his resignation.

James:

Another story on ABC's The Blotter indicates that there were some IMs that had sexually explicit content. I linked to it here.

The whole thing is bizarre.

While Foley obviously had to go after this, it also means one more seat being handed to the Democrats.

Yes. If the damn Democrats hadn't dredged this pedophilia thing up we could have saved a seat. The traitors!

Full Disclosure- Before commenting I must tell that my wife has met the Congressman's parents but not Mark Foley himself. The Foleys were at one time parrishoners at the same Roman Catholic Church dear wife and I attend and where DW works as church r....