Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
No one is defending this guy. We are pointing out the abject hypocrisy of Democrats who are howling that this is some kind of stain on the entire Republican party, when the same Democrats excused far worse behavior from their own party members.
As for throwing around the term "pedophile", I don't think it fits. This guy Foley was obviously a closet homo, like former Gov. McGreevey of NJ, and was using his position in ocngress to look for guys. But the page in question was a high school student, not a first grader. Are liberals now saying that high school boys should not engage in homo sex? If not, why do they support all these gay lesbian transexual transgender clubs and organizations? Why don't they denounce NAMBLA?
Bottom line this is another election season stink bomb thrown by the Democrats. Apparently at least some of the messages were three years old, according to what Hastert said. There was no evidence of any sexual conduct and in fact the messages indicated that there had not been any.
That's not to say this wasn't highly inappropriate, but I hope it doesn't crowd out the real issues of this election, like macaca and Sen. Allen's jewish grandfather and whether he used the "n" word thirty years ago.