Replies to post #22022 on From All Angles

[Dolly Llama]

It really is sickening. Also sickening was that some prominent Republicans were starting to use the pedophile card against gays as a way to get around the Foley scandal. Pat Buchanan's wife, for example, was saying that Foley was a "known homosexual", as if that meant that he should never have been allowed near minors in the first place because he's gay. Makes my blood boil when people equate gays with pedophiles, since there are actually far more straight pedophiles, given that there are more straights, and the percentage of pedophiles is the same in both straights and gays, despite which group is getting the most media attention.

I think those Repubs will be shutting up now that the man who killed the Amish girls in Pa. has been discovered to have been a pedophile. It's all so ugly.

[Dolly Llama]

I totally agree.

I wouldn't have wished this kind of disgrace on the Republicans, but then I think back to the two years of impeachment they inflicted on the country over Bill and Monica. Before this Foley mess happened it looked like they were going to lose the House next month. Now they may also lose the Senate because of trying to cover up the scandal rather than deal with it as they should have. I say it's poetic justice.