Republican Party Ethics

“It seems some of the Republicans knew about this for some time.

Must be that "man/boy love" thing you keep bringing up, huh SS?
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“Stop this
Stovey
Stomping
I'm gettin' mad!!!!!!”

“The man/boy thing has been part of the Dem story for years.
It's only an issue when Reps do it. It's OK and approved for Dems.

Gerry Stubbs, Dem, admited to bending an underage boy page over, but he claimed it wasn't anyone's business, the Dem party backed him up, and kept reelecting him for several terms untill he retired. The Dems never even thought of punishing him.

Crane did it with an underage girl page and the Reps kicked him out at the next election.

You Dems are acting like homosexually is a bad thing. Your hypocrisy is clear.”

“Pay back is hell....



Fun too ;-)”

“How did the Plame lies work out for you, steve?
[VBG]”

“OK, sooooo were not supposed to mention if the other party does it??????

Isn't that hypocrisy ?

Typical argument thew gang bangers use to give..

"Well he did it first"

So that makes it OK?

Duh!”

“Gee, catchy come back.

Change the subject.”

“Fair is fair. If the Dems thought it was OK for Stubbs, it is hypocrisy for the Dems to think otherwise about Foley.

That's the way it works.

DUH!
[VBG]
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“"That's the way it works".



Stupid is as stupid does ;-)”

“You poor Dems really are angry, dense, and dishonest.
That is why you continue to lose election after election.
LOL”

“Gosh SS, that really shook me to the core.

Your responses are getting kinda sad my friend.



But sad in a good way ;-)
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“Revel in your hypocrisy, steve.”

“Sticks and stones as the voter atones.”

“Ha ha ha !!!

Another one bites the...................”

“More Republican hypocrisy....

Foley E-Mails 1st Reported in Fall '05

Sep 30, 7:12 PM (ET)
By DEVLIN BARRETT

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy. Hastert's office said aides referred the matter to the proper authorities last fall but they were only told the messages were "over-friendly."

Reynolds, R-N.Y., was told about e-mails sent by Rep. Mark Foley and is now defending himself from Democratic accusations that he did too little. Foley, R-Fla., resigned Friday after ABC News questioned him about the e-mails to a former congressional page and about sexually suggestive instant messages to other pages.

Complete story”

“But hey, I'm sure someone else did the same thing, at another time, in another place, so lets not mention it...LOL

We can do anything we want as long as someone else did it first....right?

That man/boy club thing seems pretty popular with the Right too, huh?”

“You can't blame the Republicans, really. They just want to maintain their power.

If it takes sacrificing a child, so be it.”

“ "over-friendly."

I guess it depends on what your definition of "over-friendly" is....huh?”

“over-friendly or overly-friendly ??

That could be argued ad infinitum.”

“yeah, a republican does something, he resigns. A lib does something, he adds it to his resume. Foley should just change parties. I'm sure the Dems would welcome him in.”

“LOL

Could you rationalize that just a tad more please.

I see your not condemning their actions, just attacking the libs.

Thats a good Republican.”

“How about those Republicans that knew about it for months and months?

Why do you hate America so much? Willing to let possible pedophilia go on for the sake of an election. Why were they so willing to sacrifice a child for votes?”

“Sure, I condem the actions. Only the dems would try to find some way to accept this and keep him around. Given that you realize that I'm a republican, I just figured you would know that I would condem it. Guess that would just require too much thought on the part of a lib.”

“How would I know you would condemn it?

Some of my best friends are Wing Nuts, the FIRST thing they said about this was how they would like to string the SOB up.

The first thing the Wing Nuts do on this site is attack the libs...nooooooo mention that they think this guy or the party did anything wrong.

Funny, many of my friends are cops, CHP, DOJ, Prosecutors/DA's and such...they consider me a Moderate Consertive...as I do.

Yet you, who doesn't even know me, label me as a lib...perhaps because I don't speak the talking points? I speak what I think, against who ever, I don't let the party tell me what to think.
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“BTW, the leadership knew about this since 2005. They kept him around and did nothing. He left voluntarily and only because the messages were leaked to the press.

So, Republicans DID in fact look at the evidence and decide to keep him around.

We don't need an investigation for this. We need multiple and immediate resignations.”

“Oh, and every second that the Republican leadership spends on this issue is another second that they don't have to develop a plan for Iraq.

What's the plan?”

“Yea, pretty much blows the...

"Only the dems would try to find some way to accept this and keep him around".

argument away don't it.”

“I love how this all comes out on a Friday.

It always does. Let's dump the bad news and hope the weekend innoculates us.

Also, in the REPUBLICAN REVISIONIST HISTORY file, Colin Powell now says that he was fired rather than the FACT that he resigned.

The dude is trying to make a comeback. But he's the worst kind of fool. He went against his own morals and ethics and presented that sham of a case to the UN.

But, personally, I think this makes him look even more like a ninny. No, it wasn't his own personal choice to remove himself from a corrupt administration. They had to force him out.

I wonder what his plan is for Iraq?”

“Greasy Stove Man:

You are wrong on Studds on several accounts.

1) Studds was censured and the censure was supported by many Dems. Some called for his ouster.
2) There was no attempted cover-up with Studds, as there may have been this time.
2) Studds did have a consensual relationship with a male page ten years before the word got out. The male page made no complaint. In fact, he stood by Studds as an adult and defended him when the scandal broke. Your Republican guy was making unwanted advances towards pages and at least one complained. Do you have any info that says Studds was making unwanted advances on anyone?”

“However, the Democratic outrage seems mostly designed to hurt the Republicans politically.

Both parties do this.
For example, I don't know what was more ridiculous, the Democrats acting outraged that Bush had tried to score political points with his 9/11 speech this year, or Bush and the Republicans denial that he tried to use it to score points.”

“DeadXing!

I don't think that there is anything wrong with either party trying to point out the shortcomings of the opposition party.

We have an adversarial political system and that's life.

But it wasn't Democrats who sent sexually explicit messages to a teenager.

And if they knew about this in 2005 and didn't take care of business, it serves them right to have this come out one month from election day.

It's their own damned fault.

And the guy would still be in Congress, sending messages to teens if it hadn't been for someone leaking this. It's completely irresponsible.

And if you've watched the President at all lately, you realize that he has nothing to run on. All he can do is create an enemy of the Democrat Party and hope that enough Republicans are outraged enough to come out and vote.

Yeah. The Democrats are supposed to sit around and do nothing. Screw that.”

“BTW, do you really think it's an accident that we had not one, but two al qaeda tapes on the nightly news this evening.

One was directly attributable to the administration. The other came from a "reliable source."

They classify all of this information and then, when it's politically expedient, they release it.

So, they have a sex scandal and Reporter-God Bob Woodward on their case this week.

Well, dudes, let's look through the video library again.

I bet they have dozens of these things. They're like gold, you know.”

“And now a historical flashback....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Congressional_page_sex_scandal”

“Uh huh, and meanwhile Bagdad is burning.”

“Hey mark? hows life in Haiti these days...I mean the LEFT in this nation pushed for sending in the 82nd (granted with only 15 rounds a piece) but how is life down there these days?

OH thats right its still a cesspool....but now it is a liberal cesspool.”

“ya gotta give it to republican leaders though.... they really know how to manipulte the densest of morons out there, and keep them LOCK-STEP!”

“LOL...Mr. Bear don't you mean Goose Step....come on you know you are out of ammo, accuse us of being Nazis and lets get it over with.”

“Great. Now Foley is using the "i take full responsibility. It was the alcohol" dodge.


I expect that Gomer "stove" pile o'crap will go off on Foley the way he did on Patrick Kennedy at this point.


republican leadership sits on this information for a full year before acting.

An ordinary person, one with a sense of shame and proportion would no longer use broad sweeping accusations of "the dems to do that' and "the Libbies do this" . .especially considering that the Repulicans leaderships hands are all over this.


But I don't expect that will stop Stovie from his continued LOL routine.

Gibbering idiot. he and Moonpie are what a Marine in my office calls a$$-pals.

I hope this is the icing on the cake that loses the Republicans both houses in November.”

“"And the guy would still be in Congress, sending messages to teens if it hadn't been for someone leaking this. It's completely irresponsible."
- reformed lurker


The majority of Republicans think buggering teenage boys is just fine.”

“I can't see how this guy can blame alchohol. I've had beer goggles a few times in my life, but it never made me admire teenage boys.”

““Great. Now Foley is using the "i take full responsibility. It was the alcohol" dodge.


I expect that Gomer "stove" pile o'crap will go off on Foley the way he did on Patrick Kennedy at this point.

MUSK

LOL...I would think the whole Ted Kennedy and Mary Ann thing would be much more effective...so how is the liberal swimming pool these days?”

“FUEGO, you are making no sense......as usual.

Maybe you are a firefighter with a few loose screws.”

“Nothing to see here, move along...

Based upon the Democratic Standard of Pat Kennedy going into rehab, all must be forgiven.
Foley has gone into rehab also.

Surely all you Dems will not hold a Rep to a different standard than you do your own?
[VBG]”

“Hell, I won't hold a Republican no how!”

“http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2001/08/outreach.html

Opening of the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Visitors Center
By Debbie Hutchinson
August 2001

On July 21st, the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary opened its public Visitors Center in Provincetown, MA. The center is located adjacent to the Center for Coastal Studies, a private, non-profit organization devoted to research, conservation and education in coastal and marine environments (not to be confused with the USGS St. Pete Center for Coastal Studies!!). Prominently displayed at the entrance to the building is the USGS/NOAA multibeam bathymetric map of the sanctuary, along with a touch-screen exhibit of bottom photos and examples of geologic habitats, using work by Page Valentine and Dann Blackwood. The exhibit provides an overview of the sanctuary, its history, resources, management issues, and of course excellent introductory material about the whales for which the sanctuary is so well known.

Among the dignitaries speaking at the ribbon-cutting ceremony were former Representative Gerry E. Studds, for whom the sanctuary is named, and current 10th Congressional Representative Bill Delahunt. Debbie Hutchinson attended the event representing the USGS. USGS efforts in contributing to sanctuary studies and to exhibits in the center were graciously and publicly recognized by Congressman Delahunt and Craig MacDonald, Sanctuary Manager, during the ceremony. After the speeches, ribbon-cutting ceremony, and light refreshments for the invited guests, the Visitors Center was opened to the public.

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Studds admitted having sex with a boy page, in the U.S. Capital Building, in 1983 - but being a democrat stayed in congress until "honorably" retiring in 1996.
The Republicans should immediately claim Gerry Studds, Jim McGreevey, Mel Reynolds, and Gary Condit as "Honorary Republicans", just to cause them to lose credibility within their own cohorts. LOL
[VBG]”

“So what is the democrats' response to the Gerry Studds hypocrisy???”

“A Republican staff member warned congressional pages five years ago to watch out for Congressman Mark Foley, according to a former page.

Matthew Loraditch, a page in the 2001-2002 class, told ABC News he and other pages were warned about Foley by a supervisor in the House Clerk's office.

Loraditch, the president of the Page Alumni Association, said the pages were told "don't get too wrapped up in him being too nice to you and all that kind of stuff."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/gop_staff_warne.html





FIVE YEARS they knew he was a sexual predator but did nothing about it, just to protect a seat. These #&%!$ing Republicans don't care about anything but power.”

“lets see...Ron Brown, Charlie Tree, Buddhist Monks, Loral Aerospace...etc etc...each of them played a GIANT part in the fact that the Left Coast can now become a nuclear cinder from North Korea or the Chicoms....(LOL)..

Then lets not forget Barney Frank....All still heroes in the left.”