[Grovenet] bad politics

[Meredith Bliss]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 14:36, Krystof Zmudzinski wrote:

>   I'm confused.  You seemed to be defending Gerry Studds who did have sex
> with a minor and took a minor not only across state lines but to a
> different country.  So sex with a minor is OK but not IMs.  And Studds
> stayed.  Foley is gone.  What else should Republicans do?

Boy, talk about the straw man argument! As far as I can tell, no one ever 
mentioned Gerry Studds. I had to do a Google search to figure out that you 
were talking about a representative who was censured in 1983 for "a 1973 
relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page who was of the age of 
legal consent, according to state law at the time." And he stayed because he 
was re-elected several times after that. Foley immediately resigned after 
learning that his true tastes would be made public, that's quite a bit 
different. 

>   If there was a crime and if there is a cover-up (which in itself may not
> be criminal) that's one thing.

And as in the "Plame affair," just because prosecutors decided that they could 
not win a conviction doesn't mean either that a crime was not committed or 
that voters have no right to expect accountability.

>   Right now, this whole thing stinks and I wouldn't be surprised if there
> were indeed some Democratic party operatives involved but I'm not about to
> hurl accusations

That would be a first (but I think you just did anyway)!

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