From Camille Paglia:

The Foley scandal exploded without any proof of a documented sex act — unlike the case of the late congressman Gerry Studds, who had sex with a page and who was literally applauded by fellow Democrats when they refused to vote for his censure.

The Wikipedia entry on Studd’s life.

Hmmm. Should the Dems have waited for the pervert’s own party (the one that controlled Congress at the time) to “make an issue of it”? Maybe [Redacted] would have eventually brought it up. Yeah, good thinking Doggie! You should teach political science.

Let me get this straight, there are Democratic Senators and/or Congressmen who “applauded” other Democratic politicians having sex with boys? By “boys” do you mean males under 18yo? Please Dog, I beg you. Provide us all with some links to this juicy tale. I’m only thinking about how it could get any more bizarre. Maybe if the “Democrat” preached intolerance of gays or voted yes on anti-gay legislation? This sounds like a real blockbuster, Big [Redacted]! Hook us up with a link or two yo!

Most folks on the right call for the removal of these kinds of people. We can’t affect those in private business but I don’t know any Conservative who said Foley should stay.

I wrote about it several times. What I did not agree with was the fact that the opposition lied about the person’s age. He was 18. Also, Democrats (all politicians) knew about the complaints pages had about Foley since 2001. They waited until the midterm election of 2006 to make an issue of it.

They put their political ambitions above the welfare of the pages.

And there have been male Democrats who actually had sex with boys and were applauded by their peers.

Was not the Senator a client before he was in office? Not that it matters in the over all scheme but did he do it in office?

Also, we believe that all of them regardless of party should follow the rules or be removed.

The left has a different set of rules depending on what letter is next to the name of the offender.

Meth-fueled gay sex between a preacher whose sermons demonized homosexuality and a prostitute?

A repuke Congressman who preyed on teenaged boys, sending them sexually suggestive texts and emails?

A “family values” CONservative Senator who was a client of a DC prostitution ring?

These examples are more than just “slightly” wrong. If the perps happened to be Democrats, you people wouldn’t discount their actions as you do with these perverts. It’s sad, really. And we don’t want your ignorance on our “side”.

We have a Republic, not a Democracy.

And Obama will not save us. His spending will prolong the agony. This would be improving within the next few months if we had done nothing.

Considering the economy tanked when Obama was even or slightly behind in the polls and that the huge run on the bank was mysterious, maybe we should investigate who was behind it.

Although, Big Dog, I heard a good point the other day. Liberals want to shred conservatives when they do the slightest thing wrong because they know we live by our standards, so when one of us messes up, we might as well be damned to Hell. But when a liberal messes up, there was no standard there to begin with – ethics, morality, all of it was already out the window, so they don’t even recognize the assinine hypocrisy in their own lives and their own political party.

It’s sad, really. I wouldn’t switch sides to save my life.