Ah, the Greedy Old Perverts

The Mark Foley story, outside of the mainstream media, of course, has been quite amusing in a sick way. Let's see, Hastert is already throwing the "threaten the leaker" card around instead of going after the perpetrators and their enablers (including himself, if truth be known). Foley is still out there on the streets, presumably having learned that IMs aren't secure. The GOP is asking if they can use Foley's money, of all things, for other House races. Talk about giving the other side a line: "Candidate x uses money raised by registered sex offender and child predator Mark Foley..." And finally, there's a bit of an exoneration for Clinton: At least Lewinsky was of the opposite gender, of age of consent and as far as we know wasn't coerced.

The interesting thing is how it will play with some of my more conservative friends with kids. One has said on ocassion that he'd kill anyone who got close to one of his boys. Will he still vote GOP? Or will his values allow him to see through the plot, the the leadership of his party enabled and covered for Foley? They even kept his contact with the pages alive, providing him a steady stream of victims. Will he abandon the Greedy Old Perverts or will he rationalize it.

I'd bet the latter. He's a good guy but he has the same delusions as most of the fanatical GOPers I know, the ones who give our current gang of incompetents their 35% approval rating.

God bless Amerika.