Gay Old Pedophiles
The cringe factor is back in American politics. It suddenly doesn't seem all that long ago we were wincing over the significance of a stained blue dress; now, one finds oneself looking back on Mr. Clinton's proclivity for porcine young women with a certain nostalgia. Hummers, interns, cigars and ''I did not have sex with that woman'' suddenly seem almost respectable, even statesmanlike, compared with underage pages, Internet chats and ''do I make you a little horny?''
Republicans may find the concept of the big tent as well as its implications for electoral success to be appealing, but few conservatives previously understood that the party elders envisioned a tent so big it encompassed fifty-year-old ephebophiles. Mark Foley isn't a fringe figure on the perimeter of the party; at the time of his resignation last week, he was a six-term congressman from Florida expected to easily win election to a seventh term in office.
But despite the lingering aftershocks from a media quake that will continue to reverberate for some time from a scandal that is at least a 4.0 on the Rupert scale, Mark Foley is not the central issue here. Foley is merely the latest symptom in a disease that has been evident for quite some time now in a Republican Party that values power over principle and the perquisites of politicians over the God-given rights of the American people.
Vox Day
Nice one, Vox. That ought to ruffle a few feathers. Then again, those of us who have been saying these very things for years have been relegated to the kook-corner for quite some time. It never hurts to see it in print, though.
The True Believers will now find an equivalence between what Vox has written and the Democrats' failed attempt to position the GOP as a hotbed of "The Culture of Corruption." But that move didn't fail because of any overt inaccuracy. It failed because it rang vary hollow, coming as it did from corruption central, a.k.a. the DNC.
Republicans may find the concept of the big tent as well as its implications for electoral success to be appealing, but few conservatives previously understood that the party elders envisioned a tent so big it encompassed fifty-year-old ephebophiles. Mark Foley isn't a fringe figure on the perimeter of the party; at the time of his resignation last week, he was a six-term congressman from Florida expected to easily win election to a seventh term in office.
But despite the lingering aftershocks from a media quake that will continue to reverberate for some time from a scandal that is at least a 4.0 on the Rupert scale, Mark Foley is not the central issue here. Foley is merely the latest symptom in a disease that has been evident for quite some time now in a Republican Party that values power over principle and the perquisites of politicians over the God-given rights of the American people.
Vox Day
Nice one, Vox. That ought to ruffle a few feathers. Then again, those of us who have been saying these very things for years have been relegated to the kook-corner for quite some time. It never hurts to see it in print, though.
The True Believers will now find an equivalence between what Vox has written and the Democrats' failed attempt to position the GOP as a hotbed of "The Culture of Corruption." But that move didn't fail because of any overt inaccuracy. It failed because it rang vary hollow, coming as it did from corruption central, a.k.a. the DNC.
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