La Cage Aux Foley

The Representative Foley "scandal" is really worthy of a whole book on hypocrisy. On the one hand, we have a poor misguided Republican man
who had a romantic thing for young boys. He sent them suggestive e-mail. I agree, that's not great. On the other hand, we have a Democratic
party that worships (not likes, WORSHIPS) a man named Bill Clinton who did not send suggestive e-mails as far as we know, but who had a
barely legal intern give him oral sex kneeling under his desk in the Oval Office while he talked on the phone to a Congressional Committee
Chairman, took great pleasure in putting a cigar in her orifice and then smelling it and tasting it, and having her fellate him when in the
sacred seat of power of the world's leading Republic. And the Democrats cheer themselves hoarse for him. His wife has a great shot at being
our next President.
We have a Republican man in Congress who sent e-mails to teenage boys asking them what they were wearing, and an entire party, the Democrats,
whose primary constituency, besides the teachers' unions, is homosexual men and lesbian women. I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone
that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys. (Take a look at anyone renting Endless Summer next time you are at the
video store.)
Don't get me wrong. My very best friend is gay. I have many gay friends and they are great people. But how the Democrats, the party of gays,
can be coming down this hard on a MC who's gay is simply beyond belief. One of my top, favorite congressmen, Barney Frank, is openly gay.
Might he say a word in defense of his fellow gay MC right about now? Hmm, I thought not.
Second, let's look at George Allen. Now, he's a bad guy because he has a Confederate flag. Let's get it straight. To millions of our fellow
citizens, this flag has zero to do with racism. It is entirely about respect for a time of unbelievable horror in our society, The Civil War,
and respect for men who fought so brilliantly for a cause that was unquestionably -- by decent standards -- a bad cause. Moreover, the stars
and bars are a beautiful design and show nothing whatsoever about a person's views about non-whites. No one has suggested that George Allen
did anything racist or anti-black in his work in the Senate or as Governor. For him to be judged by what historical relics he owns is pure
thought crime.
But the hypocrisy comes in because the Democrats have as their dean in the Senate an actual former Klansman, Robert Byrd of West Virginia. In
my very clear memory, the whole bulk of the senior Democrats routinely called blacks "nigras" and voted against any kind of civil rights
laws, right down to anti-lynching laws. And this is the party that presumes to judge a man because he owns a Civil War artifact memorializing
incredible American courage? Didn't we just recently have as President a Democrat from Georgia who was inches away from being a
segregationist in his early career? And what did his state flag look like when he was governor? And George Allen is being judged by these
people?
Again, for sheer hypocrisy, the winner is: the Democratic Party. Again.
If Foley were a Democrat, he would not have resigned.