Homocon

Not that there needs to be yet another voice raised about Republican Representative Mark Foley and his squalid emails and Instant Messaging with teenage boys who work on Capitol Hill, but I've been reading some very odd posts from Conservatives who ought to know better.

Sure, Democratic House Representatives Barney Frank and Gerry Studds behaved reprehensibly, with Frank using his congressional influence to expunge 33 parking tickets from his ex-convict/prostitute boyfriend's record and allowing him to use Frank's townhouse to run a prostitution ring, while Gerry Studds admitted to a sexual relationship with an underage (17 year old) Congressional Page, and no, the Democrats didn't turn them out of the House at the time for their wrong-doings -- but this isn't about Frank or Studds, this is about Mark Foley, and Foley's recent behavior exhibits a lack of good judgement, questionable intelligence and zero self-control.

Who wants that in a leader? I sure don't.

Defending Mark Foley is an exercise in futility, because there's nothing to defend. I'm sure he has a lot of people in his life who think he's a good man, but that doesn't make him a good leader, or a fit candidate to chair a commission on missing and exploited children. His emails and IM's to underage Congressional Pages are creepy to read, and even creepier when you consider that this is a fifty-something year old man entrusted with the grave duties of a national leadership.

"Keep on top of War on Terror -- check. Push for funding for border fence -- check. Ask young page for cock measurement -- check."

And it's abjectly humiliating to hear him described time and time again as an openly gay man -- because now, when people hear the term "openly gay man" they're going to think "Mark Foley" and "pedophile" . . . and that's nothing but a terrible disservice to all the openly gay men living their normal, well-adjusted lives the nation over.

Throw the bum out.

But note to Dems: if you really give a shit about gays, you'll stop flogging the Mark Foley Is Gay angle, because his being gay isn't the problem -- it's his creepy stalking of minors that's the problem.

UPDATE:
Oh, look -- tit for tat . . . you take down one of ours (no matter how justified) and we'll take out one of yours (justified, as well).

Perhaps this is the way we clean the slate on Capitol Hill -- get both parties to start releasing all the crap they have on each other in one great big orgasmic flurry. Then all the incumbents will have to resign in disgrace and we can vote in a whole new bunch of inept crooks esteemed representatives.

I can see this is going to be a very long election cycle.

UPDATE 2:
Victor Davis Hanson has some very pertinent thoughts (scroll down the page to Congressional Pederasty), of which I'll excerpt only one short paragraph: "Still Republicans need to wise up: this is a losing issue since the public doesn’t really care whether the Democrats are hypocritical, using scandal for partisan advantage, or hysterical in seeking headlines: the facts determine the case: a US Congressman wrote sexually suggestive messages designed to entice an underage subordinate employee. End of story. All that is left to doubt now, is how much the Republicans will hurt themselves if they persist in whining about partianship rather than condemning pederastic flirting."

ADDENDUM:
Favorite blog comment so far (from Ace of Spades HQ): "Too bad Foley wasn't a Boy Scout troop leader. That would have made him untouchable in Democrat eyes."