Democrat Double Standard

I have in the past voted for Rep. Mark Foley. He was actually a rather good congressman and I don't think I was aware of his sexual orientation. I am shocked by the contents of his "IM's" to former pages and would be calling for his resignation if he had not resigned already. I apologize to all of the decent and moral homosexual men out there but must say that this is yet another example of the inability of many gay men to stay away from teenage boys. That said let's deal with the Democrats outrage.

Whenever a Republican is accused of misconduct the "holier than thou" Democrats go bonkers and call for the resignation of any and every Republican anywhere nearby. When a Democrat is involved the response is quite different. When a former Democrat Rep., Gerry Studds admitted that he had sex with a male teenage page in 1983 he did not resign and his party did not demand his resignation. Apparently his constituents had no problem with this behavior as he was re-elected six times afterwards and finally retired no doubt with his pension intact.

Okay, so that was some time ago as was a similar incident regarding Rep. Barney Frank. In 1989 Rep. Frank had a "roommate" named Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute who was running a prostitution ring out of Mr. Franks apartment. Rep. Frank claims he had no knowledge of the prostitution going on in his own home, a claim disputed by Stephen Gobie and by Franks own actions in "fixing" thirty parking tickets issued to "clients" of Gobie. Barney Frank still serves as a congressional representative for the state of Massachuttes. This was an actual crime and if you are saying that minors were not involved you know nothing about male prostitution. No Republican would have survived this series of events.

Finally, in the sex crime arena we have former Rep. Mel Reynolds who was indicted for having sex with a female campaign volunteer who was only sixteen. That was august of 1994 and Reynolds who claimed the charges were untrue and "racially motivated" was re-elected in November of 1994. A year after the indictment Reynolds was convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. Yikes! At this point even a Democrat had to resign. Being from Chicago it turned out that Reynolds was guilty of additional crimes. Mr Reynolds was sentenced to a six and a half year sentence for wire fraud, bank fraud, lying to the Federal Election commission and the afore mentioned sex with a minor. When a Democrat is finally forced to resign he knows that he will be taken care of. Bill Clinton included Mr. Reynolds in his "Pardon-poluzza" and commuted the sentence. Reynolds was then hired by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition in what is probably a high paying job as a "youth counselor".

Once, everyone knew that it was wrong for a man in a position of power to become sexually involved with a younger subordinate and that to do so was "taking advantage". Then came Bill Clinton, if you'll pardon the expression. Although President Clinton had sexual contact with a much younger, entirely subordinate intern, suddenly that was nobody's business. Although Clinton blatantly lied about the affair to the American people and even lied under oath, suddenly that was okay too as "everybody lies about sex".Well, so far all Rep. Foley did was send some truly repugnant messages to a young man and he has resigned in disgrace. That is as it should be but the Democrats demands for more resignations is just partisanship and hypocrisy at it's worst!