I like to occasionally wander into enemy territory, and see what they are thinking and saying. So I ventured this morning over to The Conservative Voice, and found Vince Fiore mourning a tad early:
But what will stop a complete slide into minority-status for the GOP now? Don't count too largely upon Bush, whose popularity and poll numbers resemble college football scores than anything worth shouting about. If the Democrats can manage to actually use these GOP missteps smartly, a change in majority may come to pass next month.
However, that's a very big "if" when one considers just who comprises the Democratic Party. It is the party that has consistently overplayed its hate against the Republican Party. From the theatrics at the Paul Wellstone memorial, the outspokenness of former Presidents Carter and Clinton, to the made-for-TV assassination of President Bush, the party of FDR can't seem to roll a rock downhill.
For the GOP though, the nightmare will continue, at least for a few more weeks, anyway. Expect Democrats and the media to sensationalize everything from Mark Foley's incredible lack of judgment, to Vice President Dick Cheney "menacing scowl" at a New York Times reporter.
But in the end, Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. As this campaign season now goes from bad to worse, the GOP might soon be running campaign ads that will basically say:
"Vote GOP, because the alternative is even worse than we are."
Jim Kouri had nothing but an over twenty year old democratic scandal:
While the Democrats are creating political hay out of the sex scandal involving Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), the Democrats were not as outraged when a member of their own party had a sexual liaison with a House of Representative's page. In fact, the Democrat involved in a homosexual affair with a page actually accused the House of Representatives of invading his privacy.
Adam Graham actually addressed it with some integrity:
Now, we're left with two conclusions regarding Dennis Hastert's knowledge of Mark Foley's behavior towards young congressional pages. Either, Mr. Hastert is so aloof he has less knowledge of what's going on in the US House than a staffer supervising teenagers, or he willfully chose to ignore the information and let a member of his leadership team engage in this conduct while also serving as co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
Neither the image of the aloof and clueless leader, or the enabler of bad conduct are good images for the House speaker. Dennis Hastert, as Speaker of the US House, is charged with upholding the dignity and honor of that institution. His failure to address this issue, either through unbelievable ignorance or utter disregard for the safety and welfare of the House's young charges, is a failure in leadership and a betrayal of conservative principles for which he must stand down as Speaker for the good of the House and the Republican Party.
Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter's sites have not been updated, and so far, a lone voice in the wilderness, Tony Perkins is desperately trying to blame diversity and tolerance of homosexuals:
Those who would like to see a mainstreaming of the homosexual agenda, and apparently pedophilia, were quick to lay blame where they believe it lies: Those nasty Conservatives who keep those homosexual pedophiliacs in the "closet."
The old bait and switch.... mention homosexuality and pedophilia in the same sentence....
So in the world of the Grand Old Party (for the life of me I don't understand that name... those people have never partied), there is nothing new under the sun.