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Friday, October 20, 2006
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Protesting a bit too much
by Rich Galen
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  • The Mark Foley story appears to be losing some steam. I suspect the National Democrats are beginning to get some heat from Gay Democrats that this is getting pretty close to the kind of Gay bashing they have accused Republicans of waging for decades.

  • Remember the outrage when the Boy Scouts of America decided that openly Gay men would not be permitted to be Scoutmasters? "BEING GAY DOES NOT MEAN BEING A PEDOPHILE" we were told day after day.

  • That, as it happens, is a statement with which I agree. Pedophiles come in all shapes and sizes; Straight and Gay being two of them.

  • The anti-Boy Scout sentiment ran so high among Liberals eager to protect the image of Gays that the BSA has been refused the right to use Federal land for their Jamborees.

  • Ok. Gay does not equal pedophile. Got it. No prob.

  • In the frenzy which followed the Foley resignation, the news media went after Rep. Jim Kolbe - an openly Gay Republican from Arizona - for having gone on a camping trip with FORMER Pages; the implication being he might have been preying on them.

  • Let's get this straight: Gay does not equal pedophile. Perfectly OK to have a Gay Scoutmaster. But Jim Kolbe - one of the true gentlemen in the US House, by the way - must have had wicked intentions when he took that camping trip.

  • The Foley story is spinning out of the control of the Democrats and their allies in among the Gay Left were getting concerned.

  • So now …

  • We are back on National Security. And National Security is absolutely the last issue on which the Democrats want this election to turn.

  • The other day on CNN, occasional debate opponent Paul Begala was in a projectile sweat about the warning that someone had posted a threat against seven NFL stadia this week.

  • Begala was adamant that this was a story planted by the Bush Administration solely for the purpose of reminding America that we are at war.

  • Put aside the fact that every single person who has drawn a Federal paycheck over the past six years is on record saying that they put no credence in the warning, but that they felt it was prudent to make it public.

  • The media, not the Bush Administration picked up the story and have been lateralling it, like a football with no time left on the clock, back-and-forth down the field trying keep the story alive.

  • Paul, methinks, was protesting a bit too much. The Democrats want to keep this election from sliding back into a referendum on who can best protect America from where they have it now: Who can best run the House Page program.

  • Yesterday, I got a call from a senior political reporter asking if I thought the Democrats were taking a harder line on Iraq and whether that would help them.
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    Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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    Reply # 1
    Date: Oct 22, 2006 - 9:38 AM EST
    Concord

    Lydia is right...

    And it wasn't about the woman he raped (the one we know about), or the told and untold others he abused.

    Run along now...
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    Reply # 2
    Date: Oct 22, 2006 - 3:11 AM EST
    hahahahaha
    You impeach a president for having a consensual relationship with an adult woman, and then when one of yours tries to bugger a teenager, you make excuses. Pathetic. The right has lost its way, plain and simple, and all of you trying to make excuses are sad, just sad. Enjoy being the minority party again.
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