Protesting a bit too much

  • 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.