As God is my witness, this will be my last substantive post on the Foley matter. I’m Foleyed out. Really, how much evidence needs to mount before everyone concludes that Foley was a twisted guy and that further evidence of Foley’s twistedness becomes therefore irrelevant? The fact that Foley had sex with a 21 year-old male former page may be front page news according to the reliably dubious editorial judgment of the L.A. Times, but the rest of the sentient public has by now surely gotten the point.

From this point forward, any occasion that I have to discuss this sordid affair will be solely dedicated to observing how truly pathetic one of our national parties and its media surrogates have become, choosing to reduce their entire agenda to exposing, re-exposing, and then re-re-re-re-exposing one Congressman’s perversions. But before leaving the substantive matters of Masturgate to other more insightful and creative denizens of the blogosphere, let me offer one final word on the provenance of the scandal.

Rahm Emmanuel was on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” with Republican rising star Adam Putnam. Naturally, the former Clinton hatchet-man Emmanuel was expressing his deepest outrage over Foley’s electronic depredations.

Whenever you have two former Clinton apparatchiks gathered around a tiny little round table, you have to make sure your antennae is alert for the linguistic evasions that Clinton and his minions elevated into a modern art form. At one point during the debate, Putnam asked Emmanuel, who happens to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, whether he was aware of the nature of the Foley scandal before it broke wide open 12 days ago. Emmanuel responded, and I’m paraphrasing here because the transcript is not yet available, “I did not see the Instant Messages.”

To veteran Clinton-parsers, this choice of phrase registered as passing odd. That wasn’t either the “yes” or “no” that the question called for, even though a “no” would have driven forward Emmanuel’s narrative of Republicans’ exclusive hold on the affair’s culpability and neglect. In case you’re thinking that this might have been just an inadvertent and sloppy answer by Emmanuel, it’s worth noting that about 30 seconds later Putnam asked the exact same question and Emmanuel offered the exact same response - that he hadn’t seen the Instant Messages.

My work here is now done. For the Republican Party and those of us who are partial to Republicans, the time to get back on message has come. The man my mother invariably refers to as “Billy Krystol” has an outstanding editorial in this week’s Weekly Standard highlighting how one party cares about terrorism and little matters of that sort, while the other party’s only talking point regards the perversions of one certifiably weird congressman.

As far as I’m concerned, continued elaboration and exposition of Bill’s observations are the only justifications for continuing to discuss the Foley affair. The intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Democratic Party has never been so obvious.

Nor has the need for Republican victory in November.

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