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Rush:  Dems set up Foley

Normally I agree with most of what Rush has to say, but this time he just needs to shut up and let the Republicans take their medicine. 

I’m just thinking out loud here. What if somebody got to the page and said, you know, we want you to set Foley up. We need to do a little titillating thing here. Keep it and save it and so forth. How would you get a kid to do that? Yeah, who knows? You threaten him or pay him. There’s any number of ways given the kind of people that we’re dealing with and talking about here.

Now, folks, I don’t want to be misunderstood here. I’m not trying to mount any kind of a defense. That’s a bad word. I’m not trying to get into a defense of what Mark Foley did. Please don’t misunderstand. I’m just telling you that the—the—the orgy and the orgasm that has been taking place in the media since Friday and with the Democrats is—it’s all coordinated, and it’s all—it’s all oriented toward the election. There’s no concern about the kid—no concern about the children.

Well, of course they’re going to exploit it, Rush.  It’s an election year, you’re not seriously trying to allege that Republicans didn’t exploit Clinton’s woman problems, are you?  You don’t honestly believe Republicans just wanted justice for Kathleen Willey, do you?  OF COURSE they’re going to exploit the issue, they’d be moronic not to. A member of the Republican leadership, the party of personal responsibility and chastity and the preservation of traditional marriage getting caught up in a morals and ethics scandal revolving around an underaged member of the same sex?  The fact that Republican leadership has known about it as long as it has and has chosen to ignore it is manna from Heaven as far as Howard Dean and the Dems are concerned.  I thought there was reason to believe the Republicans might actually pull it out in November until this years’ October Surprise. 

Of course it’s all coordinated, of course it’s all electioneering.  But don’t try to make believe Republicans are above that particular fray, that’s insulting and dishonest.