It's not the offense, it's the cover-up

[mburbank]

Preech, I gotta agree with Kev here. Not because I think being a greasy old perv and masturbation in yur office while texting with a boy is at all out of the envelope for a Congressman, but because the GOP is holier than thou. A large part of the Republican base is all about their claim that they are Gods party. It hurts the party that the guy in charge of protecting kids is a perv, because that sort of irony is the R's achilles Heel.

Also, I think there is every chance that it will turn out Hastert is lying that he didn't know anything beyond the 'overly friendly' emails.

And I think that even totally gay active teens would have been laughing at foley more often than blowing him.

Is all of this fair? Do Foley's failings have anythig to do with his being an R? Of course not. Is D's righteous indignation an insulting charade? Mostly. But I think Kev is correct that R's worked very, very hard to create this particular vulnerability. Pride, even false pride, maybe particulalry false pride, goeth before a fall.