tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post116035926443415631..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The new scandalDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-1160425282178359802006-10-09T16:21:00.000-04:002006-10-09T16:21:00.000-04:00The Republicans continue to engage in their decade...The Republicans continue to engage in their decades-long project of portraying the Democrats as effeminate, libidinous, commie, duplicitous, security-endangering hippy drug-using peaceniks while permitting themselves all sorts of questionable behavior. Why that game doesnt't get old with the US public I'll never know.<BR/><BR/>In the same vein, Silvio Berlusconi just labeled Centrist Romano Prodi as the living reincarnation of Stalin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-1160361156020570942006-10-08T22:32:00.000-04:002006-10-08T22:32:00.000-04:00But there is a certain rough justice in this affai...But there is a certain rough justice in this affair. Foley's transgression is not that he is gay but that he is taking advantage of his privileged position. Would his actions be less despicable if pages in question were girls? Clearly not. The Republicans are in danger of losing support from their evangelical base because of the essentially tangential fact of Foley's homosexuality. They are truly hoist with their own petard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com