I think there is something really fucking wrong with the republicans that they are responding to the Foley crisis as a "sex-scandal" and comparing it to Clinton Lewinskey. I know why they're doing it. It is to make some kind of comparison of degree. Clinton had sexual relations with Lewinsky and we still like him, so why burn Foley at the stake.
The fact that the comparison can be made at all indicates a serious problem of ethics. Monica Lewinskey was younger than Clinton, sure, but she wasn't a child. Moreover, Clinton, despite his policies of acceptance towards homosexuals, had heterosexual sex.
Foley, on the other hand, belongs to a group that is against homosexuality (and black people--was the page black?), yet, he actively attempted to coerce homosexual sex...
WITH A CHILD!
The problem here isn't that this guy wanted to have sex and we found out about it. The problem here isn't that he wanted to have gay sex and we found out about it. This isn't a sex scandal at all. If he had committed rape, would it be a sex scandal? No. It would be a rape scandal. Well, this guy was trying to commit pedofelia. He wants to have sex with boys. Okay, maybe he was drunk. I highly doubt it; who writes nine page letters when they're drunk, but whatever...it doesn't matter. Who's been so drunk that they wanted to become a child molester.
Calling this guy's problem a sex scandal indicates that you don't know the difference between marital infidelity, for instance) and wanting to put your dick in a child's ass. No wonder these guys try so hard to take the moral high ground: they want to see what's up there.
Now, what's worse here is that everybody knew that this poor kid was being harrassed. Everyone knew about this attempt at child molestation. The FBI knew. Party leadership knew. Other senators knew. And yet, no one did anything about it. Hmmm... so evidentally this is business as usual with the GOP. I don't think that these monsters should be voted out of office, they should be locked up.
Now, I suppose if we lock them up, we should treat them according to the tenants of the Geneva convention. Which means, depending on who you ask, we can have them routinely sodomized. They can make their complaints to Condoleeza Rice....who won't remember hearing them.