I think this has to be the funniest (and sickest) comment from Republicans that I’ve seen on this whole mess. He said this on Sunday, on Chris Wallace’s show on Fox. The site has a video of The Newt saying all this.
Wallace then asked: “How would it have been gay bashing?” Gingrich replied: “Because it was a male-male relationship,” adding that “there was no proof” that Foley was a “predatory person.”
Gimme an f’n break!
And here’s a video from 2002 of Foley speaking in the House to the pages.
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Oh, yeah! The GOP would NEVER THINK of doing anything to offend the gays!
Wow! Newt really is a slime ball. It makes me sad that I was a supporter of his in 1994. That was before I came to the conclusion that no politician can be trusted.
Would it be inappropriate if he emailed 16 year old girls in the same manner? Yes? Then it has nothing to do with gay bashing and all about protecting children from predators. Pretty poor explaination. Rather insulting too.
We all know Newt isn’t concerned with the appearance of gay-bashing. We also know the gay men are not attracted to young teen boys, but are rather attracted to … wait for it … other gay men.
By connecting pedophiles with homosexuals, the GOP can continue its campaign of hate, slander, and abuse toward the gay community even as they weather yet another in a seemingly endless string of horribly embarrassing ethics violations, scandles, and crimes.
I’ll sit back now and wait for a neocon to say, “Yea? Well, Clinton got a blow job.”
hey wasn’t he banging one of his aids back in 1999?
Republicans, the party of family values.
* Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after “sexually explicit” e-mails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year-old boy.
* Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year-old girl on the Internet.
* Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year-old girl.
* Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year-old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year-old girl and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation.
* Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year-old boy.
* Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
* Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl.
* Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13- and 14-year-old girls.
* Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.
* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year-old girls.
* Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the Internet.
* Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year-old girls.
* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
* Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
* Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year-old girl he murdered.
* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years’ probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year-old girl.
* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year-old black girl, which produced a child.
* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
* Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year-old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
* Republican activist Lawrence E. King Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
* Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and
sentenced to one month in jail.
* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
* Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his stepdaughter.
* Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.
* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police
on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year-old boy and possession of child pornography.
* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year-old babysitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
* Republican talk-show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11-year-old girl.
* Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year-old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the Internet from a 14-year-old girl.
* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year-old boy.
* Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e., exposing himself to children).
* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year-old girl.
* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a boy.
* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl.
* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6 months in prison.
* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer
and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the Internet.
* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
* Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
* Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year-old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
* Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
* Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner’s report here and his full report here.
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Interesting, but can you show us that there are actually less sex crimes committed by Democrat or Independent officials? It’s pretty meaningless otherwise.
#7
When Democrats entangle themselves in sexual scandals, it is with young twenty-something aspiring models (Gary Hart) and buxom twenty something aids (Clinton) or secretaries (Kennedy) or Marylin Monroe (The best Kennedy)…
There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s good old fashioned American fun.
OFTLO –
That’s hardly an exhaustive list of Democrat (or Independent) officials who have been involved in sex crimes or scandals, at all levels of government – federal, state and local.
6. I would have written “Wow – and not even one Liberal sex offender. Maybe you have something there.” Except I think you are actually trying to show that, while there are perverts everywhere and in every party, some conservatives are falsely claiming there are none in their midsts. You’ve proved that.
RBG
from jim(#5)
hey wasn’t he banging one of his aids back in 1999
Yep, and she became his THIRD wife.
I refer to these (Limbaugh, 3 marriages, 3 divorces) as Serial Polygamists.
J/P=?
Better check your dictionary, JP.
“Polygamist”, “serial” or not, means having 2, 3 or more wives at the same time.
#9 – Frank… Why would I care about an exhaustive list? I’m on the other team. You make a list. I’m busy with my fellow liberals dancing on the political grave of former U.S. Representative Mark Foley, a Republican of Florida, and newly outed pedophile, who resigned from Congress. House Speaker and Republican Denis Hastert was complicit in a conspiracy with other other key Republicans to cover up the pedophilia of former U.S. Representative Mark Foley, a Republican of Florida, and newly outed pedophile.
Man… I just love how that sounds.
I’m never gonna get tired of this 🙂
Hey Frank – I LOVE the “they did too” defense.
What number of democrats would it take so it justifies Foley being a pedophile and Hasert being a conspirator?
Neocowards – everyone.
Sheesh. I knew it was bad, if anywhere near this many Dems are involved, maybe God should take us out. I dont think the general population has this bad a record, perspectively.
Awake,
Thank You Very Much.
You have showed us how “the party of high moral standards,” is less than they preach. I think that the Christian Coalition should reconsider who they back in the elections.
What happened to these people who used moral issues to get into power? Did they not think that they would ever get exposed? Or is pediphelia a “family value?”
Sure there are probably as many Democratic, and Independant politicos who are not as moral as we would like them to be. They just know better than to run on issues of morality. Most Dems and Indys know the fact that it is a futile effort to legislate, or run on morals, because everyone’s morals are a little bit different from each other. I do not condone the the obsession with child molestation, or similar behavior. Children should be protected from people like Foley, and the like, due to their lack of sexual experience. If they are both adults, I really could not care if they had sex with each other. I hope that we can all at least agree on this.
In addition to the most obvious conclusion that can be drawn from the Foley scandal is that Secret Service protection needs to be extended to DC Pages. That and we can isolate four year old IM messages out of hundreds of millions sent over that time, but can’t/won’t produce a voting machine that leaves a paper trail from an election two weeks ago.
#7 – Frank.
I don’t have to make a list of the Democrats… that is not the point.
The point is that Republicans always run around claiming to be the party of family values, small government, economic responsibility, strong defense, respect for personal rights, personal integrity, etc, etc, etc… and over and over they are showing that they are a lot like “Dorian Gray’s Portrait”, good looking on the outside but a rotting corpse on the inside.
They should just chage the name of the organization from “Republican Party” to “Three Monkey Party”.
FrankIBC (#12)
Better check your dictionary, JP.
“Polygamist”, “serial” or not, means having 2, 3 or more wives at the same time.
Yep, I know that… using the analogy to ‘mass murder’- there are two types of mass murder, 1) several people killed at the same time (a la Columbine) 2) several people killed over a period of time (Ted Bundy)
Deliberate mis-use a la Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass.
J/P=?
16. Yes, like this is the party that has always been known for its support of gay attacks on kids. But then I suppose you would also have to believe this is reflective of all gays too, right? That the Republicans should have eliminated Foley right from the start to ensure the purity of the party’s moral ambitions.
RBG
Since when is reporting sex crimes against children considered gay bashing?? I guess gay bashing is only considered acceptable when you are trying to energize your conserative right wing base. I wonder how energized those hypocrites are now?
Newt is an idiot.
Lists of people involved in sex scandals in Washington are silly. There are so many of both parties you could wipe out a forest putting them on paper.
Unfortunatly you take a chance everytime you vote that you won’t elect an idiot, a sex offender, a crook, etc., etc., it’s the price of democracy.
#6 – wow thats quite a record – might want to publish that in a newspaper so the people that vote (old people) can see it –
if they do… well, theres only two choices, but they’re old people, they’re not infallable, – so its rebublicans for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!
/woot
/sarcasm
Someone told me that the Republicans are going to start pleading the 21st amendment.
21. Answer: When that straightforward task is somehow used to bash conservatives. And by the same silly logic, gays.
Nothing energizes conservatives like protecting children and weeding out the bad apples. Watch.
RBG
22.
“Unfortunatly you take a chance everytime you vote that you won’t elect an idiot, a sex offender, a crook, etc., etc., it’s the price of democracy.”
Damn, we’re battin’ 1000. I wonder if any of our politicians ARENT one of the above. This democracy thing is expensive.
#25 Nothing energizes conservatives like protecting children and weeding out the bad apples. Watch.
Comment by RBG — 10/3/2006 @ 1:19 pm
That’s not true. What is true is that the conservative base is energized by empty gestures and fearmongering about percieved dangers to kids… Usually, when they are “thinking of the children” they are really trying to curtail an adult activity that their preacher told them to be offended by.
But who cares… Because former U.S. Representative Mark Foley, a Republican of Florida, and newly outed pedophile, resigned from Congress AND (drumroll please) House Speaker and Republican Dennis Hastert was complicit in a conspiracy with other other key Republicans to cover up the pedophilia of former U.S. Representative Mark Foley, a Republican of Florida, and newly outed pedophile.
I wish there were someone who could write music while I convert that into lyrics.
27, I think your lyrics would almost work over the music to Yankee Doodle Dandy. You could call yours Yank Your Doodle, Dummy (and leave the Pages alone).
Good riddance to bad rubbish. He’s free to join the liberals now.
RBG
#7, Frank, Hey Frank…yoohoo Fraaaank
Hhhmmm, no reply. Maybe Frank doesn’t have anything important to add.