Foley: Has he alienated more "Values Voters" from the GOP?

[Jade Fox]

One can hope. I don't watch the MSM, so I don't know how much play this thing is getting. But the fact that Foley was the head of "Missing and Exploited Children" and they knew he had a problem has got to be having an effect. And you know everyone is reading those emails. This is not like Jeff Gannon. This guy was elected.

Hopefully, this will cause more of the Christian Right to stay home in Nov.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Depends what their values are...

if value voters are anything like value shoppers
they may not be getting their money's worth

then again, if they are like other republicans...
then pedophilia and torture are a-okay.
It's psychology 101 that these loudmouthed
sanctimonious boobs would have S&M outfits
in their closets and Jeff Gannon beneath their sheets

[Jade Fox]

2. Values Voters means Conservative Christians....

That's what they say so they don't have to say "Conservative Christians". God forbid the Media should call a spade a spade.

[C_U_L8R]

5. ohhhh.. definitely pedophiles and torturers then

[Erika]

3. I think we should demand the "Christian Right" answer

as to why they think the GOP is a party of family values. I'll look up some email addresses.


It's just not Foley, it's Gannon, Abramoff, Enron biggies, Livingston, Hyde, Gingrich, Barr, etc. Even J.C. Watts and Dan Burton had children out of wedlock.

At this point, I'm ready to shove this info down their throats (rhetoric wise).

[distantearlywarning]

4. I doubt it.

Those people are totally brainwashed. Just wait - they'll find some way to justify it by the beginning of next week. Anything their beloved (R) leaders do and say is fine. It's only bad if the person has a (D) next to their name. Just wait and see. Bush and all of the Senate Republicans could throw fetuses in a bonfire on the White House lawn and dance around in a Satanic rite, and 2 days later Limpballs would be going on about how burning fetuses is fine and anyone who says otherwise is a commie pinko traitor, and 2 days after that, all of Limpballs followers will be at the office snarling and foaming at the mouth at anyone criticizing fetus burning.

Just wait and see if I'm right. It's a cult of (R) personality these days. It has nothing whatsoever to do with any kind of "values" any more other than worshipping the (R).

[Jade Fox]

6. Yes, but they are extra psycho....

when it comes to anything about sex. That's what's behind the Christian Right's anti-gay, and anti-women-who-have-sex agendas.

Rationalizing Foley's and the GOP's actions already going on by Freeper types. You know the drill, whatever Foley did, it's not as bad as the Clenis.

I have hope. The Christian Right is getting fed up with the GOP for promising what they can't deliver (end to Roe v Wade, the anti-gay marriage amendment), so I hope this will have an effect.

[Erika]

7. Surely the Xtian right can't justify sexual abuse of a 16 year old?

The boy was a minor.

[Jade Fox]

8. Read some of the comments here....

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/foley_resigns_o.html

[Erika]

11. Interesting but not enlightening.

This boy was a 16 year old minor. The GOP are clearly on the defensive trying to equate an adult consensual affair with the exploitation of a 16 year old boy.

Talk about "projecting", Foley wanted to make laws toughers to prevent kids from the likes of him.

[Blue-Jay]

9. "At least I'm not voting for a goddamn Democrat"

35% (or more) would rather vote for a pervert than a Democrat. It's like cheering for your college's football team even though you know that they suck.

(typo edit)

[Kali]

10. nah they are blind idiots

"he is an exception" "at least he stepped down immediatly - unlike clinton" oh and this somehow IS clintons fault - penises in public and all, doncha know?

[Erika]

12. This was a 16 year old minor

whether the bushbots like it or not. Different rules/laws apply to minors than adults..

[leesa]

13. No. What does that have to do with abortion and gay marriage?

These people never connect the dots.

[Reaction]

14. These people have an uncanny way

of hating the sin and not the sinner when it comes to those who further their interests so don't get you hopes up too much.

[Jade Fox]

15. That's true.....

The Christian Right give their own a lot of credit for "meaning well", and being a reformed sinner. So if Foley makes the right reforming noises to the media, emphasizing his Christianity or conversion to same, the Fundies might end up loving him.

[Vickers]

16. Jesus will carry him through this dark valley.

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