Breaking: "Foleygate" turning right wingers off

Per a just released Time Magazine poll:

"Did the disclosure about Representative Foley's sexually explicit
instant messages to teenage congressional pages and the handling of
this situation by the House Republican leadership make you less likely
to vote for the Republican candidate in your district, more likely, or
did it really have no effect on how you will vote?" (Asked of those
who have heard or read about Foley)

Less Likely 25%
More Likely 4%
No Effect 68%
Unsure 3%

Look at the spread...more that ONE out of THREE probable Republican
voters are being turned AWAY from the Republican candidate.

Check this out: from an email...

The religious right loves to cast itself as the protector of family,
children, and morality. But in the face of the Rep. Foley scandal, the
religious right has chosen to attack gays, the "Left," and supporters
of "tolerance and diversity," instead of Congressional leaders who had
been warned about Foley's harassment of pages for years and chose to
put their political interests above the interests of children.

Blame Tolerance and Diversity!
"It's outrageous, it's shocking. But it shouldn't be totally surprising
when we hold up tolerance and diversity as the guidepost for public
life this is what you end up getting."
-- Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council

Blame the Homosexuals!
"But neither party seems likely to address the real issue, which is the
link between homosexuality and child sexual abuse."
-- Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council

Blame the Left!
The Foley revelations are "an attempt to discourage Christian
conservative voters and to get some percentage of them to stay home so
that the Left can retake the United States Senate and the United States
House."
-- Gary Bauer, Chairman, Campaign for Working Families

Blame....Planned Parenthood?
"There is never an acceptable excuse or rationale for the type of
deviant behavior former Congressman Mark Foley has admitted to.
Homosexuality is every bit a part of the culture of death as is
abortion and contraception. Not surprisingly, Foley was an ardent
supporter of both, representing the interests of Planned Parenthood 64
percent of the time thus far in 2006."
-- Human Life International

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On 7 Oct 2006 10:30:13 -0700, wrote:

Blame Tolerance and Diversity!
"It's outrageous, it's shocking. But it shouldn't be totally surprising
when we hold up tolerance and diversity as the guidepost for public
life this is what you end up getting."
-- Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council snip

WTF???? They're own heroes are the ones that were doing the
covering-up!!

Blame the Homosexuals!
"But neither party seems likely to address the real issue, which is the
link between homosexuality and child sexual abuse."
-- Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council snip

....of which there is no link.

Blame the Left!
The Foley revelations are "an attempt to discourage Christian
conservative voters and to get some percentage of them to stay home so
that the Left can retake the United States Senate and the United States
House."
-- Gary Bauer, Chairman, Campaign for Working Families

OH yeah....it's just "spin"...it never happened, right?

Blame....Planned Parenthood?
"There is never an acceptable excuse or rationale for the type of
deviant behavior former Congressman Mark Foley has admitted to.
Homosexuality is every bit a part of the culture of death as is
abortion and contraception. Not surprisingly, Foley was an ardent
supporter of both, representing the interests of Planned Parenthood 64
percent of the time thus far in 2006."
-- Human Life International snip

Which whackjob wrote THAT? THese people will just lose more support
disseminating crap like this. Their delusions and retardation are now
just too obvious!

On 7 Oct 2006 10:31:35 -0700, wrote:

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So much for contentions from the right wing wackos that the Left
should defend Foley!