What do these people have in common and WHY does half the nation follow these people?

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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.

Also, in light of Fox news trying to defend Foley last night, I must say I'm am LMAO that he got busted and the GOP tried to cover-up as usual. I would like to add:

1) None are made up, look them up while youre online if you have questions.

2) Clinton had sex with a consenting ADULT, not a child

3) It is not that Dems do no wrong, its the sheer NUMBERS of republicans who do these things and claim to be morally superior.

4) Republicans are anti-gay and half of the offenders in the last 10 years were caught with young BOYS!

5) Foley was in charge (even after he was discovered to be a pedophile) of protecting our children from sexual predators.

With all of those things in mind...anyone getting a little sick of these guys?

Oops, sorry 7 out of 60

I was just informed that on FOX News last night they listed Foley 3 times as a Democrat!
Personally, I'm starting to think down with FOX, not republicans!

Answer 1

I don't think there is a good answer. Republican or Democratic it is pretty f***ed up. I think it just adds a horrible bitter twist when these freaks are "family values" proponents.

Answer 2

I bet the list of sicko dems is just as long. No group has a monopoly of this kind of perversion!

As far as FOX News is concerned:
I've watched quite a bit of both CNN & FOX. If that image isn't doctored, it is a brief typo. I'm sure the newscaster was verbally refering to him as a republican at the same time & it was immediately corrected, because all I've seen on Fox was references to REPUBLICAN Foley.

And I have heard MANY, if not ALL of the commentors on Fox, not only condemning Foley, but also wanting an investigation in to who knew what & when. One conservative commentator last night said "If Hastert didn't know - he should have!"

Part of the confusion (again, IF the image is accurate) is that there is a democrat Tom Foley. IF someone made that kind of mistake, I sort of hope they'd get fired for it.

Answer 3

Oh, boy! You can cut and paste someone else's work! How special!

If anybody cared to waste their time on seeking out minor Democrats arrested for their sexual peccadillos, I'm sure the list would be equally as long, if not longer.

But at least in the GOP, they resign or they get booted. Apparently in the Dem party, they become the leaders.

Let us now praise the Democrat all-stars of immorality, unethical behavior, criminality and corruption:

Drunk murderer Kennedy
KKK racist Byrd
Perjurer molester rapist Clinton
Traitor Kerry

Let us acknowledge the vast difference between acceptance and celebration of criminality on the Dems side, and the demand for honor and integrity on the GOP side.

Answer 4

My goodness, you have done your homework and I give you an A++

To the first answerer, how is it showing prejudice when the shoe fits?

Republicans do it all the time... constantly calling democrats gay lovers, etc... just because a portion of the democratic party is liberal and believes in gay rights.

Once again, Republicans have a double standard.

Moreover, even when their hand is caught right smack in the middle of the cookie jar, they are angry that we bring it up... I truly believe the world would be a better place without Republicans. Look at them now... they are making excuse after excuse and once again, a Republican pedophile believes rules do not apply to him.

Answer 5

One of my favorite novels is THE DIAMOND AGE by Neal Stephenson. One passage responds nicely to this sort of question. The novel is set a couple of generations in the future, and in one scene, two characters have a conversation about how and why hypocrisy became such a big deal in the 20th century.

I do not quote from the novel as a way to defend Foley's illegal and immoral behavior -- or anyone's. I think the behavior itself is abhorrent.

I do not see hypocrisy as quite the problem that others do, however. The quote below sums up, better than I can, why I think it is misguided to accuse the Republican Party (or the Catholic Church, or any other group of people) of hypocrisy just because some members misbehave. Note in particular Major Napier's comment.

Here's the excerpt:

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“You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It was all because of moral relativism. You see, in that sort of a climate, you are not allowed to criticise others—after all, if there is no absolute right and wrong, then what grounds is there for criticism?”
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“Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others’ shortcomings. And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices. For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticise another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behaviour—you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another. Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy.
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“We take a somewhat different view of hypocrisy,” Finkle-McGraw continued. “In the late-twentieth-century Weltanschauung, a hypocrite was someone who espoused high moral views as part of a planned campaign of deception—he never held these beliefs sincerely and routinely violated them in privacy. Of course, most hypocrites are not like that. Most of the time it’s a spirit-is-willing, flesh-is-weak sort of thing.”

“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code,” Major Napier said, working it through, “does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.”

“Of course not,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It’s perfectly obvious, really. No one ever said that it was easy to hew to a strict code of conduct. Really, the difficulties involved—the missteps we make along the way—are what make it interesting. The internal, and eternal , struggle, between our base impulses and the rigorous demands of our own moral system is quintessentially human. It is how we conduct ourselves in that struggle that determines how we may in time be judged by a higher power.”

All three men were quiet for a few moments, chewing mouthfuls of beer or smoke, pondering the matter.
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So there's my two cents, picked from the pocket of Mr. Stephenson.

Answer 6

Partisan, are we? Do you really believe that no Dems have done this crap either? Nice blinders you're wearing. Here's a more balanced look at this throughout the years, courtesy of wikipedia:

Sex scandals
Sally Hemings-Thomas Jefferson affair (alleged)
Alexander Hamilton-Maria Reynolds affair (1797)
Petticoat Affair or Eaton Affair
President James Buchanan and Senator William Rufus King were the subject of scandalous gossip (alleging a homosexual affair) in Washington, DC for many years
Warren Harding-Carrie Phillips-Nan Britton mistresses and pay-offs
Walter Jenkins (1964)
Wilbur Mills-Fanne Foxe (1974)
Wayne Hays-Elizabeth Ray scandal (1976)
John Young of Texas (1976)
Allan Howe of Utah (1976)
Fred Richmond of New York (1978)
Robert Bauman of Maryland (1980)
Jon Hinson of Mississippi (1981)
Thomas Evans-Paula Parkinson (1981)
Dan Craneof Illinois and Gerry Studds of Massachusetts censured July 20, 1983 in Congressional Page sex scandal (1983)
Gary Hart-Donna Rice scandal (1987)
Ernie Konnyu of California (1987)
Washington Senator Brock Adams (1988)
Jim Bates of California (1988)
Gus Savage of Illinois (1989)
Barney Frank of Massachusetts (1989)
Donald "Buz" Lukens of Ohio, multiple scandals (1989, 1990)
Arlan Stangeland of Minnesota (1990)
Virginia Senator Chuck Robb-Tai Collins affair (1991)
Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill sexual harassment scandal at time of Supreme Court nomination hearings (1991)
Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye (1992)
Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexual harassment scandal (1995)
Mel Reynolds of Illinois (1995)
Bob Livingston of Louisiana (1998)
Henry Hyde "youthful indiscretion" (1998)
Bob Barr sexual hypocrisy alleged by Larry Flynt (1998)
Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky scandal (1998)
Chandra Levy-Gary Condit (2001)
Kentucky Governor Paul Patton affair; became public after former mistress alleged retaliation against her business (2002)
Steven C. LaTourette of Ohio, affair with staffer (2003)
West Virginia Governor Bob Wise affair with state employee (2003)
The Washingtonienne scandal (2004)
Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan Sex Clubs (2004)
New Jersey Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey – closeted homosexual extramarital affair (2004)
Mark Foley; accusations of sexual harassment of underage congressional page (2006)

Answer 7

You are just showing another form of prejudice. You are assuming that because those people did horrible things that all Republicans are that way.

Our president has broken the law to make it to where it is legal to eavesdrop on telephone and email.

The majority of the country's representatives voted FOR a law to make it legal to torture.

Just my opinion...

I usually vote Independent.

Answer 8

All said and done, these are innocent children. We should value our innocents at all times.. Instead what do we get, The Moral Majority, the Fundamentalist Christian party, attack our children, send them to Jesus camps and tell them to get ready to fight for God and to take back America.

The hypocrisy is stifling... We just want a normal, happy, peaceful, prosperos and great America.

What's wrong with that please,......?

Answer 9

They're all perverts.
How about these ten?
10. Sen. Daniel Inouye. The 82-year-old Hawaii Democrat was accused in the 1990s by numerous women of sexual harassment. Democrats cast doubt on the allegations and the Senate Ethics Committee dropped its investigation.

9. Former Rep. Gus Savage. The Illinois Democrat was accused of fondling a Peace Corps volunteer in 1989 while on a trip to Africa. The House Ethics Committee decided against disciplinary action in 1990.

8. Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank’s residence in the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.

7. Former Sen. Brock Adams. The late Washington Democrat was forced to stop campaigning after numerous accusations of drugging, assault and rape, the first surfacing in 1988.

6. Former Rep. Fred Richmond. This New York Democrat was arrested in 1978 for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old. He remained in Congress and won re-election—before eventually resigning in 1982 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and drug possession.

5. Former Rep. John Young. The late Texas Democrat increased the salary of a staffer after she gave in to his sexual advances. The congressman won re-election in 1976 but lost two years later.

4. Former Rep. Wayne Hays. The late Ohio Democrat hired an unqualified secretary reportedly for sexual acts. Although he resigned from Congress, the Democratic House leadership stalled in removing him from the Administration Committee in 1976.

3. Former Rep. Gerry Studds. He was censured for sexual relationship with underage male page in 1983. Massachusetts voters returned him to office for six more terms.

2. Former Rep. Mel Reynolds. The Illinois Democrat was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault with a 16-year-old. President Bill Clinton pardoned him before leaving office.

1. Sen. Teddy Kennedy. The liberal Massachusetts senator testified in defense of nephew accused of rape, invoking his family history to win over the jury in 1991.

http://www.humanevents.com/lists.php?id=17357

Oh, and half of the nation DOESN'T follow those people. They just happen to vote Republican.

Answer 10

They all live in the United States where common folk get arrested, tried and convicted for these heinous crimes but rich republicans get a slap on the wrist.