2006-10-08 13:20:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I'm optimistic that the Foley scene will be the issue that loses the GOP some 'base'. You know, it's hard to be a gaybashin' Republican and forgive the party leaders *knowing* that they had this guy on their rolls, recruiting for the pink team from among the tenderest youth, and placing a higher priority on keeping their majority than on keeping their 'morality'.
That will lose them those who would 'forgive' on all those other issues, and that might be the difference. It might leave it so that even if the Democrats *still* can't figure out how to create a compelling set of arguments to vote for them, the Republicans will be toast at the polls...
one can hope...
2006-10-08 14:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that Republicans always win in the end no matter what they do. If they get away with blaming the Foley scandal on 1960's liberal permissiveness, the Studds case of 20 or 30 years ago, gays who seek revenge for Republican gay bashing or anything like this, they'll be on the winning track again. After hearing a neo con argument that the US is losing in Iraq because of Democrats criticism of the war, I'm beginning to feel pretty pessimistic.
2006-10-08 20:22:18 · answer #2 · answered by TxSup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell all credibility was lost when Bush stole the first election. Then went into Iraq based on his lies. Foley, the debt and the deficit are just frosting on the cake.
2006-10-08 20:23:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What credibility? The "true believers" will swallow anything and the rest of us already know they have been less than honest.
2006-10-08 20:29:20 · answer #4 · answered by ash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋