2006-10-10 04:16:00 · 13 answers · asked by robertbdiver 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
i thought the pages were above the age-of-consent for D.C., does anyone say they were not?
2006-10-10 04:18:24 · update #1
Democrats have private matters
Republicans have scandals
have to know why? ask the liberal media
2006-10-10 04:18:56 · answer #1 · answered by roamin70 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
ABC. NBC, CNN & FOX said the emails were after page left, was 18 & obviously consenual since he emailed back & there was never sex just emails. Foley is a pervert but Democrats always yell about gay rights, so what is their problem. Age of consent in DC & FL -emails sent from & received states - is
16 yrs old. I think it will be hard to prosceute with no broken law.
It does not mean it will not hurt Republicans at polls, most do not look up laws, but it was & is a smoke screen saved by someone to change outcome of election. Who knew & was willing to let it go on to help their party?
Original question is pages involved a Republican.
2006-10-10 04:32:17 · answer #2 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scandal is not the sex it's the cover up of the sex. If Clinton had simply been honest he would have been reelected any way and could have made a big show of making things right with his wife. In Foley's case if he had come forward the conservative hate machine that is the grass roots of the republican party would have destroyed his career. The only thing you could bust Foley for would be sexual harassment if he could have come forward as an openly gay guy. In the republican party closet gays are barely tolerated and openly gay guys soon disappear.
2006-10-10 04:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by brian L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he sent kinky e-mails first. That's the only answer. Actually, they were all of legal age of consent which is 16 in DC. There's no evidence that Foley even had sexual relations with anyone until they were 21. It's either 1. Homophobic or 2. They'd say anything to win an election.
2006-10-10 04:17:39 · answer #4 · answered by MEL T 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Don't forget---Clinton had consensual (but adulterous) oral sex with an adult. And he was impeached. That wasn't a scandal? I seem to remember some coverage in the media, as well as some outrage from the GOP.
Foley didn't screw anyone, as far as we know. It was the content of the emails he sent to minors. Scandal? Yeah, I think so.
2006-10-10 04:22:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is rather easy. Foley tried to get cozy with underage boys. Not only that, but he also championed bills that battled the same type of child molester he is.
It is the hypocrisy between moral highroad and child molestation that makes this case so bad. It is that the neocons not getting tired claiming moral high grounds, beating down on drug abusers and are then being caught hitting on little boys and taking drugs themselves.
2006-10-10 04:33:58 · answer #6 · answered by The answer man 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did someone say "underaged"? The politicians got a law passed in DC making it legal to have sex with a 16 year old. There's more 16 year old hookers running around that place than anywhere this side of Phuket Thailand. Your Congress at work!
2006-10-10 04:20:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The intern was of legal age to consent. The pages were not. End of story.
2006-10-10 04:17:31 · answer #8 · answered by Gene Rocks! 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because the President was a Democrat and the Congressman is a Republican, and the Dems play to the politics of personal destruction and have a very selective memory.
2006-10-10 04:17:23 · answer #9 · answered by Leah 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Because the pages are underaged, and of the same sex. The same sex thing doesn't bother me, but the underage thing does.
2006-10-10 04:17:14 · answer #10 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋