Rallying the troops

"Alright, I'm tired of this shit.

Tired of the lot of ya who are willing to hand the keys to Congress over to San Francisco whack job Nancy "The War in Afghanistan is Over" Pelosi and Harry "Stop Sign" Reid and the odious John "I was for it before I was against it" Kerry, all because some jerk in Florida has an AOL account and a hard on.

You're falling right into the Democratic trap. They are going to play this to the hilt, because it is their goal to take the election by stripping the base away from the Republicans. It's the hidden ball trick."
CounterColumn

Foleygate is a matter for the people of the 16th District of Florida to deal with.

This is where your wrong. It's not at all about Foley, it stop being about him five minuets after the scandal broke.
It is about the leadership that did nothing to protect minors under their care. It's about trust.

In today's world where we are all aware of the many dangers that threatens our kids, where you worry about your kids at school, where their in danger from people on the net, when you have to watch them every moment of the day. When you can be charged for walking away from your car for five minuets, or are the fist suspect if your kid falls down, and your take them in to the hospital for a broken arm. In this the world the rest of us live in, the leadership did not think it necessary to carefully protect the pages in their charge.

You have to wonder about their judgment, are they in the possession of all their faculties?

If this had happened at your local high school, and you found out that a teacher had been sending inappropriate messages to a student, you would expect the principle of that school to investigate. You would expect that he would have looked into it to some degree. He should have interviewed other students, checked all the school records, and done everything he could to make sure it was just an innocent mistake, or bad choice of words.

If during that investigation the principle had found prior inappropriate behavior, or any signs that something might not be as innocent as presented, yet did nothing to protect the children in his care, you would mad as hell.
And that principle would be fired, or even charged with a crime.

The same thing applies here. Those pages are vulnerable, and everyone knows it. This guy had priors, yes maybe nothing criminal, but there were questions about his sexuality. I know just questions, but then you see an e-mail like that to a 16 year old page. Bells should have started ringing...He should have looked further into the matter, he should have contacted all the pages who had ever served during Foleys term, and asked. Has anyone ever sent you inappropriate messages. Has anyone ever made an inappropriate request. Maybe he might have learned that pages were warned, "watch out for Foley". At that point called the FBI or the capital police and had them look into any and all communications between Foley and house pages.

It's about trust. or the lack there of.