A Word Of Republican Encouragement
Frustrating it is to be swamped at work AND at home and have no time for blogging at all. You can see the result in our rodential TTLB Ecosystem rating. I'm about ready to climb the walls. Thank goodness I'm taking Monday off - I've got an awfully big Foley boil to lance.
In the meantime, here is on off-the-top-of-my-head consciousness stream I fired off to buck up one of our contributors here, whose post on the latest and lowest Donk dirty trick I will post shortly. I didn't come close to touching all the bases of this outrage, but it was cathartic to get it out in pixels nonetheless.
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We're still doing well. I haven't seen any dramatic negative movement in the polls. Indeed, Zogby's latest batch has quite a bit of good news for Republicans.
What you have to remember is that this is an entirely Beltway furor. That explains why Republicans are (for the moment) flummoxed, defensive, and panicky. Out in the rest of the country this is just going to piss off the base even more and generate a HUGE GOP turnout.
Why? Because the Democrats are overplaying their hand again. Think about it - the alleged perp, Mark Foley, resigned immediately when the email/IM story broke last weekend. If the press and the Dems were at all concerned with what Foley did, that should have been the end of it. But they're going after Denny Hastert's head like he was Foley's pimp. One Cindy Sheehan-esque Dem congressional candidate in Minnesota-6 has put out a despicably mendacious ad accusing the entire Republican leadership of "covering up" for a "child molester." And now the scuttlebutt is that the Donk "warroom" is going to start outting every gay GOP officeholder and staffer on Capitol Hill, probably including false accusations as well, all in the belief that religious conservatives, whom libs will never be convinced aren't homophobic, will abandon the Republicans in droves on Election Day - thus putting into power the party that hates them and everything they believe in and stand for. Apparently they'll never be convinced that we aren't dumber than a box of hair as well.
This is the Wellstone Funeral writ large. Indeed, it's worse than that because nobody can convince me that if Mark Foley was playing electronic "where the girls aren't," there aren't at least a handful of Dem congresscritters who haven't been doing that and worse. Just as with the whole Abramoff falderol, this crap will boomerang, and hard.
In this post-Clinton, post-media-monopoly, instant-information age, dirty tricks just aren't what they used to be. It's too easy to poke holes in them, get out the other side of the story, and frankly, too difficult to shock people anymore. The fact of the matter is that the Democrats are engaged in gay-bashing; they're condemning the GOP leadership for NOT engaging in domestic surveillance of private communications of a gay man on the assumption that because he's gay, he's a child molester. This from the same crowd that tried to force the Boy Scouts to accept gay scoutmasters. I guess it's too bad Foley wasn't an Islamist terrorist; that would have been the perfect defense.
It really is that obvious. Everybody sees this for what it is. The Democrats have turned to a cybersex scandal - which they told us for years was a pol's "private" life irrelevant to his public job performance when it was one of theirs - because they have no agenda they can successfully run on and no ideas they can admit to. All they have is the politics of personal destruction. And that can only succeed if Beltway Republicans let themselves get stampeded into disarray.
And if Drudge's story that broke today has it right, there might not even be a scandal at all.
Take heart, Kay. Denny Hastert reiterated today that he's not going anywhere. Boehner and Blount (sort of) and the rank & file are closing ranks behind him. The counterpush has begun. And the backlash will follow.
Count on it.
UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt bullet-points the above as only a trained attorney can.
In the meantime, here is on off-the-top-of-my-head consciousness stream I fired off to buck up one of our contributors here, whose post on the latest and lowest Donk dirty trick I will post shortly. I didn't come close to touching all the bases of this outrage, but it was cathartic to get it out in pixels nonetheless.
~ ~ ~
We're still doing well. I haven't seen any dramatic negative movement in the polls. Indeed, Zogby's latest batch has quite a bit of good news for Republicans.
What you have to remember is that this is an entirely Beltway furor. That explains why Republicans are (for the moment) flummoxed, defensive, and panicky. Out in the rest of the country this is just going to piss off the base even more and generate a HUGE GOP turnout.
Why? Because the Democrats are overplaying their hand again. Think about it - the alleged perp, Mark Foley, resigned immediately when the email/IM story broke last weekend. If the press and the Dems were at all concerned with what Foley did, that should have been the end of it. But they're going after Denny Hastert's head like he was Foley's pimp. One Cindy Sheehan-esque Dem congressional candidate in Minnesota-6 has put out a despicably mendacious ad accusing the entire Republican leadership of "covering up" for a "child molester." And now the scuttlebutt is that the Donk "warroom" is going to start outting every gay GOP officeholder and staffer on Capitol Hill, probably including false accusations as well, all in the belief that religious conservatives, whom libs will never be convinced aren't homophobic, will abandon the Republicans in droves on Election Day - thus putting into power the party that hates them and everything they believe in and stand for. Apparently they'll never be convinced that we aren't dumber than a box of hair as well.
This is the Wellstone Funeral writ large. Indeed, it's worse than that because nobody can convince me that if Mark Foley was playing electronic "where the girls aren't," there aren't at least a handful of Dem congresscritters who haven't been doing that and worse. Just as with the whole Abramoff falderol, this crap will boomerang, and hard.
In this post-Clinton, post-media-monopoly, instant-information age, dirty tricks just aren't what they used to be. It's too easy to poke holes in them, get out the other side of the story, and frankly, too difficult to shock people anymore. The fact of the matter is that the Democrats are engaged in gay-bashing; they're condemning the GOP leadership for NOT engaging in domestic surveillance of private communications of a gay man on the assumption that because he's gay, he's a child molester. This from the same crowd that tried to force the Boy Scouts to accept gay scoutmasters. I guess it's too bad Foley wasn't an Islamist terrorist; that would have been the perfect defense.
It really is that obvious. Everybody sees this for what it is. The Democrats have turned to a cybersex scandal - which they told us for years was a pol's "private" life irrelevant to his public job performance when it was one of theirs - because they have no agenda they can successfully run on and no ideas they can admit to. All they have is the politics of personal destruction. And that can only succeed if Beltway Republicans let themselves get stampeded into disarray.
And if Drudge's story that broke today has it right, there might not even be a scandal at all.
Take heart, Kay. Denny Hastert reiterated today that he's not going anywhere. Boehner and Blount (sort of) and the rank & file are closing ranks behind him. The counterpush has begun. And the backlash will follow.
Count on it.
UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt bullet-points the above as only a trained attorney can.
posted by JASmius at 10:35 PM
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