Gingrich: Dems' sex scandals are worse

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley.

Gingrich said Democrats have wanted to punish their offenders less than the GOP.

"What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality," Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy.

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Obviously, this is pretty lame rhetoric, and doesn't even come close to qualifying as what I used to call when teaching public speaking back in Baytown an "argument." Especially when coming from a man who dumped his wife, while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer, for a another woman, whom he later divorced after she caught him having an affair. Regardless of the spin here, former GOP Representative Mark Foley sent suggestive emails and IMs to several boys under the age of eighteen, which were then covered up by the Republican House leadership.

However, the big blowhard tub-of-lard with helmet-hair who once served as Speaker of the House offers Democrats a valuble lesson if you kind of squint and read between the lines: moral indignation and judgment in the political sphere, especially about sex, is a dangerous game to play, which, I'm hoping, conservatives everywhere are beginning to figure out. Democrats, meanwhile, have their heads so far up their asses on this that they're talking through their necks.

As I wrote a couple of days ago, Foley's cyber-talk was pretty sleazy and creepy, and probably a firing offense if uttered by anyone in any sort of senior/subordinate relationship with these kids: you know, teacher/student, coach/athlete, manager/employee, that sort of thing. But Foley wasn't their boss or coach, and he had no direct control over their fates. Certainly his behavior is worth some sort of reprimand, but the Democrats and corporate media are calling the guy a "predator" without any evidence at all to support it. Instead of seizing on the real issue here, Republican hypocricy on issues of homosexuality and sex in general, and pretty much all pet conservative issues for that matter, the stinking donkey party is playing right into the hands of the sexual alarmists of the right wing. In other words, the Dems are going balls-to-the-wall for some short term political gain, but totally bolstering the conservative sex freak out position in the long run.

This is dumb, dumb, dumb, and I fear there'll be hell to pay sometime soon. Doesn't anybody remember what they did to Clinton? The Democrats need to calm down, take a long breath, and ask themselves if this is really worth it. They really are playing with fire.

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