Ann Coulter nails the real game playing and hypocrisy behind the Foley scandal, and it goes far beyond one warped man’s abuse of his own power. I’ll say again: I’m not excusing Foley. I’m just saying that this scandal is about politics and not about his conduct. And to the extent the Republicans are falling all over each other, that’s also not about consciousness of guilt or sin; it too reflects purely political maneuvering because there is an imminent election.
UPDATE: Teri O’Brien, who has her own blog, but to whom I’m linking through Webloggin, keeps her eye on the ball, which isn’t about feigned moral outrage.
Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Republicans
Yes, the Republicans’ behavior is beyond foul, but that’s what one expects from politicians, I guess. The arguments for term limits are endless.
What interests me about this “backstory” is not necessarily that the Democrats will relentlessly exploit everything they can find – and will of course overdo it and blow it with the electorate, they do NOT know when to say “enough” – but a point someone brought up yesterday somewhere – I forget whether I was online, listening to the radio, or where it came up.
But it was simply this: what kid on the planet keeps IMs for three years, to be rolled out at the proper time? THREE YEARS! That is a suspiciously hell of a long time for a teenager to hang on to an IM, is it not?
E-mail, okay, that you stick more or less automatically into a file – but IMs? I don’t believe I’ve ever kept an IM alive for longer than it took to have the conversation.
Have any of you?
I only have IM for work, so I do keep those, but like JJ said, I don’t know anyone who keeps IMs for a day much less three years!