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| Republican Gays are Closeted Dems |
| 2006-10-12 |
| The complex nature of the "dirty trick" against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic operatives. Instead, the GOP has played a trick on itself. The party brought so-called gay Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize that the confidential information they held about a secret gay network was political dynamite that could backfire. At this point in the scandal, the issue is not whether there was such a network, but how big it is. CBS Evening News correspondent Gloria Borger reported the emerging belief that "a group of high-level gay Republican staffers were protecting" Foley. A New York Times story by Mark Leibovich confirmed that gay Republicans have occupied "crucial staff positions" in Congress and "have played decisive roles in passing legislation, running campaigns and advancing careers." The mystery man at the center of the scandal, Jeff Trandahl, is supposed to be a "lifelong Republican" who is gay. But Trandahl, who supervised the congressional page program as House clerk and knew about the controversial Foley emails many years ago, has a strange way of showing his Republicanism. A search of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records over the last six years shows no financial contributions to the Republican Party or Republican candidates. Instead, Trandahl in 2000 gave $1,200 to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which gives over 80 percent of its political campaign money to Democrats. |
| Posted by:mcsegeek1 |
| #2 Seems to me the only guy we know covered it up was the guy who says he "blew the whistle" several years ago. So he blew the whistle. Nothing happened, so he shut up? He kept it quiet for three years, never repeating his claims to anyone else, never leaked it to the New York Times, never wrote a letter to the editor, never met with Woodward and Bernstein in a dark garage, and so covered it up since the first 'whistle. Therefore, HE is guilty of the 'cover up' and ought to go to jail! Why would anyone believe this scumbag that covered it up for three years? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-10-12 18:04 |
| #1 Hmmm - no mention of Juche, decided lack of spittle, and the KCNA slug was omitted, but the paranoia still gives it away. |
| Posted by: just sayin 2006-10-12 16:03 |