<p>He can leave the republic party and joins the Gay Old Party no?</p>
<p>Hopefully not too hot - the guy is 62.</p>
<p>New experiences in improved environments could keep him going for awhile. </p>
<p>Then there is the Bob Dole trick… (Doesn’t that seem ironic now?)</p>
<p>Note the GOP response to Craig vs. those to Vitter. Homophobia in full bloom. That’s what they get for walking around with sticks up their-- wait a sec…I need to think this one through.</p>
<p>Yup. See my post #4.</p>
<p>He “represents the Republican Party”.</p>
<p>cgm -</p>
<p>best response here. thanks for putting it in perspective.</p>
<p>—noob</p>
<p>Of course, let’s be fair: Bob Dole only promoted “heterosexual Viagra”; none of that homo stuff. Wonder if they sell it in different packaging? Maybe Craig and Foley and Haggard and Allen and etc. bought the stuff in the wrong package and that’s what made them do it. Rudy would know better, though, from living with his gay friends after being banished from the Mayor’s mansion.</p>
<p>Oh…sorry…never mind…I must’ve wandered in here by mistake, thinking that this is the “parents’ forum.” :rolleyes:</p>
<p>You’re forgiven. Mistakes happen.</p>
<p>I found a really nice 5-star hotel in Eagle, Idaho that advertises Romantic Getaways:</p>
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<p>“There’s just something about a luxurious hotel room that makes whispered sweet nothings sound even sweeter. Add a touch of elegance, a hint of indulgence, and you’ve got the makings for our Romance Package.”</p>
<p>I think we should write them and ask them to offer Larry and any male Reoublican friend of his choice a complimentary package. Bob Dole enhancement free of charge. For the good of the country, of course.</p>
<p>Make Love, Not War.</p>
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<p>Because he feared being convicted of the second charge, which, while more serious, might have been easier to prove. <<</p>
<p>According to the Statesman article, the other charge was “interference with privacy.” Is that a Peeping Tom sort of statute?</p>
<p>Google’s algorithms are really good. Did anyone else notice this thread’s banner (Sidebar) ad?</p>
<p>Sometimes gays are good and sometimes gays are naughty.</p>
<p>Sounds like the rest of us!!!</p>
<p>OK now on to something that doesn’t have anything to do with sex…or at least doesn’t yet have the sex angle…where’s Norman Hsu?</p>
<p>Didn’t mean to hijack this thread, but what does everyone think?</p>
<p>Maybe there is a sex angle that hasn’t been exploited yet but what to make of the Hsu story. I’m surprised that no one has started a thread on this yet.</p>
<p>If the Hsu fits, wear it. Yawn.</p>
<p>The people will decide the relative importance. Elections are fun, right? I’m looking forward to lots of fun in 14 months and 5 days.</p>
<p>Yawn…you really are a partisan, aren’t you.</p>
<p><breaks out=“” in=“” hysterical=“” laughter=“”> For the Busheviks and other Bush enablers to accuse anyone of being partisan is a good one.</breaks></p>
<p>I used to be a “bridge” Democrat that could talk and work across the aisle. No more. Bush has certainly radicalized me. What Rome did to Carthage…</p>
<p>TheDad: 
you are spot-on; that is a good one!</p>
<p>I personally consider myself to be a non-partisan “progressive.” But, because of this regime’s hypocrisy, lies and corruption, I will not, under any circumstances, vote for a Republican candidate. Unfortunately, the GOP doesn’t hold the monopoly on corruption–though I think they’ve elevated it to an art form thanks to Karl Rove. They party like it’s “1984!”</p>
<p>I think this current incarnation of the two party system is so steeped in corruption that only something revolutionary will change it. I’d like to see more stringent term limits. Senators “for life” don’t have much incentive to choose to do what’s right. The noblesse oblige attitude in DC is abhorrent. The city is a giant “pork” barrel. Where is the reform that has been talked about for decades now? Pols & PACS & corporations continue to line their pockets at our expense. The infrastructure of our cities is in decline. The educational reforms continually promised have not materialized. It doesn’t matter what platform a candidate runs on anymore. Empty promises followed by inertia and political logjams. When I watch CSPAN, I see a lot of empty seats. The Senate and the Congress essentially have no power to do anything–51 votes doesn’t get you anywhere. They pass a bill and it is vetoed. Or, they try to draft a bill and it is “porked” to death. The Senate and the House entertain similar bills, and then they have to reach a “compromise”." It’s a bad joke, and a giant waste of time. Trading favors, threats, extortion, blackmail…probably just business as usual in politics. Who knows how many pols on the hill are hiding secrets and leading double lives besides Craig, Foley & Vitter. (I’d bet that that madam’s black book that revealed Vitter as a client had some very big names in it that were suppressed.) Personally, I think a guy like DeLay or Abramoff is much more functionally dangerous than a “blowhard” like Craig.</p>
<p>There’s no one minding the store anymore either, the mainstream media has been castrated by the politics of economics and severely dumbed-down for the most part. (Look at the most reported stories this week–a sex scandal and a teen beauty pageant debacle.) People actually believe what they hear on FOX news and the White House approved talking points are repeated, ad nauseum by the press. The “liberal media” doesn’t exist anymore–it’s been bought out or relegated to the lunatic fringe.</p>
<p>And, I think we all have blood on our hands. I think it’s time to bring real “democracy” back and demand some accountability. I say everyone who is angry at this sorry state of affairs should bombard their Senatorial and Congressional officers with emails and phone calls to impeach the ********! Maybe we need to bring the 60’s back?</p>
<p>For better or for worse, I’ll be voting for the Democratic candidate come November 2008. I’m not a religious person, but God help us!</p>
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Of course you did. How fitting that you say this in a thread about hypocrisy.</p>
<p>TheDad said:
But jeerworthiness will not bring this party down. Remember that Bush voters genuinely like (or liked) him – they like his boneheaded Bushisms, they like his ranchiness, his convenient religious conversion, shoot, he looks like the bumbling lot of us who, by jiminy, mighta gotten Cs at Yale, given the chance.</p>
<p>The many headscratchers taken individually just look strange, but all together, what a package. </p>
<p>There was Gonzales; the legal firings; Abu Ghraib and Gtmo; Harriet Miers, Cheney’s ‘go f*** yourself’ comment to a reporter; Cheney shooting his friend and not reporting it immediately; Terry Schiavo – Bill Frist’s ‘diagnosis’ of her; Gayle Norton and the reaming of the Clean Air Act, and the no-Kyoto; the vast devastation that is South Louisiana still; the Valerie Plame discrace; of course there is that thing happening in Iraq involving Americans for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>But none of that will bring the 2008 GOP candidates down, but these might:
– gas prices go up and stay up
–house prices continue to fall</p>
<p>The GOP have done so much with so little that I wouldn’t discount them yet. All they need is:
–one ancient hearsay version of someone in a Swift Boat
–one Democrat candidate sounding his barbaric yawp (Dean)
And don’t forget they always have:
–raising the terror alert
–bringing in Osama bin Laden, or someone who looks like him </p>
<p>One little bitty sex scandal? Shewwwt, you know the perp is gonna find religion.</p>
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<p>I am not at all optimistic. These folks have been ruling us since the beginning of time. To get to the top in a blood sport like politics (IMO, the bloodiest sport of them all), one can not afford to have “weaknesses” like compassion, forgiveness, conscience and the like. Karl Rove demonstrated it brilliantly.</p>
<p>One’s political leaning is really irrelevant to the essence of the problem; though I must admit I find the hypocrisy particularly delicious.</p>