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From: Marc Perkel
Re: Foleygate -- does it help the GOP?
Date: Oct. 4, 2006
Many Republicans are worried that former congressman Mark Foley's sex scandal with underage boys will hurt Republicans in this year's elections.
But it may end up helping them -- because it draws attention away from all the other scandals that might affect the election even more.
For example, the Foley scandal distracts attention that just last week was focused on a Congress that passed a law allowing Bush to set up a network of secret prison torture camps.
It also passed a 700 mile fence on the Mexican border but didn't allocate the money to build it.
The scandal also distracts from the National Intelligence Estimate saying that the war in Iraq is making terrorism worse.
Or that Osama bin Laden is still free.
Or that Iraq is in a civil war.
Or that 3000 soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan for nothing.
Or that we are now losing the war in Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
Or the Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay scandals.
Or of hurricane Katrina scandals.
Or that the national debt is about to exceed 10 trillion dollars.
Or the Abu Ghraib scandal.
And there's Halliburton no-bid contracts, global warming, the failed war in Lebanon, failed diplomacy with Iran and North Korea, ignoring the Geneva Conventions, the United Nations, and the Anti-ballistic treaty, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, warrantless wire tapping of our phone conversations, no weapons of mass destruction, and Bob Woodward's latest book "State of Denial".
So although this sex scandal is bad for Republicans, it isn't nearly as bad as all the other scandals.
Besides, Clinton won with a sex scandal.
I think Republicans are better off dealing with a sex scandal than dealing with a record of failure.
I'm Marc Perkel - And I approved this message!
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