We Clean Our House, They Don't

"The mere allegation" is never "enough" if it's a Democrat.

by Rod D. Martin
October 12, 2006

Talk to rank-and-file conservatives anywhere in America on any issue on any day, and their number-one complaint is always this:  “the Republicans don’t stand up for themselves the way Democrats do”.

They’re right.  The Mark Foley case proves it.

When the maybe-a-pedophile-maybe-just-a-sicko Foley scandal broke, Speaker Hastert’s troops all went on defense.  They explained (convincingly to some) that it’s not reasonable to assume from an email asking what a page wants for his birthday that a Congressman is a pervert who ought to be in jail.  They also noted (correctly) that if they had gone after him on such scanty evidence, the media would have annihilated them for “homophobia”.

But as usual, they completely missed the one, the only point that matters.

When Democrats had a known pedophile, Massachusetts’ Gerry Studds, in their midst -- one who really did it, and actually confessed -- they did nothing.  And then they re-elected him not once but six more time…