Gerry Stubbs died just recently. Stubbs had been the Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, who was censured in 1983 because of a sexual relationship he had with a male congressional page when the page was only 17. Republican Dan Crane was censured at the same time for having a relationship with a 17 year old female congressional page. Crane apologized profusely, Stubbs did not. Cranes constituents kicked him out of office, Stubbs constituents cheered him.
Reading an associated press story a few weeks ago about Stubbs death, I was compelled to read it again twice. While it made prominent mention of the current Foley scandal, and the fact that Foley is a Republican, nowhere did the article mention that Stubbs was a Democrat………no where ! Does the anti-Republican bias in the press have to be that transparent?
How many Republican ’scandals’ have newspapers brought to light just lately? And if that is not enough, former Democratic Senator, Dennis DeConcini, will have a book coming out in November (I’m sure just before the mid-term elections) in which he lambastes Senator John McCain. Mind you, the charges DeConcini makes are dredged up from the ‘Keating 5′ scandal from the late ’80’s, and McCain was found not to have done any political favors for the former S&L boss, and reimbursed Keating for some vacation time spent at Keating’s vacation home, but the Democratic strategy churns on.
What is the ‘Democratic strategy’ you ask? It started many months ago, when we began to hear the Democratic leadership use the same talking points about Republicans, referring to a ‘culture of corruption.’ (this conveniently takes the focus off the Dems, who have basked in a culture of corruption for several years, like registering dead people as voters, offering cocaine in return for vote fraud in Ohio, their own aforementioned page scandal, etc). With collusion from newspapers around the country, very conveniently, we are seeing a preponderance of Republican ’scandals’, many of which are not based in fact, but only in perception.
So it was with Foley and Ney and Renzi and DeLay, one apparently guilty, one guilty of a minor offence and charges against two others with no proof of guilt. All were ‘outed’ by a democratic operative in conjunction with a participating news publications. The goal of the democratic party, of course, is to create a public perception of a ‘culture of corruption’ in preparation for November 7th, and for 2008.
In Arizona, where the aforementioned DeConcini resides, there is an underhanded attempt by the democratic candidate for congress, running against Rick Renzi to smear his name publicly using questionable information sources, obedient to the democratic party. Ellen Simon, the former ACLU attorney sites the ‘New Times’, an extreme left-wing publication which weekly smears Republicans, conservatives and Christians in front page headlines that are always accusational.
In a campaign TV commercial, Simon juxtaposes a picture of Renzi with DeLay, Foley and others, stating that Renzi is considered one of the thirteen most corrupt members of congress. As one would expect, there is no source cited below this accusation. The democratic tactic is to publicly accuse, without evidence, to build upon the fictional flood of information suggesting corruption, and then to sit back while complicit newspapers and television news hacks help build the momentum.
The real corruption only exists in this methodical strategy of lying, misrepresenting and misleading the public. The democratic party sees this as a method to win in November and win in ‘08.