Reply #28: I've heard that theory from a lot of people ... [View All]

... But I ain't buying. Sure they want a distraction, but 'outing' one of their own as a pedophile, six weeks before an election? Sorry, I don't think THIS is what they would have deliberatly picked as a 'distraction'.

The fact that the GOP is the pander-to-the-Fundie-base party makes this much worse for them than most any other scandal. And don't forget they're spinning their pro-torture stance as 'look at the drastic measures we're willing to take to keep America safe'. There's no spinning the Foley story.

These guys are smart, but we often give them credit for being smarter than they actually are. They've also been caught doing some really DUMB things. Sure there was 'talk' about Foley long before now. But in their arrogance, they thought they could contain it, just as they do everything else.

But then fate intervened ...