The swiftboating has begun

[proud2BlibKansan]

CNN is reporting that the identity of the page Foley corresponded with has been leaked and he is receiving death threats.

Such nice warm republican family values.

[bullimiami]

1. republicans are a nice bunch. dontcha think?

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I just love their family values

NOT

[madokie]

19. I think they should not have to worry about room and board

for the rest of their lying assed lives, is what I think, indict, convict and incarcerate

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. And their fearless leaders:

Impeach
Indict
Imprison

[babylonsister]

2. Why would anyone want to leak his name? That's just sick, and

a good reason why his parents didn't want him to become part of the story.
Their family values schtick is taking a beating, and rightly so.

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. The press is probably going nuts looking for him

It's the story of the year.

[Junkdrawer]

7. A warning to keep quiet...

The pages have been getting threats on their message board too...

[babylonsister]

9. Hmmm, never thought of that. I think the IMs are enough to

get lots of people in trouble, for being involved and being enablers. I don't know what the benefit of any page coming forward would be, other than to put a sweet young face on the outrage.

[Junkdrawer]

12. I'll bet that for every page that has come forward, ten are keeping quiet.

My bet is this thing goes deeper than most would guess.

[JohnnyLib2]

13. I agree, from professional experience.

There's bound to be more. If the stories don't show up in MSM this week, someone will SELL a story soon. Free enterprise system and all that.

[wicket]

15. My god, these people are monsters

:grr:

[Junkdrawer]

16. Think of it as a real-life vampire movie...

Spreading Republican values through the generations...

[Gman]

3. Republicans and death threats

go hand in hand. That's the way they are. That's why they have to go.

[Philosoraptor]

4. but of course, death threats to the victims, I expected it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Can you imagine if Foley was gettiing death threats?

They would be all over it. Damn bastards.

[acmejack]

10. They would be blaming it on us.

Probably be picking up "Terrorists" right now. Something the FBI can do well. They can't catch Anthrax killers or even tell the difference between homemade and weaponized stuff, it takes them five years! They can't get on a Congressman molesting pages. No, no they can bust kooks without a car wanting to destroy the Sears Tower, now that they can do!

FBI, the laughing stock of law enforcement. They desperately need another Efram Zimbalest puff show to boost their image...

[HereSince1628]

11. Somehow, I'd be surprised if the Foley camp hasn't gotten them.

The GOP often acts like a wounded Elephant striking out at anything that moves in its myopic field of view.

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. Oh we would know

I can't imagine them keeping quiet about someone making death threats to one of their own. No way.

[marmar]

14. There's no lower a life form on the planet than a Repug...

except maybe a College Repug.

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. Well there are Nazis

Never mind, these repukes are no different from Nazis. The American Nazi Party is probably where a lot of them got their start in politics.

[matcom]

17. And yet another Democrat is "born"

the writing is on the wall kid. Liberals wouldn't do this to you. Wake up

[marmar]

18. The animation in your sig line...

makes me feel like I've spent an hour in an Amsterdam coffeeshop. :smoke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. The problem is the repukes pay these kids

A friend of mine is a good liberal Democratic but like many of us, doesn't pay much attention to politics unless an election is coming up. She was excited to tell me not long ago that her son, a college junior, had been recruited by a local state senator (a repuke) to help on his re-election campaign. She thought I would be proud of him.

I about gagged. This particular state senator is as far right as you can get in this state. He is part of a pack trying to ban stem cell research, destroy public schools, make Christianity the official religion, etc, ad nauseum. I pointed all this out to my friend, and she said well her son was bright enough to know those positions are wrong. He was raised by 2 liberal Dems who always taught their kids liberal values.

LOL 6 months after being swept up by this repuke, the kid is spouting RW talking points at family gatherings and my friend is about to choke the life out of the kid. HIs dad is livid that they didn't talk him out of going to work for this RW nutcase.

Here's the problem - the state senator has already found scholarship money for the kid to help pay his tuition and he signed him up for some work next summer in DC. So the kid is getting a free summer in DC and help with his tuition. And he has only been involved with the repukes for 6 months.

His mom now tells me it is like a cult. They took ahold of her kid and immediately began dangling treats in his face.

Sickening, eh?

[KharmaTrain]

20. Is This Page Still Underage?

Calling all DU lawyers...according to my vague knowledge, wouldn't divulging the name of a minor be a violation of some law?

Remember, Hastert was hoping to shut the pages up by calling in the FBI that would scare them with having to testify...and I'm sure the Reynolds/DeLay RNCC slime machine has been hard at work all weekend checking their lists once, twice, thrice on every page who Foley could have come in contact with over the past decade...and preparing to send horse heads in their mailboxes.

Considering there are only 100 or so pages any given year, it's not hard to identify who a page was...especially since we know which Congresscritter sponsored him.

The real irony here is how Hastert and other claimed that they didn't investigate to protect the family and now will gladly expose them if it means holding on to their power.

[proud2BlibKansan]

38. I heard he was 17 and I heard he was 19

So who knows.

[NashVegas]

21. Some RW Blog Claims to Have IM Chat Kid's Identity

and says they will tell all tomorrow. Sorry, I forget which one. I think it's the Nuthouse.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

22. That isn't swiftboating. It's "Brown Shirting"

Swift Boating is smearing the messenger.

What's happening here are thugs threatening somebody who got out of line. They are like Hitler's Brown Shirts using intimidation on Jews and anyone else who stood up to Hitler and the Nazis.

[mom cat]

23. Bingo! Thanks for that clarification!

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

28. Glad to be of service. Let;'s play pin the label on the thug!

nm

[mom cat]

41. There are a lot of thugs, but I think that we can manage.

:evilgrin:

[conscious evolution]

42. It's "Brown Shirting"

That should be the title of this thread

[dancingme]

24. Michelle Malkin is probably involved

or she stirred up her psycho followers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

39. I haven't checked her out lately

Wonder what crap she is spreading about this.

[HughBeaumont]

25. WOW, victims of pedophilia getting death threats.

Just when you think these bastard fucking lowlifes couldn't get any more diseased.

We should have "Kick a Neo-Con Repeatedly In the Ass" Day. Anyone who defends pedophilia, anyone who defends war, anyone who defends job offshoring, anyone who defends Bewsh - a boot in the ass.

[truthisfreedom]

26. rethugs are neanderthals. they're the part of the species we failed to

purge from our midst while it was still legal... the violent idiots. one would think natural selection would have eliminated them already, but we haven't been that lucky.

[tblue37]

27. Well, it is guaranteed that the boy and his parents

are good, well-connected, affluent Republicans who have always strongly supported the Republican Party. If that were not the case, he would never have gotten the position as a Republican page. Attacking him is probably not going to go over well with other well-connected Republican parents who have sent their children to be pages or who had thought about doing so.

[Hepburn]

29. OMG......how sick and evil!!!

I wonder if Rove is behind this? Fits the style of that fat asshole. Why in the world would any DECENT person threaten a child who has come forward and reported inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature direted towards him/her by an adult in a position of authority? That reminds me too much of the sick and evil actions of the Roman Catholic church when reports started to flood the gates about the sick, perverted pedeophile people it had protected for years.

I cannot imagine how evil a person has to be to threaten a child who is reporting being molested or having sexual advances made to him/her by an adult. It takes a really evil, sick mentality to do this. But...then...that phrase does seem to righteously describe a lot of members of the Repuke party.

:puke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

40. Love that sig line pic!!

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Well, Drudge called these kids "beasts", didn't he?

Your Republican Party. Placing blame squarely where it belongs!

[nam78_two]

31. jeesus..these people are just thugs and criminals

:grr:

[BlueEyedSon]

32. More like revenge or blackmail

[Jack Rabbit]

35. This is why it would have been preferable to handle the matter quietly

If Hastert had told Foley not to run for re-election and keep his nose clean until he left Congress. it might not have come to this.

I feel sorry for that boy and his family.