[Talk] Re: Voting advice

[Nick Simicich]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:07, Chadwick E. Labno wrote:
> Steven Benmosh wrote:
> 
> > So you would vote for pedophiles
> 
> Are you referring to X-Congressman  Gerry Eastman Studds, Democrat 
> Massachusetts 1973-1996?

The difference is that as a Democrat, statutory rape and public censure
(one wonders why he was not charged and convicted) is an expected part
of the job - even after this he was re-elected several times.  So the
answer is yes, Democrats will vote for rapists and (technically)
pedophiles, although I think that the original European standard for
actual pedophilia is correct, public hair makes you a sexual adult,
while wanting to have sex with someone who is too immature to grow pubic
hair makes you a pedophile.  (See: merkin) But here in the west we go
strictly by age.

So the NAMBLA people should continue to vote democratic.

The real point is that both sides have had their sex scandals, including
leaders who are attracted to the pretty little pages and who can't keep
it in their pants regarding them.  One difference is that Republicans,
when caught, generally resign. 

Any congressman having a relationship with a page, no matter what the
S/O is wrong by today's standards, in that power relationships are
considered wrong and implicit sexual harassment.

Note that Foley never actually managed to nail a page, or at least that
is how I read the local scandal sheets.  Not for lack of trying, though,
and it is clear that he was/is out of control, writing e-mail and IM on
a public system to the pages. Yesterday's revelation, that he was
molested by a Catholic Priest, adds more fuel to the fire.

My hope is that the fallout from this will be better privacy protection
(by statute) of mail systems and IM systems. I would not be surprised if
the congressmen enacted only rules for their own systems with no rules
for private systems.

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