“We’re Getting Into Very Dangerous Territory”
That's the lead sentence in a piece by the Prowler, quoting a Democratic Leadership aide about David Corn's revelation about the "list" of gay Republican staffers. It seems there are a few people who realize that Democrats are in serious danger of getting cut by their own double edged sword. Well, yeah. We've been warning about that for a while now.
"We're getting into very dangerous territory, and I've warned my colleagues to be careful." That's what a Democrat leadership aide was saying on Wednesday, as word circulated about David Corn's blog posting that revealed that a list of gay Republicans congressional staffers was circulating through emails.
Such a list has been talked about for months, if not years, by more militant homosexual activists, who have threatened to out Republican congressional staffers or even congressmen if they take positions counter to their gay lifestyle.
Now, in the wake of the Rep. Mark Foley scandal, a form of "the list" is again circulating among journalists and any other interested third parties.
"If that list is made public, all of the political gains we've made in the past 96 hours get flushed down the toilet," says the leadership aide.
Just as troubling are concerns among some House Democrat staff that there are potential scandals lurking of a similar vein for them. According to another Democrat source, "I've been warning my people to stay away from this story because you just don't know what will come back to bite you."
There was just an object lesson from Brazil on how smear campaigns can bite the attempted user much worse than the intended target. But the Democrats seem to be caught in the momentum right now and appear to be hurtling toward a cliff with no way to stop.
By K T Cat, October 5, 2006 @ 6:05 am
This whole thing is just asinine. Like anyone is going to change their ideology because Mark Foley likes little boys.
By syn, October 5, 2006 @ 6:18 am
Dems and the media simply do not understand what they have been sucked into; a witch-hunt to burn at the stake anyone who does not obey the ideological Left’s collective control.
About four years ago I was introduced for the first time to David Horowitz’s work in exposing his youthful days as member of the ‘distructive generation’, aka the New Left (the progressive Leftist movement) and the one theme which I took from David’s experience as a youthful Leftist was that the Left is vicious. His experience has never been more profoundly obvious to me than what is happening today. I’m not sure but isn’t Corn an ardent supporter/member of the New Left?
By Former Republican, October 5, 2006 @ 9:15 am
Syn, your post baffles me. “the ideological Left’s collective control”? You have a reasonable argument that what’s happening is a witch hunt, but it’s being propelled by lots of people, most particularly including a lot of the Republican base. The Washington Times has called for Hastert’s resignation. Is it part of the “ideological Left”?
By BubbaB, October 5, 2006 @ 12:10 pm
Former Republican:
WHO in the Washington Times? The editor-in-chief, or one of the editorialists, or one of the columnists? I could argue that the New York Times has promoted modern-day slavery and euthanasia of the elderly since it was “in” the NYT…
K T Cat:
Excellent point!
syn:
I don’t care what anybody else says, I think you are all right!! ;^)
By Bill Franklin, October 5, 2006 @ 1:52 pm
This post confuses me. A previous post asserted “the list” was put together by homo-hating Democrats, not militant homosexuals who are trying to stop anti-gay legistlation. Maybe these gays are self loathing? In any case this doesn’t appear to be a homo-hating Democrat created problem, despite the spin to pin it on such a group. I do agree that lists like this one affect both parties– and well they should.