One More Personal Note on the Mark Foley Follies and Reaction To It

While Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, tries to blame Democrats (on Rush Limbaugh's show) for the Mark Foley scandal (right, they wrote these emails, I guess), let me add that I am also just as disgusted at those who would have the Democrats "use" the Mark Foley PredatorGate matter as a big percentage point for the mid-term elections that occur five weeks from today.

If Dems do not have anything better to offer than using the Foley matter to their advantage, then we won't be any better off if Democrats regain one or both sides of Capitol Hill. This would make the blues as twisted and sick as the reds currently in office.

Thankfully, I think some of the Dems running DO offer something of value. Also, frankly, it's more often the Republicans claiming the Dems will use this awful story to their advantage than Dems actually creating talking points ON this matter. I've certainly not see "talking points" for Dems or lefties in my reading or email.

Let's keep the Dems running on their actual plans, without resorting to this nonsence.

Interestingly, just before the Foley scandal broke, a new poll with NBC got these results just announced by Tim Russert:

18% favor Republicans
51% do NOT favor Republicans