I guess the same sorts of people who think you can help a country by bombing it might think you can help kids by having sex with them.

Ummm. Did we catch the Plame-gate traitor yet? I most have dozed off for a minute there.

Don’t forget there are “supposedly” churches working for Satan. The media mainstream might have unlocked a web that needs to be released.

If you look at those pictures, research those names, and examine those individuals’ morals, beliefs and principals, their past involvement you will see a pattern that is all the same.

Satan wants his followers to hide in respected churches, turn them upside down, so they will have a bad reputation, so everyone will give up in their faith in God because all people see is evil.

Are all of these individuals associate with one another truly following the 10 commandments from the Holy Bible, and working for the Church of God, or is it darkness we have?

God Bless

I am appalled at the depths that Americans have sunk. It does not relate to a political party, although there is some truth to their actions. It seems that the Bible is actually a predictor of the depths of depravity that the human race will sink. Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on the USA as well as other countries. But We are supposed to be a Christian nation.

No one with this gentleman's record should be given any political or professional position.

Everyone needs to take a moment and thank God that this article finally surfaced! Steve Aiken is a creep! Anyone that sexually assaults an innocent child in their sleep deseves to be put away forever. Think of the reprecussions that his actions have on the lives of his vicitms. Ponder how his wife and daughter have been affected. Whether or not this is media-hype and/or an attempt to take Republicans out of Congress, anyone who works for a former cross-burner and who boast intolerance on a tacky website does not deserve to influence politcs.

On his personal website Aiken's memo under his picture states: "former police officer ('cause you rape girls in your church), former bodyguard (cause your weak and rape women), and Washington DC lobbyist (because people who lobby for churches after they rape the congregation, generally aren't well accepted)..."Don't just sit there get involved" (i.e. dont just sit there, get up and rape some innocent teenage girls in their sleep).

Oh and the fact that he was proud of having his picture with Tom DeLay (who took bribes (okay, only once)) is just another reason he should not be involved in the slightest with politics.

Also, the fact that Graf states that what Aiken did was no more severe than serving alcohol to a minor is ridiculous--both are immoral and contradict what true and wholesome politicians should stand for.

My advice to Aiken, is to stop raping America and working for other people who do the same.

My advice to Arizona is to vote for a true and wholesome politician!

Randy Graf is so far right he's can't even stand up straight. He's a bigot and an idiot. Even the Republicans in S. AZ think he's nuts. It makes perfect sense to me to have a CONVICTED child molester running a Republican's campaign. You can not believe what crawls out of the woodword here in Arizona when the Republicans start campaigning.
Let's see how does that go, something like "do as I say, not as I do". It's the Republican/GOP (Grap Our Profits) theme song.

This has never been a secret. Steve has discussed it many times openly including on his radio program. I knew about it years ago. It's not news. Kolbe tried to exploit it in the last election and is probably doing it again. If Steve Aiken had, in fact, been guilty of the crimes for which he had been accused, he would have spent years in jail. The fact that there was not enough evidence to convict him of anything other than "corrupting a minor" charge, the girls had been kicked out of the program, and that one of the minors apologized to Mr. and Mrs. Aiken for lying under oath suggests that this is another case of youth working the system for their own purposes. Can the Kolbe/Huffman team do nothing more than try to create sensational stories? Can't they ever talk about the issues?

Let s/he who is without sin cast the first stone. It sure looks like a lot of people see themselves as perfected in their own eyes. Fact is, people can only see in others that which they see in themselves.

Gotcha. ABC's done the Hasert story followed back to back with some obscure nobody GOP scandal. Not hard to figure out the pattern. Let's try balancing this with some of the Democrat slobs like Cynthia McKinney, Jefferson and Patrick Kennedy articles or is that too tough a balance?

Way to go Brian Ross! You managed to uncover a piece of news that occured 11 years ago and has been published in Steve Aiken's book, not to mention discussed by him publicly many times. That must have taken an incredible amount of investigative reporting. With all that, you still couldn't get the facts straight. Since I can't believe you would stoop so low as to deliberately misrepresent the facts (after all you ARE a journalist) I have to assume it's your inferior journalistic abilities that have led you to mislabel someone a "sex offender" and leave out the information about Steve Aiken being falsely accused.

Disgusting! And this is not the first time that some family values, church-going Republican hypocrite turns out to be a sexual pervert. There was that doctor (I forgot his name)that Bush appointed to the FDA, a very big moralistic Christian who resigned after his wife accused him of abuse and rape. Then those two pedophiles that worked for Homeland Security, of all places. Now this guy. Do these people ever do background checks or are all the jobs handed out to friends and relatives? That's the thing with those who preach morality too loud - most of the time they are not practicing what they preach. Democrats are no saints, but I can't trust Republicans as they are turning out to be morally corrupt in every way.

it's so amazing to me that Republicans are so quick to take stories like these and turn them into campaign issues by saying that if he were a Democrat, no one would notice.
The bottom line is this--
percepetions are EVERYTHING. I mean, seriously, someone with a dubious past placed in a highly visible position where they are expected to "carry the message" for whatever party should be prepared to undergo some scrutiny. After all, if this guy is to "sell" his candidate, the "buyer" has a right to know how good--or flawed--his judgement is. PERIOD.

People here seem to think Aiken is not a sex offender. In fact, he plea bargained to get the jail time he did. He did not appeal or lost his appeal. This leads to a logical conclusion the evidence would have convicted him of much worse than corruption of a minor. PA doesn't require sex offenders to register obviously. His former police department obviously did not defend him. So yes he is a sex offender and he is still working with teens, ie. he continues his ministry via radio and actively recruits teens to work with him. How anyone cannot come to a logical conclusion on this is beyond me. The subsequent conclusion must be that those who think it is ok must in fact be sex offenders even if only in their own minds. This is not a political party or a religious issue. It is simply a showing of the lack of morals of those in power and those who support them. My hope is to see, sometime before I die, good people actually take this country back from the immoral and inhumane hypocrits who hold power in current offices and run the big businesses who strive to keep them in office.

What I would like to see is someone take a look at all those pedophiles being caught in those Dateline episodes to see just how many of them are conservative republicans.
I would be willing to bet that ALL of them are republicans!
The party of morals, has by far the most immoral people in it!

False accusations of sexual assault are exceedingly rare. Protestations of innocence are the rule for sex offenders. They have a character disorder, which causes them to rationalize their behavior.

When you go around standing on a soapbox telling everyone else what "family values" are all about, the you should expect that your own lack of commitment to those will face scrutiny. This is where Republicans, once again, refuse to accept responsibility - it seems they only believe it is news if someone else does something wrong, not themselves.

Don't campaign on a bunch of vague "traditional" values if your own life is filled with being a scumbag. When a party grounds itself on a dishonorable televangelista empire, what does the public expect? Honesty?

Sure. . .and Pat Robertson blamed Ellen DeGeneres hosting the Emmy Awards for Hurricane Katrina.

The American people should be embarassed that any of these clowns have ever held public office. If this is the best we can do, we don't need to bother blaiming the gays any longer - there are plenty of mirrors around for ourselves.

This is great news! This little creep broadcasts on a local station in Tucson and is even less knowledgable than Hannity.

It amazes me the number of "Christians" that rise up to defend such a man that Jesus himself would probably find difficult to forgive, if these charges are true.
Someone posted earlier, "Let he who is without sin", without giving a second thought to what Jesus said about those who would harm the innocent: "it would be better for them to have a millstone tied about their necks and cast into the depths than to face an angry God"... pardon the loose translation from memory... in the airport, Bible packed in luggage.
The Republican Party has come to represent EVERYTHING *anti-Christ*, they believe that believers of the Gospels are suckers and that our votes can be bought.
In their lives and in their politics, they say one thing and DO another.

God Bless all,

...and keep that guy away from your daughters, grand-daughters, neices, well, just keep him away from the kids.

it's literally time to jet. :)

Degeneracy: the face of the GOP.

Thanks for pointing out the hypocrisy of the GOP. Like Jack Burkman recently propositioning girls, or Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde divorcing their wives (Newt while his wife was receiving cancer treatment) and then hypocritically leading the charge against Clinton. Oh yeah, let's not forget the GOP Homeland Security pedophile Brian Doyle too (and Jeff Gannon/James Guckert, porn star/faux journalist). (and of course DeLay, Cunningham, Safavian, Libby, Rove and all the others)

I'd like all journalists to focus on how the GOP/RNC promote homosexuality within their highest ranks without telling their christian coalition base as well. James West and Edward L. Schrock are just the tip of the iceberg. If the NY Times is going to do a front page story on the Clinton marriage, we can have 6 months of closet case elephants that take their cue from J. Edgar Hoover. Typical of all these fools that try to legislate morality. They're always doing what they accuse their adversaries of doing.

ps. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins ... whoever takes on corporatism and all the illegal wars it spawns will win the future of America.