Well, this pretty much establishes the kids were minors, making this a criminal issue. Certainly is a tragedy, for those Foley victimized. This guys gonna burn, and deservedly so. Plus, he wasn't even that smooth.

C'mon Repubs...let's see a defense!

"Uh, Clinton was worse"?

LOL...you guys define hypocrisy

Another example that those who scream the loudest about something are probably the worst violators behind the scenes!

Wonder if he'll get some mental health counceling? What a piece of scum of the worst kind. Preying on children is the lowest.

Another bit of upstanding behavior from the "Party of Family Values."

Our worlds just excactly like what the Bible says it is-

Jer. 17:9 says that

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?

Umm. I do not see anyone defending this guy.

Please do not make this a political thing. That he's Republican has nothing to do with the crime he committed. Let's keep the focus on that, not on your politics. The fact that you'd use something like this as a weapon to stump for your party is pretty insensitive and sick. You're giving liberals (like myself) a bad name.

Well, they DO say in politics that the best way to lose an election is to be found in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy...
But the angle that he wrote the laws that he violated just astounds me. It just goes to show, yet again, that anything that a fiction writer can cook up will always be bettered by real life.

give me a break matt. Get off your stump and get real this could be anyone. Sexual pedophilia is not limited to a political party base. Lets get of the rhetoric and get the guy behind bars. That is what matters.

it has nothing to do with him being a democrat or a republican either way he is a sick man that clearly made sexual comments towards a minor. I am tired of hearing that the Democrats "conspired" to bring this up so close mid term elections. The fact is that it was brought up and that he needs to face the consequences.

I think it's more of a travesty that a man can become a state representative while still mistaking "you're" and "your"

Stop turning this into a political debate. It had nothing to do with his affiliation, just the fact that he was a sick man in power. Now he's removed, and hopefully he will be prosecuted. Get a life.

sad thing is, if he were a female high school teacher doing this, it would be a misdemeanor, especially if he claimed he was Bi-polar, which he probably will at some point

This isn't a dem/rep thing. It's a sick, twisted, criminal human thing. I can't think of one republican who won't be delighted to see this guy go down, and deservedly so.

Priceless...I hope they punish him to the fullest extent of the strict laws he worked so diligently to pass.

let's bring down all the pompous creeps in government who preach one thing and do another; all of them, from president cheney, w the wonder dog, and the rest of the self-righteous draft-dodgers who feel comfortable telling men to go and die when they were unwilling to do it during the vietnam war.

Ha. This makes the user comments on the original article pretty laughable. This isn't a Democrat vs. Republican issue people, and it's definitely not liberal propaganda. Both parties need a lesson in accountability. Let's quit pointing fingers and work together to keep criminals out of Washington.

hypocrite
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

I wonder why it boils down to a Democrat/Republican thing with everyone as if it means every other one is involved. Because he's a hypocrite? That's every one of them, guys.

It's not about which party can be more disgusting. This is a non-partisan issue.

I mean, the sex offender registry doesn't list political affiliation on it, does it?

But really... What's a pederast, Walter?