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Save the
Children
by The Daily Brew
Are We Having Fun Yet? The GOP poured gasoline
all over their heads
and lit it on fire five weeks before the election.
Seriously, have any
of you had this much fun since Smirky McTortureburton
stole the Oval
Office in 2000? Me either. Let me
ask this, have any of you been in a
crowd of people all week who weren't talking
about this story? Me
either. "Mastergate" is going to be the
gift that keeps on giving,
right through election day.
Now, I am about to say something that isn't "on
script" for a partisan
Democrat, so first, the disclaimer. I don't
think 50 year old men have
any business coming onto teenagers. That
being said, one reason I can
laugh about this is because I remember what I
was like when I was 16.
If Foley had been trying to make me his cyber-wackoff
buddy when I was
a kid, I would have made a total mockery out
of him. Seriously. I
would have invited my crew over, and we would
have played right along
with him on the instant message chat, while we
partied our underage
asses off. We would have been laughing
hysterically as we asked him to
email us pics of his "senior staff member" while
we pounded down cheap
beer. Then, we would have posted the whole
thing on My Space.
But that's just me. I was a rebel, unimpressed
with authority figures,
whose only goal in life was a good time.
Not everyone was like me. I
can see how some of the Hitler Youth from the
GOP base, kids whose idea
of fun is a signing a virginity pledge with their
parents, could really
get messed up by someone like Foley. Weird
as they are, those kids
deserve our protection.
Which brings me to my larger point. If we
are going to get serious
about protecting our kids, we are going to have
to figure out a way to
keep them away from registered Republicans.
Many of these registered
Republicans live among us, blending into our
communities, just waiting
to strike. I think we need some form of
notification system. We can't
keep our kids safe from registered Republicans
if we don't know where
they are. So, toward that end, I offer
the following list, which can
serve as a starting point for a national Republican
registration
system. Because we have to put the kids
first.
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned
from Congress after
"sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him
flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative
Washington Times
newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from
a 13-year old girl on the internet.
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition
Lou Beres confessed to
molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was
arrested on suspicion of
soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd
has repeatedly won elections for
Denton County, Texas, constable.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest
to fondling a
10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years
probation.
Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested
for having sex with a
5-year old boy.
Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall
pleaded guilty to molesting two girls
under the age of 14, one of them the daughter
of an associate in the petition business.
Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano was
arrested for sexually
molesting a 14-year-old girl.
Republican teacher and former city councilman
John Collins pleaded
guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old
girls.
Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a
37-year sentence in
federal prison for sexually abusing 8-and 10-year
old girls.
Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing
child
pornography over the internet.
Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges
of soliciting sex
from two 15-year old girls.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded
guilty to molesting
two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced
to 8 years in prison.
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was
sentenced to 10 years
in prison for raping his daughter between the
ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged
with molesting a
teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with
a minor.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott
Heldreth is a convicted
child rapist in Florida.
Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader
and Lutheran church
president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing
a sexual act on
an 11-year old girl he murdered.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency
pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography on his computer
and offering a bounty to
anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge
was sentenced to three
years probation for taking nude photographs of
a 15-year old girl.
Republican racist pedophile and United States
Senator Strom Thurmond
had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced
a child.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush
commended during the
2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police
after admitting to a
sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no
contest to having an
inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old
girl.
Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer
was sentenced to
six years in prison for molesting two 8-year
old girls, one of whom
appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized
child sex parties
at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized
child sex parties at the
White House during the 1980s.
Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was
found guilty of having
sex with a female minor and sentenced to one
month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was
found guilty of child
porn charges and paying two teenage girls to
pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted
on six counts of sex
crimes involving children.
Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney
pleaded guilty to
attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested
again five years
later on the same charge.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with
a female minor working as
a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader
Beverly Russell
admitted to an incestuous relationship with his
step daughter.
Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under
house arrest for
child molestation and possession of child pornography.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert
Bauman was charged
with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked
up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was
arrested for
distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl
being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican
Marty"), was
taken into custody by Florida police on four
counts of unlawful sexual
activity withan underage girl and one count of
delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was
charged with molesting
a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was
accused of having sex
with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew
his candidacy after the
allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded
a return to traditional
values, was sentenced to jail after offering
$20 to a 14-year-old boy
for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded
guilty to exposing his
genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling
was sentenced to
40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old
girl after he attempted
to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty
to six counts of
raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal
prison.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan
was sentenced to two
years probation for soliciting sex over the internet
from a 14-year old
girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged
with two counts of first
degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested
on seven felony
counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls
under the age of 16
(i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt
was found guilty of
molesting a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded
guilty to molesting a
male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged with
criminal sexual
assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted
to molesting his two
daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W.
Gardner was convicted
of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert
Barter pleaded guilty to
unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage
boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr.
pleaded no contest to
raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6 months
in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty
to possession of
child pornography on his home computer and was
sentenced to 30 months
in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado
state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired
after child pornography
was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College
graduate Robin
Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five
counts of soliciting sex
from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is
described as a "good
military man" and "church goer," was convicted
of repeatedly having sex
with an 11-year old girl and sentenced to 12
years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his
candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced
that he went swimming in
the nude with four underage girls, including
his daughter.
Republican campaign worker, police officer and
self-proclaimed reverend
Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with
two underage girls.
Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation"
Nicholas
Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and
was sentenced to six
years in prison.
Republican president of the New York City Housing
Development Corp.
Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing
child pornography on his computer.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian
groups, Richard A.
Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year
old girl. Dasen, 62,
who is married with grown children and several
grandchildren, has
allegedly told police that over the past decade
he paid more than $1
million to have sex with a large number of young
women.
Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized
the rape of
children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate
their parents into
providing information about the anti-American
insurgency.
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