Saturday, 7 October 2006
Double Standards for Democrats
Last week, Lucas was meeting with the editorial board of the Kentucky post when he made the following statement about U.S. Rep. Mark Foley.
"Those folks (in leadership) had plenty of warning about what was going on," Lucas told the paper. "It was common knowledge that Foley was a gay man. To me, when people in positions of leadership saw things around the edges, that should've raised red flags," he said.
First off, this is a really ignorant comment. Anyone running for office should know better than to make comments like that. But imagine the outrage and the scope and power of this story if a Republican uttered those words. I can see the story lines right now. There would be demonstrations and every famous left wing activist would be on television denouncing his comments and asking for his resignation. We would have endless stories on the insensitivity of Republicans. Blah blah blah.
So where is the outrage from the hyper sensitive left wing?
"We have no plans to keep this story alive," Fairness Alliance communications director Misty York said in an e-mail yesterday. "It would be up to the candidates themselves to direct the public conversation."
Wow, the silence is deafening!
See the real reason this isn't a story is because Lucas is a Democrat. And we don't want to hurt the Democrat's chances of winning in the fall. The double standard of the MSM and liberal activists (is there a difference?) in their treatment of Democrats and Republicans borders on the surreal sometimes. This is one of those cases.
