The reason Republicans should be helped, not hurt, by recent scandals such as the Mark Foley mess is as follows:
When Republican congressman Mark Foley was found to have written very inappropriate messages to a house page, he resigned immediately. On the other hand, when Democrats like Gerry Studds or Bill Clinton were caught abusing their power to actually have sex with young staff members, their party tells us to mind our own business!
So the question voters need to ask themselves is, which party should be elected – the one that takes moral and ethical issues seriously or the one that dismisses them as no big deal?
This biggest issue in this election seems to be the Iraq war. Democrats are trying to make this election a referendum on the war. This is not a presidential election. We are electing Senators and Congressmen. It should be remembered, therefore, that it was a Democrat-controlled Senate under the leadership of Tom Daschle that authorized the President to go to war in Iraq.
So, vote against the Iraq war – elect a Republican led Congress!
It should be seriously considered that the violence over the past month, that is pointed to for a reason to vote out Republicans, has been orchestrated in an effort to influence politics in the US – to influence us to vote for the party that is soft on terrorists. So how could anyone vote for the party that is being supported, violently, by terrorists?