Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Brown County GOP Chairman Donald Fleischman has resigned his post, says a spokesperson, after being accused of enticement and fondling of an underage boy, reports the Green Bay Press-Gazette Saturday. [...] The boy was found by police in Fleischman's home on two occasions in late 2006 while being sought as a runaway from Ethan House, a home for at-risk youth. Now 17, he says he stayed with Fleischman at his house and a cabin, where he was provided with alcohol and cannabis, and regularly fondled.
Y'know, I kept getting told throughout my life that we were the party of perversity, but it's simply impossible to win that battle with the GOP. Via.
Such scandals have become so commonplace in the GOP, they're not even reasons to resign anymore.
Relatedly, this is funny.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at October 15, 2007 11:15 AMThere really needs to be a comprehensive list of all of these pervs. Maybe when I get some free time.
Posted by: Michael at October 15, 2007 02:40 PMHonestly, if someone wrote a novel in which this kind of thing happened with as much regularity, you'd think it was clunky and overwrought, wouldn't you? It's all so fucking obvious.
Yes, exactly. It's almost like the Hand of God at work.
Posted by: apostropher at October 15, 2007 10:53 PMGod's Hand seems to have an awful lot of lotion on it.
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at October 15, 2007 11:18 PMThis might turn social conservatives off from the Republican party, but doesn't so much perversion reinforce the social conservatives' view that they're right - and create an opportunity for pandering from the Dems?
Posted by: TokyoTom at October 16, 2007 02:40 AMI honestly don't know what it means in electoral terms. I'm just surprised by the numbing, metronomic way these stories keep popping up.
Posted by: apostropher at October 16, 2007 02:56 AMIt's like people's psychologies and repressions really are *that* simple.
Humbling.
Posted by: bitchphd at October 16, 2007 06:15 PMAre there stories like this about Democrats that appear in the Republogosphere but not elsewhere?
I must presume there are.
Posted by: Cryptic Ned at October 16, 2007 08:53 PMYou'd think so, but I haven't seen any evidence of it. Best I can figure, pedophiles and bathroom cruisers just naturally gravitate toward the Republican Party.
Posted by: apostropher at October 17, 2007 10:01 AMThere MUST be some inherent connection between Repressed, Repressive, and Republican. Perhaps if they would just EMBRACE their pedophilia and bathroom cruisery, then they could be Democrats.
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at October 20, 2007 10:33 PM