Don't Let Questionable Scandals Divert Your Attention This Season

The FBI seems to be busy this political season investigating Republicans for one reason or another. In most if not all cases there is perhaps a possibility of a crime having been committed. Jeanne Piro who is being investigated for wiretapping her own property. If she committed a crime then it a foolish law the forbid you from taping your own property. That is assuming she actually had her property bugged and didn’t just mention it as a possibility.

Then there is Curt Weldon who is accused of getting lucrative contracts for his lobbyist daughter, like there is not a reason why so many lobbyist are friends, associates, and family of the legislators and any smart business person wouldn’t find the best connected one to pay to lobby for them

Now there is Rep. Bob Beauprez who is running for the Colorado Governor and is accused of hacking in the federal criminal database. He says he heard the so called hacked information from an informant which is likely since there were people involved from the apprehension of an illegal alien through the governments failure to deport and him being picked up on suspicion of sexually assaulting a minor in California. I suspicion the leaker is probably someone in law enforcement that favors Bob Beauprez. The article did not say that such a person would have been breaking the law unless they used information from the criminal data base.

The Foley Scandal is different but has related issue as a mountain is created out of a molehill for political reasons. Foley resigned and should have been encouraged not to run for reelection earlier in the year. He was disciplined for the flirting that was known about and from all accounts that was less serious than the bombshell that was dropped at a convenient time politically. There is investigation in Congress over how the situation was handled. I believe holding anyone but Foley accountable for his actions at this time is foolish.

I urge people to vote on the issues and by the records of the candidates and not by the questionable scandals that are just meant to warp your judgment and vote before you count the cost. Most Democrats are worse or equal to their Republican opponents with a few exceptions such as Bob Casey, Jr. a pro lifer who is running for Senator in Pennsylvania though the immigration issue may change my mind. When they are equal I will vote Democrat so that the next time around the Republicans may give me a better candidate. Senator Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island is one Republican I would vote against. Some favor Independent Senator Lieberman of Connecticut because of his pro Iraq war stance but that is an candidate I am undecided on as I do not want the cultural conservative idea to be minimized over the Iraq war situation. Still a major defeat for the far left may weaken them and possibly allow the cultural conservative ideology to gain some momentum in that state.

I do know this and that is that I want the pro life and strong on the border candidates in both the House and the Senate to stay in power while I want to weaken those who are opposed to those ideas. I would also support someone who supported one of those ideas over an opponent who supported neither.

My source is article about the Bob Beauprez scandal.