You summed it up, CY. The same standards are 180 degrees different when you are a member of the opposition, according to Nancy Pelosi.

"Courage" -- Dan Rather

Awww, poor little republicans. Never get treated fairly, do ya?

IF Dubya had been caught out in public with a hamster up his rectum, I'll bet the headline would be this: "George W. Bush, Forty-Third President of the United States, Arrested In Gay Bar Brawl; Found To Have Hamster Up His Ass."

The World Of If is a wonderful world, indeed.

Freaky! You and I think alike.... my headline was "Only US Congressman Who Admitted to Statutory Rape Dies Suddenly."

Heh.

No doubt he should be ashamed, but whether he was a predator is arguable, and he didn't commit statuatory rape, because his victim was over the legal age, which in DC is 16, and in Colorado can be 12.
Instead of labeling people as liberals or republicans, it would be more productive to change the laws. But, I don't see much outrage about men porking barely legal females.

Huh huh, dzho said porking! Huh huh.

The emphasis between non statutory rape of a consenting child and sex between fully acknowledged consenting adults being considered the "Legal" part of the "barely LEGAL" age.
A unified age of acknowledged adulthood would be great but it isn't real so a line gets drawn somewhere.
So the rape wasn't statutory. Sex was still had buy a person of influence with what is considered and underage person regardless of their consent.
Wouldn't the world be great if laws that apply to bosses, parents and others in authority dealing with coercing sex from those arguably under their authority didn't apply equally to all and not just (to often) to Democratic political leaders?

Goose, gander.

A Foley by any other name or party is still a Foley.
Treat them accordingly or not at all.
Selective treatment is done for no other reason than ignorance, stupidity, cynical manipulative intent or some combination thereof.