Foley Outing Looking More and More Like a Planned Event

WorldNetDaily has a story which indicates that the outing of Rep. Foley was a very carefully planned event by a group of activist homosexuals:

A radical activist on a mission to "out" conservative homosexual lawmakers and Capitol Hill staffers held on to information about Rep. Mark Foley's relationships with underage male pages, suggesting the story would break at the time of mid-term elections.

Blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit points to a campaign by two activists who had Foley on their "target list" of 20 people and shared the information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Foley abruptly resigned Friday as reports surfaced of inappropriate e-mails with a male page. Later, ABC News released online instant messages of more salacious exchanges. Foley has issued a statement saying he checked himself into an alcohol rehabilitation program at an undisclosed location.

In July 2004, the homosexual newspaper Washington Blade reported the two activists, Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, were "loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill" ahead of the Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would bar same-sex marriage.

Among nearly 20 names on the "target list" provided to the Blade were Foley and Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.

This is the kind of stuff that has the potential to take the wind out of the Dem sails. There wasn't much question even before this story that somebody was sitting on this information with the plan to release it at the most damaging moment, and the last day of the House session certainly accomplished that. The more this thing looks like a professional hit, the more it has the potential to backfire. Foley is still a creep, but the Dems who are screaming about this, after apparently knowing this was coming, will look just as creepy.