The Right Responds.

David Freddoso is one of the brilliant minds over at The National Review, a magazine that back when old man Buckley was at the tiller, wasn't such an embarrassment. Below, without edits, is his response to the explosion of Village People behavior within the ranks of the most ardent family values Republicans:

Republican Repression? Not likely.
Why is it that Republicans — Craig, Mark Foley, and David Vitter — are the ones who keep getting caught in sex scandals nowadays? Yes, there are always Democrats with lurid stories — the Jim McGreeveys, Gary Harts and Barney Franks of the world (and a lot of others whose transgressions have never been proven or admitted to). But no one can deny that lately it’s been Republicans getting caught in the most peculiar and dastardly deeds.

I don't buy for a second the idea that Democrats are less "repressed." That line of thinking implies that they lack all morals and regularly "let loose." But many of them are family men too, with children and wives equally unforgiving of such behavior. Whatever their stance on public homosexuality, they would be subject to the same pressures and potential "repression" that any Republican would theoretically feel, say, to cruise in public bathrooms.

Perhaps it's just coincidence, or maybe there is a better explanation out there.

Huh? Is Freddoso saying that if you believe sex is natural and healthy and when done right, one of the joys of being human, you "lack all morals and regularly 'let loose?'"

That means, if you live by a moral code and don't run screaming naked in the street, you must be repressed? Huh? Can anyone explain this logic?

Just how repressed do you have to be to think up shit this crazy?

I mean, Dude, WTF?