Another family values Republican, Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald, is backing Jack "Off" Ryan, blaming others for Ryan's own alleged sins. This is pretty disgusting stuff. It's one thing for the family values crowd to try to jam their doctrine down our throat. It's another thing for them to make exceptions to the rule for themselves and their friends.
'I told him that it troubled me greatly that so many party leaders who had no trouble stomaching years and years of corruption and insider deals and scandals under George Ryan were now lining up to throw stones at Jack (no relation to George Ryan),' Fitzgerald said.Yeah, well, the public stoning of gays and lesbians by you and your colleagues - and your insouciance to why coercing women into sex is a bit of a problem, makes me sick, you Bible-thumping hypocrite.
'I think the public stoning of Jack Ryan is one of the most grotesque things I've seen in politics,' he said. He said he talked to Ryan on Thursday but hadn't spoken with him since then.
