ARE ALL REPUBLICANS PERVERTS AND RAPISTS? NO, JUST THE ONES WHO GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS-- AND THEY START EARLY. YOUNG REPUBLICAN PLEADS GUILTY

Old folks, hide your wallets; Mothers, hide your daughters-- the GOP is lurking... everywhere

The last couple of weeks might not have been remarkable in terms of Republican mental illness manifesting itself in sexual aggression and perversion-- but more of it was exposed than normally comes to light. Louisiana Senator David Vitters (Giuliani's man in the South) it turns out, was preaching hatred towards Democrats for not being as committed to "Family Values" as much as he was while he was carrying on with a plethora of prostitutes for at least a decade and seems to be addicted to a diaper fetish. While Florida Rep. (and McCain election co-chair) Bob Allen was proposing a draconian Sexual Predator Elimination Act-- which would send sexual predators to prison for life-- he was prowling public toilets and asking men if he could pay them to perform fellatio on them. North Carolina Rep. David Almond sexually assaulted a legislative aide in the state Capitol and was forced to resign by his fellow Republicans when the cover-up didn't work. And one of NYC's only elected Republicans, Queens City Councilman Dennis Gallagher, was accused by a woman he picked up in a bar of raping her.

From hysterically homophobic Idaho Senator Larry Craig haunting the men's stall in Union Station's public restrooms to child predator Florida Congressman Mark Foley, there seems to be a definite connection between aggressively and angrily waving the flag of family values and attacking ones opponents for not being "pro-family" enough and being a deranged pervert. There are allegations of rank hypocrisy against anti-sex stalwarts/closet cases like Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Lindsey Graham, Congressman Patrick McHenry, Ohio GOP political boss Alex Arshinkoff, etc.

And now it looks like the GOP is training their legions of sex criminals earlier than anyone feared. This morning's Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans raped a college student at the national Young Republicans convention in Cleveland's Warehouse District. With role models like Vitter, Arshinkoff, McConnell, Allen, et al, what can you expect. Michael Flory wanted to be a Republican player. So he played like the big shot respected, admired Republicans.

Didn't know any better? He's an attorney. He did manage to plea bargain his rape down to "sexual battery" though.

The teary-eyed college student he overpowered in a downtown hotel room gasped and dabbed her eyes as Flory replied to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Peter Corrigan's question, "Are you indeed guilty?"

"Sure - yeah," Flory said.

Michael Flory is was a rising star in the GOP. In 1992, when he was just 18 he gave a televised speech to the Republican National Convention in the Houston Astrodome. "Assistant County Prosecutor Carol Skutnik said Flory's lawyers, Henry Hilow and Bill McGinty, surprised her with a plea offer as trial witnesses from several states were arriving to testify. The plea bargain, she said, doesn't include any suggestion of leniency, and the state will seek incarceration. She also said she hopes to present evidence of several 'other incidents of sexual misconduct' in which Flory took advantage of vulnerable young women." This particular young woman had passed out after a typical Young Republican drunken party after the convention and when he thought she was sleeping, according to Skutnik, Flory "violently forced several sex acts upon her."

What even makes this more disgusting-- and more Republican-- is that Flory and his GOP political supporters tried silencing her by smearing her reputation in retaliation for her accusation that Floy had raped her. "People were using every opportunity to try to trash her, on Web sites or whatever," the prosecutor said. "He's been running around telling everybody what a piece of trash she is, so she was very happy to see him plead guilty."

Flory was appointed as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging and his law practice specialized in Elder Law and Estate Planning, one of the types of law where unethical lawyers are able to take advantage of seniors and steal their money and property. Like Bob Allen, Flory is a McCain supporter. Needless to say, until today's surprise guilty plea, Flory denied everything-- like Republican always do when they're caught. "These charges are baseless and without merit, and I look forward to the opportunity to clear my name. As an officer of the court, I am confident the legal system can work, and will work, to vindicate me."


UPDATE: REPUBLICANS NO LONGER WELCOME AT MYSPACE

Thousands and thousands of Republican sex offenders and other perps have been kicked off MySpace according to the Christian Post. MySpace refuses to confirm or deny that Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Larry Craig (R-ID), Bob Allen (R-FL), Mark Foley (R-FL), David Almond (R-NC), Ed Schrock (R-VA), James McCrery (R-LA), Alex Arshinkoff (R-OH), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Barrasso (R-WY), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), David Diapers Vitter (R-LA), Dennis Gallagher (R-NY), Michael Flory (R-MI), Ted Klaudt (R-SD), or dozens of other known GOP sexual predators were among the people whose pages were taken down.


UPDATE: COLLEGE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA REPORT NO RAPES

Today Howard Dean joined Democratic presidential hopefuls Clinton, Edwards and Obama in addressing the 47th annual College Democrats of America convention in Columbia, SC. I once went to one of those. Unlike the GOP ones, there are never rapes at the Democratic ones. Democrats are different from Republicans in that way.