Reply #2: But Democrats shouldn't be the ones hitting Republicans there

[Tom Rinaldo]

Foley is a Republican self inflicted wound and we are better off not being seen in the same picture holding a gun. And the damage from this scandal, massive as it may be, is mostly already done. If there is further damage it will be from new media revelations, not new charges made by Democrats agaisnt Republicans over it.

I don't deny that Foley has hurt the Republicans badly, but I suspect Foley will mostly be off the front pages in one or two weeks, and Republicans will try to regroup what they can under their tattered tired but time tested cloak of National Security. At this point who can say, if they play it perfectly and we don't counter effectively, maybe it will save them a few seats, and those are seats that we need to win.