Gay Republicans — we can't get away from them. Andrew Sullivan is in the kitchen now, drinking me wife's tea! Gaah! They're even now peeking out from inside me wife's blouse! I can't even take a bath without six or seven gay Republicans jumping in with me! Oh, God!

CBS' Gloria Borger, after Foley's former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, who is gay, claimed he warned GOP leaders about Foley: "CBS News has learned that several other top Republican staffers who handled the Foley matter are also gay. Their role in this controversy has caused a firestorm among Republican conservatives...."

Excuse me, did you just say "CBS News has learned that several other top Republican staffers who handled the Foley matter are also gay"?

Given the conundrum that is the gay Republican, one might consider that a statistically improbable phrase.

But it's also a disturbing one: a casual observation that suggests a witch-hunt.

Imagine how it would sound if other terms were substituted for "gay," and decide if this sounds like fair play? "Black," "Jewish," etc.

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council: "There's... some strong suggestions that there's a kind of network of gay staffers and congressmen that protected Foley, some of those even reaching into the speaker's office."

I'm open-minded about sexual practices, but I'm not sure I want to picture that, so long as Denny Hastert is the speaker.