Limbaugh: Dems "set Foley up"

I love the smell of GOP desperation in the morning (or at any time of day, really).

Smells like sweat and urine.

The Mark Foley sex scandal has actually driven some Republicans crazy. Exhibit A, via Media Matters, is the ranting of one Rush Limbaugh.

LIMBAUGH: I'm just thinking out loud here. What if somebody got to the page and said, you know, we want you to set Foley up. We need to do a little titillating thing here. Keep it and save it and so forth. How would you get a kid to do that? Yeah, who knows? You threaten him or pay him. There's any number of ways given the kind of people that we're dealing with and talking about here.

Now, folks, I don't want to be misunderstood here. I'm not trying to mount any kind of a defense. That's a bad word. I'm not trying to get into a defense of what Mark Foley did. Please don't misunderstand. I'm just telling you that the -- the -- the orgy and the orgasm that has been taking place in the media since Friday and with the Democrats is -- it's all coordinated, and it's all -- it's all oriented toward the election. There's no concern about the kid -- no concern about the children.

There is -- there is -- there's not even any real problem with what Foley did, as we've discussed. In their hearts and minds and their crotches, they don't have any problem with what Foley did. They've defended it over the -- over the years.

"Given the kind of people that we're dealing with," huh, Rush?

What kind of people would those be? The kind who are sexual predators of children? Or, maybe you're talking about the kind of people who protect and enable the sexual predators of children. Are those the people we're "dealing with" Rush? We have a word for those kind of people, Rush. The word is "Republican."

Oh, by the way. Name one prominent Democrat who has defended the sexual exploitation of children, Rush. I can name several prominent Republicans. Can you name one Democrat?