Mark Foley: Still a scumbag

So Mark Foley has reportedly broken his silence on his man boy love IMing. But insists he’s not as bad a guy as everyone is making him out to be.. afterall.. the boys were 17.

from the AP:

“I’m trying to find my way back,” Foley said in an interview with The Associated Press, his first public comments on the scandal since resigning from Congress on Sept. 29, 2006.

Foley insists he did nothing illegal and never had sexual contact with teens, just inappropriate Internet conversations. Investigations by the FBI and Florida authorities ended without criminal charges.

And while he concedes his behavior was “extraordinarily stupid,” he remains somewhat unwilling to accept full public scorn.

These were 17-year-olds, just months from being men, he insists.

“There was never anywhere in those conversations where someone said, ‘Stop,’ or ‘I’m not enjoying this,’ or ‘This is inappropriate’ … but again, I’m the adult here, I’m the congressman,” Foley said. “The fact is I allowed it to happen. That’s where my responsibility lies.”

Foley had built a national reputation as an advocate for tougher penalties against child sexual predators. As co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, he helped craft a law to protect children on the Internet.

Still, he said, there was no hypocrisy.

“The work I was doing was involving young children … You know, you hear the term ‘pedophile.’ That is prepubescent,” Foley said, noting a “huge difference” from lurid chats with teens on the brink of adulthood.

“At the end of the day, they were instant messages that were extraordinarily inappropriate,” he added, breathing a heavy sigh, his eyes wandering toward the ceiling.

So yeah.. okay.. well… I’m off to the local high school to troll the parking lot for some 17 year old tail. Afterall they’re only a few months from being women right?

what a creep