Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times takes us down Memory Lane to an incident that Alabama voters need to seriously consider.  You see, Democrats had no problem at all with one of their own congressmen who solicited sex from teenagers who worked as congressional pages.  Teenagers who were male, in point of fact, and if anything, it seems to have shielded him.   Massachusetts voters stood by Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds even after he was censured by the House in 1983 for his sexual relationship at age 36 with a 17-year-old male congressional page, as well as making sexual advances toward two other teenage pages. Far from dooming the Democratic Party, the episode barely registered at the ballot box. Democrats kept their House majority and gained Senate seats in 1984, while Studds was re-elected in his liberal Cape Cod district with 56 percent of the vote. He won re-election five more times and was ultimately named chairman of...(Read Full Post)