Craig's in Closet, Republicans in the Dark
Just as it's never the heat, it's the humidity, it's rarely the charge itself, but the hypocrisy it reveals that does a politician in.
If Senator Larry Craig weren't a supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act, which seeks to guard the institution against people like himself, he might survive his guilty plea to disorderly conduct in a toilet at the Minneapolis airport.
At a press conference yesterday, a day after his plea became public, Craig denied everything. With his wife at his side, he defiantly said it was all a terrible misunderstanding, his plea the result of having endured a witch hunt by a local newspaper. He also said he would keep to his timetable to announce his re-election plans in the fall. It's hard to see how he hangs on. After all, his party hates people like him.
In its way, Craig's situation isn't only an instance of hypocrisy but tragedy, much more so than the case of former Representative Mark Foley, a Florida Republican who pursued the friendship of underage congressional pages, which is reprehensible and a crime if acted on.
Being homosexual isn't a crime. If the three-term Idaho senator didn't belong to a political party that makes homosexuality an evil to be stamped out, or a matter to be discriminated against, he might not have found himself in a public toilet trolling for a moment of human contact.
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DeVore,
Don't worry--there's no trap for the innocent--it's a very old game and all the players know the rules.
He plead guilty because he got caught and he panicked.
That he would engage in the behavior knowing he was being investigated is evidence of compulsion--tragic for him, but more so for all he discriminates against with the power of the senate.
The party of family values just continues on its merry,hypocritical and twisted way....
I think it is a left wing conspiracy. Clearly cute gay liberals are enticing Republicans to have sex over and over and over again. It's entrapment, really. Craig tells us "he's not gay" as if he has no culpability at all.
it is a vast left wing conspiracy. craig and foley and the like are closet deomcrats who set upon destroying the republican party from within. first they promote a ridiculous agenda that no sensible american would accept( anti flag burning and anti gay marriage amendments for example) then when that doesn't work they keep us involved in a hopeless and futile war. Finally, when their devious plans have failed they engage in the moral equivalent of suicide bombing by destroying their careers just to bring shame to the republican party.but it won't work. you can figure out why
What a great post! And, one that must be sarcastic because the idea that political terrorists, long hidden in the GOP, destroying their own lives in order to bruise the GOP image is too hilarious to take seriously. What a great comedy sketch for Saturday Night Live or Mad TV!!!
There could be an upside for Lewd Larry and the $20 bathroom stall romance Republican in Florida, they could start the toilet stall republicans. This could be a grand success- repugs polling numbers are in the crapper.
Maybe he's a secret alcoholic. Maybe he has a wide stance while praying. Maybe he was undercover for the Senate and trying to catch pervs in public toilets. Maybe public toilets cause him to have flashbacks to 1981. What excuse will he use? My mind boggles at the possibilities.
Or, maybe he's just another sad Republican man who cloaks himself in righteousness while leading a seriously hypocritical life. Me thinks he doth protest a bit too much.
If the guy didn't plead guilty and go through such a song and dance denial, I would be leary of a conviction over foot tapping. Is there a list of these 'secret codes' so that one might avoid inadvertantly hailing a ride? It's like a Dick Van Dyke-at-the-auction routine where every motion is a bid up.
A conviction for foot tapping would certainly look flimsy, but the guilty plea gets to the crux of why I think him unfit to be a US Senator.
No, I am not concerned about his sexual orientation, either stated or acted out. No, I don't care about any hypocrisy on LBGT issues.
What should disqualify him from being a Senator is entering a guilty plea in a criminal matter without having consulted a lawyer when one has no legal training. Talk about a lack of judgment and wisdom.
Hmm. Since his guilty plea implies a lack of judgement, doesn't his hypocrisy on LBGT issues also imply that he would be all too willing to do the same on issues that do concern you? You're not concerned that people will write laws that exempt themselves? Congress has done that.
"After all, his party hates people like him."
His party is FULL of people like him.
and they probably all hate themselves.
GOP = GEE OH PEE
GOP = GULP OLD PEE
GOP = GRUNGY OUTHOUSE PEDERASTS
GOP = GRUBBY OUTHOUSE PERVERTS
GOP = GETTING OBLITERATED POLITICALLY
GOP = GETTING OBSOLETE POLITICALLY
GOP = GETTING OUSTED (FROM) POWER
GOP = GOBBLING OUTHOUSE PECKERS
GOP = GOBBLING ODD PECKERS
GOP = GOBBLING ODIUS PECKERS
GOP = GRANDLY OFFENSIVE PRICKS
GOP = GOT OUTHOUSE PRICK?
GOP = GOT OILY PALMS?
ETC ETC ETC
What makes anyone think that a hateful bigot like our "NOT GAY" Senator from potato land would want "a moment of human contact." I suggest he must first be human. He's simply one more hateful bigot who got caught being what some might think is a dangerous thing to be---a republican!!!
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