Senator Larry Craig (center) in "Brokeback Mountain"
Well here's a fine to-do for all those wingnuts in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land!
It's time for the Republican Party to 'ex-Foley-ate' itself again as yet another gay-hating, homophobic, social conservative is caught with his pants down - and literally in the closet.
Senator Larry Craig has not only been a vociferous opponent of the gay movement (except apparently his own gay movements) but it turns out to that he is yet another steaming hypocrite who has pandered to the vast gay-loathing base of the Republican Party.
Only like so many Republicans who have come before him (insert your own joke here) - he is revealed by his recent actions and guilty plea to be a self-loathing gay.
But what is priceless is the excuse he offered to the policeman who arrested him.
Trying to explain why he was playing footsie with the man in the next cubicle in the airport toilet - he came up with this all-time classic. So fallacious that it sounds as if it came out directly of George Bush's mouth.
"I have a wide stance"
Nope - I'm not making it up!
So I thought I should look and see what Senator Larry Craig's "wide stance" is on the topic of that most cynically named of all Karl Rove's favorite wedge issues: "Family Values"
(As all thinking people know - the term 'Family Values' is a political branding as Orwellian and meaningless as 'Moral Majority' and 'compassionate conservative'. "We favor this looney position - therefore everyone who doesn't agree with us on this topic is against the first word in the topic name. i.e. im-moral, un-compassionate, anti-family etc. etc.")
Anyway - it's one of the big planks that the wingnuts think/hope might save them next year - so they cling on to it like a drowning GOP Senator clutching at stances.
Here from his official website is Larry's 'missionary' position.
(Well - it's from a pompous screed titled: "My Philosophy, Mission, and Goals" - so it's virtually 'missionary'!)
Goal Three:
Defend and strengthen the traditional values of the American family.
Yup - playing footsie with a cute guy in the bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport should certainly strengthen your American Family.
It will be fun to see how the blogging morons of the Immoral Minority try to spin this one!
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And no surprise, when I looked up his voting record at HRC this morning, Senator Craig has voted for anti-gay measures, most recently in 2006 for the Federal Marriage Amendment. Maybe we can count on him now for YES votes on ENDA and Hate Crimes Legislation. He did resign yesterday as chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in Idaho.
In a world where sexual difference was affirmed, maybe these incidents wouldn't happen.
Rev. Debra Haffner
http://debrahaffner.blogspot.com
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and keeps on cruisin' apparently.
I supoose it would be too much to hope that the good (and apparently over-trusting) people of Idaho will have the scales fall from their eyes after this and realize that they have been "gamed" over and over by these GOP "Family Values" hucksters...
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Being a 'mo myself, I know I wouldn't touch any of them.
That's why they're so antigay. They're pissed off because they couldn't get a date.
The gentleman from Idaho, Sen 'Wide Stance.'
LOL
I suspect the spin will be that Homosexuality and and Family Values are not mutually exclusive. That the behaviour of promiscuity is wrong, but that a loving monogamous relationships between two consenting adults is what is good, and that it secures the stability of a great country.
You folks have to claim a few of this administration they can't ALL be playing for my team.
Ive been a lifelong Republican, and have to say, today's GOP is the nastiest bunch of perverts and criminals I have ever heard of... it never ends. Who's next?!!!
And for the record, I've long thought Alberto Gonzales was the biggest closeted homosexual I've ever seen. He totally acts, looks and sounds like Dumbya's bitch.
Maybe that's why he's allowed authorities at one of Texas's juvinile (male) correctional facility to get away with raping and molesting its under age inmates - even after charges were brought against them. (That's a story not even barely mentioned in the MSM.) The most ironic thing with that is, in the middle of that, Gonzo was out there touring the country talking about how he's "protecting" our children. Makes me want to vomit, he's so disgusting and two-faced.
I'm a Conservative and personally, I have no problem with gays and think they should be treated equal to everyone else. I also think that the troops should be pulled from Iraq.
But go ahead Liberals, go on believing that we all think the same and we all pull the Bush line.
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Congratulations on being a Thinking Conservative. Now try and promulgate your views within today's Republican Party... Try and influence the GOP to see reason. And when you see how they ignore you (and privately sneer about you behind your back) - then look for a place where your values might be appreciated. If you're fiscally conservative - well you know that the GOP is definitely not your party...
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