Give it up. He plead guilty.
Perhaps he shouldn’t have...now he wants to get a good lawyer and fight it? All the while the media will be reporting every titillating aspect of the accusations. No, he weighed that option and decided to take the chance that the media’s wouldn’t pick up on a misdemeanor in another state.
Think about it. You’re a straight, married, innocent guy and suddenly this cop is charging you with (flimsy) charges of public lewdness and soliciting gay sex. You hold a job where the gay lobby would love nothing more than to “out” you (they’ve been trying for years). AND YOU PLEAD GUILTY?! You wouldn’t even fight the charges? Yeah, right. You’d do everything in your power to clear your name.
I don’t know what he wants to do now. Too late to get a lawyer I suppose. If he were innocent, he probably regrets pleading guilty now. He certainly wishes this never saw the light of day.
Not everyone does everything in their power to fight The Man. People pay fines and cop pleas all the time to make things go away. When it is your word against the cop, there is a good chance you will lose. Ever been to traffic court when you were not guilty?
Please assume for a moment that Craig was not guilty. He is a Senator coming up on an election year. Some guy posted that you had gay sex with him and though the newspapers couldn’t find any evidence, the suspicion is still out there. Faced with a court battle versus what he might have seen as a possibility of getting away with some misdemeanor without anyone finding out he made a choice. Not an unreasonable choice in my opinion.
If he chose to fight this in court, he might have won the battle but the result of the war might have been the same: He would have become a liability to the GOP in an election year and people would demand he resign. A no win situation. Hardball politics at its worst.