Posted on 08/28/2007 10:25:27 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Senator Larry Craig has become our nation’s latest congressional joke. The headlines about “Craig’s List”, “His own Private Idaho”, “Brokeback Bathroom” and terror in the toilets are worth a laugh. Yet, even as funny as these headlines are at first glance, something else here doesn’t make me want to laugh.
The upshot of all this bathroom humor will ultimately be that Senator Craig was just another one of those crazy family values types that talks a good game in public and then gets freaky in the c**p stall. Postmodern “moralists” like Larry Flynt will extrapolate from there. The talking point takeaway will read that people who “preach old fashioned morality” are just hypocrites and should go put a sock in it. Because Larry Craig’s disgusting behavior gives the Penthouse Posse ammunition to impugn the decency of everyone attempting to improve the quality of America’s increasingly jaded and coarsening culture, he has become a traitor to the cause of basic decency and needs to resign or be primaried.
Senator Craig received vocal support from pro-life and pro-family groups. These people, such as The Idaho Values Alliance, have praised legislative votes taken by Larry Craig. Because Craig couldn’t rise above the absolute lowest common denominator of respectable behavior, these people now come in for grossly unjustified ridicule.
Ridicule of Larry Craig will now become a proxy for ridicule of anyone attempting to use moral suasion to improve the level of American society. Anyone seeking to stem the barbarism of moral relativity will be viewed as just another biblethumper/hypocrite. Sticking up for common decency now gets you associated with the perverted Larry Craig.
Sometimes moralists annoy me as well. This usually happens any time they accuse Little Old Me of being immoral. I understand why these types get under so many people’s skins. That doesn’t stop the quest for decent public behavior from being worthy.
Morality enforced by shame or persuasion is vastly superior to the alternative. Once all the “big-mouths” and “know-it-alls” that spout morality are demonized, once we derisively dismiss the “family values crowd” as just a bunch of hypocrites lusting for “Craig’s Crusty Crank”, we’re left with one alternative to modify the behavior of individuals in our society. That alternative is violence.
This is something to keep in mind as we snicker at the deplorable ethical example set by Senator Craig. It boils down to one fundamental question. Does Senator Craig’s status as a deeply flawed messenger imply that asking for better societal morals is flawed?
If we keep answering affirmatively to that, I want the next plane out of here. Morality does get reestablished in the end and it’s usually by the likes of Savonarola or Oliver Cromwell. I’ll take my disappointment with the hypocritical “Terror of The Toilets” over that dystopia any day.
When a cop commmits a crime, do we reduce all cops to criminals?
While I understand the thrust of the arguments about Craig that will be made, the bottom line is that he could reject any of the homosexual agenda while being engaged in homosexual acts.
I don’t know this guy. Its sad that we now have to say “Despite this guy....”
“we’re not going to tolerate this in the Republican Party”.
Agreed. That type of behavior is tolerated in the dim party but not the GOP, hey craig, don’t let the screen door hit you in the @ss.
if they do demand his resignation, some of the social moderates who would vote republican might be turned off.
it's politics, not morality. just playing the game.
And it is becoming increasingly illegal to do that. On the flip side, the force of government is actually on the side of immorality in many cases.
Craig's hypocrisy will show in his willingness to be judged by the same standards he advocated. It isn't as much about whether he himself measured up. A person who admits the rightness of the standard and is sorry for his failures is not so much a hypocrite as a fool. He foolishly did what he knew was wrong. The hypocrite is the guy who denies his own misdeeds. So time will tell.
What I can't quit thinking about is how unsafe the public restrooms are these days. Yuck!
Oh cut the guy a break, he was just looking for a “Toilet Tissue Dispensor”
dispensor = dispenser
Washington D.C. is a smelly place.. Which smells worse?..
Where is animal control?.. They must've have given up after Sandy Berger... the 2 border guards.. and George Jefferson with 100 grand in his freezer.. and Marion Beery smoking crack ..
Hoo WEE.. What a latrine.. Call me for the revolution..
As opposed to Sen Difi forced from her chair for giving no-bid contracts to family members the press says nothing about?
More like-Hey Craig don’t let the “back door” hit you in the ass.
“Yes, that worked so well and turned out so well with Mark Foley.”
We didn’t do that with Foley. We (the party and establishment) basically slapped his hand, then defended him, and it came back to bite us in 2006. Iraq didn’t kill the GOP in 06, perception of corruption did.
Nobody’s knickers were in a twist when it was discovered that Barney Frank’s significant rectum was running a male prostitution ring in Barney’s basement. At least no one on the left.
The left hates the stigma and true sin that homosexuality (and any sex outside of marriage is), and they hate when people stand for decentcy and against their immorality (is that condemning ANYONE: No, I am sure everyone has their own hidden sins they don’t want anyone knowing about), but it does point out a standard: a standard that says there are certain morals that should be followed; and homosexuality is not one of them, in-fact it is harmful, and immoral-spiritually harmful as well..
Creepy perverts will be everywhere there are human beings.
I used to think that the Left elevated hypocrisy to the worst crime in order to have one last standard of right and wrong. However, since Al Gore never got called on his energy sucking mansion while preaching energy conservation, I think the Left uses the hypocrisy card like they use the race card—completely disingenuously.
The Left has shown itself to be entirely self-serving with no moral standard whatsoever. They will lie, cheat, and steal with virtually zero oversight. They own the media, the courts, and the schools and so they literally get away with murder, bribery, corruption, and pretty much every moral vice that exists. So how does a immoral degenerate liar get any credence when he screams HYPOCRISY to a standard he never wants to follow? Because we react to it. We are stooges to the media who they can pull strings to get a reaction.
If the Democrats have abandoned civility in the political game, then we should too. They put their stooges in courts? Let’s put our own. They start 300 investigations of republicans hoping something sticks? They should get what’s coming to them. They call Republican senators hypocrites for family values? Let’s show them as hypocrites on the environmentalist front. If they are tree huggers, call them anti-science. Did they accept campaign contributions from big business? Call them pro-big business. Call them on where they stand and discredit them to their own constituency. The Democrats do that enough already. It’s time we do it too.
Yup.
How do we know that the Queer, Senator Larry Craig has not been blackmailed into voting for Bills that furthered the socialist cause or helped Communism?
I think the guy needs a lie detector test.
#####If they do demand his resignation, some of the social moderates who would vote republican might be turned off#####
You mean crusing for male on male sex in public restrooms is now “moderate”? We’ve defined deviancy down to the point that it’s considered radical and extreme to oppose such disgusting conduct?
Craig needs to resign and seek help for his perversion. Any conservative who says he should stay in office because he votes pro-life and pro-family is being a hypocrite.
We can’t be hypocritical on these issues. I know that liberals are hypocrites all the time, and they get away with it. Feminists can rage against sexual abuse of women, then turn right around and defend a serial misogynist such as Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy, and they’re given a pass by the press.
But we can’t get away with such hypocrisy, and really we shouldn’t want to. If we keep Craig in office just to play some kind of political game, all we’ll accomplish is to normalize perverted behavior in public restrooms and every future attempt to oppose the homosexual agenda will suffer because, after all, one of our guys cruises for anal sodomy.
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