Posted on 08/29/2007 4:33:58 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
On Monday, August 27, news services broke the story that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, pleaded guilty in early August to lewd conduct in an airport restroom...
Craig is hardly the only member of the Senate with a propensity for dropping his pants at inopportune moments...
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has allegedly sexually harrased or abused at least 10 women. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., reportedly engaged in a sexual affair with an engagd lobbyist, Ron Dotzauer,then gave him a personal loan to help him with his subsequent divorce and threw cash his way...
Gerry Studds (re-elected six times after having sex with a male congressional page), Barney Frank (re-elected eight times after his gay lover ran a male escort ring out of his apartment), Mel Reynolds (re-elected despite facing an indictment for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old campaign worker), Sen. Charles Robb (re-elected despite credible sex scandal allegations), and Gus Savage (re-elected despite fondling a Peace Corps volunteer).
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You used a straw man by saying “so he isn’t really a Republican Senator?”
I said he does not represent the Republican PARTY. I did not say he wasn’t a Republican. err, Duh. LOL!
If Craig became a Democrat the cries of “hypocrite” would change to “welcome home.”
The only difference is that the Dem Party doesn’t seem to even attempt to try and have anything resembling decency and decent values.
He actually has a 93 lifetime rating from the ACU which is quite high.
But lately, if I am not mistaken, he voted for the Shamnesty bill.
I would say that the Dems, though, seem to be trying to take the U.S. on the track to no Christian values whatsoever.
Why don’t he just switch to the Democrat Party-— then it would all be OK (With Frank and Studds they could be a threesome
Ted Kennedy, (D-Mass), elected countless times after murdering a young campaign worker in a drunken auto accident then leaving the scene and falsifying evidence.
Yes, of course but I didn’t miss the point. The republicans did NOTHING to make those 3 resign, yet they are calling for Craig to resign. If it’s inappropriate to have lying perverted crooks in Congress, why are the republicans so “noble” as to inflict the democrat ones upon us? John McCain has no right to call on Craig to resign just because he’s a republican. These people have no concern for the public good, it is all inside baseball to them.
nothing wrong with holding folks accountable for their actions, especially if their actions reflect poorly on others
Yes, they should have.
Oh, please. I know what I’m talking about. I was the poster of two of the original Larry Craig threads and to my misfortune my cachet is full of proof of these sad folks.
Bingo. But John McCain has no problem working with Ted K. So then is the Craig resignation call truly for the public good?
OK. I’m not going to defend what Craig did. But he didn’t use his power to take advantage of underlings in his office or in his employ. He also didn’t sic thugs on people who accused him of the misdeeds and threaten their pets, or families, or lives. He didn’t steal $ from his constituents to pay for his trysts. He didn’t do this in the senate cloakroom. As far as I know his behavior was consensual. Not even close to what the democrats have actually DONE. Even Barney Frank has defended him. And he called Clinton “Wepwehensible”
I agree. Plus, I fully believe that it is going to get worse before (or even "IF") it ever gets better. I am convinced that more in both parties are going to "come out" of whatever closet they're in. In the liberal-socialist-elite-left believe it's hip to be deviant and corrupt. They thumb their nose at the public. The other side has lost most of it's true conservative roots, it's character and it's integrity, so they will start to embrace whatever deviancy they're into.
The formerly conservative "Red" states are now voting in "Blue" people. In my state Virginia: Jim Web. In Pennsylvania: Bob Casey. Missouri: McCaskill. The list goes on. These are just states who voted out true conservatives.
“And one need not be a Christian to view a man soliciting sex in a public bathroom as repugnant.
I am not familiar with his voting record, is he a RINO?
Political affiliations aside, he is unfit to serve as a US Senator.
And so is Kennedy, Clinton, Murtha, Kerry etc.”
It’s sad that common sense posts like this are the minority. A repugnant act is repugnant regardless of party, and seeing people trying to make partisan excuses for it is sickening. That’s what the Clintonistas did back in the day. I don’t like seeing a lot of whining about how Barney Frank is still in Congress after what he did, when all Craig did was bla bla bla... Thank goodness the Republican party has enough morality to DO SOMETHING about their problems instead of ignoring them. It’s what seperates us from the Democrats, and is a very great asset.
In a way I am glad this came out now. Because why didn’t this come out when it happened? Was somebody blackmailing Sen. Craig? Was someone in the news media sitting on this story, to bring it out during next year’s election, to make Larry Craig the Mark Foley of 2008?
I’ll tell ya, I never thought I would hear so much about the “wide stance” of a man in a public restroom. I never thought I would hear news reports of differing stances used to take care of nature’s calls. Geez............
Public figures should not be soliciting homosexual sex in men’s rooms. All of the possible things that can result are negative.
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