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Conservatives DUMP Senator Larry Craig, for sticking fingers under a bathroom stall wall.

Posted on 08/30/2007 7:50:09 PM PDT by pacificus

I read the transcript of the Larry Graig interview with the Minnesota police.

I don't like what I'm hearing from other conservatives. The liberals see a cheap Senate seat and you want to give it to them because a guy moved two fingers under the stall wall in an airport bathroom.

If they had the guy on tape asking for sex, paying for sex, or photographed in the act, or any other physical proof, then I would say that looks very very bad and he should go.

But that is not the case.

This is very lame, and those of you who have never had a disagreement with a law enforecement officer should hope that a cop never accuses you of something. Because by your own action, your professional career, and or political career, should be forit, merely on the word of the officer with no physical proof or corroborating evidence.

Those of you who pass judgement, on Larry Craig, merely on the heresay and liberal spin that has been run in the press, should be ashamed.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Idaho; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 110th; gloryhole; larrycraig; polesmoker; vanity
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To: pacificus
After reading the transcript and listening to the tape of the Senator I'm amazed that a powerful man who has spent years writing and passing laws would put up with such laughable antics from the police. Tapping feet?

I thought the Martha Stewart thing was nuts. The Scooter Libby case was insane and the Duke case was just off the charts. But this is simply weird.

241 posted on 08/30/2007 9:24:19 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Al Gore is Soylent Green!)
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To: P-Marlowe

He did not take a dump
because he wanted another queer to hump...


242 posted on 08/30/2007 9:24:52 PM PDT by I slam Islam
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To: Soul Seeker
Oh, NOW the cop is crooked? And you have evidence

I didn't say that. And you don't have evidence that the Senator is crooked.

I said people are knee-jerking by automatically taking the cop's word for it and assuming that the Senator is crooked.

243 posted on 08/30/2007 9:24:57 PM PDT by what's up
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To: keepitreal

Okay, that’s plausible...


244 posted on 08/30/2007 9:25:41 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: Perdogg
The good people of Idaho will resolve this issue.

You're right about that. You're wrong about the Republicans dumping their own solely on the basis of the liberal media. Craig is being dumped because he ain't going to garner much support from "the good people of Idaho" in places like Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry.

245 posted on 08/30/2007 9:26:01 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: keepitreal
I knew that was said. But you claimed something different was said and I wanted your citation.

I explained that in post #231:

"What do you think about that?" is essentially the same as "Do you know who I am?".

I initially read "What do you think about that?" in an early story (like the one referenced) and remembered it wrong as "Do you know who I am?"

Do you claim there is a material difference in the intent of these two questions?!

246 posted on 08/30/2007 9:26:50 PM PDT by Swordfished
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To: Bobibutu
this game for days now

2 days. Ever since it came out. And every since the bigger story of Clinton's corrupt money has been wiped out of the news.

247 posted on 08/30/2007 9:26:51 PM PDT by what's up
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To: isthisnickcool

And on Larry King right now someone is gleefully stating that this is so stressful it might cause him to commit suicide. Gotta love the media.


248 posted on 08/30/2007 9:27:23 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: Bobibutu

More likely a Log Cabin type.


249 posted on 08/30/2007 9:27:52 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: BillyBoy
He should NOT be forced to resign his seat prior to Jan. 2009 unless it is PROVEN that he lied and covered up criminal sexual actions.

You are exactly right.

250 posted on 08/30/2007 9:28:03 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Bainbridge

In the absence of an accepted moral standard he is okay with ANYTHING


251 posted on 08/30/2007 9:28:19 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: what's up

Since he mailed the guilty forms in he may have a out from a legal standpoint.


252 posted on 08/30/2007 9:28:45 PM PDT by navysealdad
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To: what's up

Oh gee, I’m sorry, I said seduced instead of solicited. Here’s the transcipt.

DK: All right. I, I know I can bring you to jail, but that’s not my goal here, okay? (inaudible)

LC: Don’t do that. You You

DK: I’m not going to bring you to jail

LC: You solicited me.

So, I’ll ask you again - How did Larry know just from homo feet signals that he was being solicited? Dude, game over. Give it up.


253 posted on 08/30/2007 9:29:16 PM PDT by KingKongCobra
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To: what's up
And you don't have evidence that the Senator is crooked.

He pled guilty - QED.

254 posted on 08/30/2007 9:29:19 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: Swordfished

So I am supposed to guess what was said? I asked for your citation. You sounded like you were quoting verbatim since you place quotation marks around the statement, so I wanted to know where you got it from.

I do believe that accurate quotes should be used when convicting a man.


255 posted on 08/30/2007 9:30:48 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: pissant
>> No. He needs to get his butt out so the GOP guv can pick someone NOW. <<

Suppose the GOP guv picks a RINO or another open-borders type to "replace" him? Then we're stuck with an even worse incumbent. We have primary elections in this country for a reason. Idaho Republican voters have the right to make that choice. There's no reason to create an artificial vacancy when none exists. The Guv can pick whoever he wants provided Craig falls into a coma, dies or is sent to prison. Until then, screw him.

The idea that Craig should resign when a PROVEN crook like William Jefferson is allowed to serve out HIS term is the biggest joke I've ever heard. Craig should call the Dems on their hypocrisy and announce he will resign the moment Jefferson does. I won't hold my breathe waiting for them to take him on it.

What next, we make every GOP Senator suspected of having perverted sex lives resign as well?

256 posted on 08/30/2007 9:30:54 PM PDT by BillyBoy (FACT: Governors win. Senators DON'T. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I predict that more skeletons will come out of the closet in the days to come. Possibly more “stall-buddies” of his will go public.


257 posted on 08/30/2007 9:31:38 PM PDT by I slam Islam
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Exactly. When have you ever seen a Senator plead guilty to anything? Or even a Congressman?

I mean, they're nearly ALL lawyers.

258 posted on 08/30/2007 9:32:15 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: KingKongCobra

Seduced and solicited are so very close in meaning.

Accuracy in quotations is important.


259 posted on 08/30/2007 9:32:43 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: nuconvert
There’s a reason that not a single senator has stood up for him. They know a lot more about him than any of us do.

This is the most insightful comment on this thread so far.

No one who has spent any amount of time on Capitol Hill could have been surprised at the allegations against Craig ... only at his recklessness in engaging in conduct that confirms rumors he knows have been threatening his career for decades.

Ask yourself this: when a guy has been rumored to be gay and to have previously engaged in gay sex in a public men's room, what are the chances that an officer's allegations of solicitation against him are false? Assume, of course, that the officer has no idea of the individual's identity or past history.

260 posted on 08/30/2007 9:33:49 PM PDT by freespirited (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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