Posted on 08/31/2007 2:04:37 PM PDT by freedomdefender
Timely post fd, Now, just maybe, we can take a deep breath, stop lynching Larry Craig, at least long enough to return to the traditionally more serious business of lynching Pat Buchannan
So, people laugh any time they hear the name Barney Frank, yet he’s the chairman of a powerful house committee. The best lil whorehouse attitudes are alive and well. Harrumph.
Did Craig even do anything illegal? Sleazy maybe but with the press coverage this is getting you’d think he was a mass murderer. What a shame that he has to resign so he won’t be a “distraction” or drag on the GOP. If he were a Democrat they would be celebrating him, and defending his right to stay on the job.
It is pretty obvious citizens who vote for these Democrats who should be in prison have lower standards than we do. Or dare I say it, they are less moral.
Maybe he will announce a resignation so he’ll have more time to do the things he enjoys, like travel.
I dunno but I sure got a good laugh at lunch when I said I ‘had a wide stance.’ People ridicule homosexuals. I don’t see that changing.
hmmm interesting choice of words there, pat :-)
ahhh, yes, there is the issue of timing, isn't there, as in the timing of this tempest.
this story might just be the enfeebled new-generation leftist slacker's version of Clarence Thomas's "hearings."
As you wrote, this is well said by Mr. Buchanan.
Senator Craig may be a disappointment (especially to his family, friends, and constituents), but the charge of hypocrisy strikes me as hollow. The Democrats have a difficult time condemning him for his actual behavior, since they have in the past excused far worse; so they fall back on the general accusation of hypocrisy.
That said, I think Mr. Craig is finished in politics. Republicans and conservatives tend to have higher standards for their elected officials than do Democrats and Leftists. He will probably retire from the Senate; if he doesn't, the Republican voters of Idaho will turn him out in the next primary election.
He should say I’ll resign if Ted Kennedy resigns.
Exactly right. The speed with which the GOP is running from him is shameful. Ted Kennedy killed a woman and pled guilty to some drastically reduced charge ($$$) and he remains in Congress. Meanwhile, 5 years ago the GOP governor of SD killed a motorist, resigned, and went to jail. Just remember, the Dems never apologize and never resign. The GOP, on the other hand eats their own, and even a mere accusation causes them to resign. This has go to change.
Heh heh heh.
He’ll use online travel booking websites to book flights with 4+ stopovers-—to save money, donchaknow.
What happened to tolerance for people of all sexual orientations?
Where is the liberal support for Craig (I know, don't get involved when the other political party is self imploding...)?
I think conservatives aren’t the ones to yell “hypocrite” at someone expressing a standard that they don’t always meet. I think that is the liberals tactic, because they have no principle to stand on. Part of their argument is that if the advocates of high standards can’t keep them perfectly, it is better to have low standards or no standards at all. Why use a weaselly tactic? Because directly advocating low standards will not gain a politician any support. Even a leftist instinctively supports high standards, but desperately wants to be judged by low standards. The leftist twists logic to make believe not being a hypocrite is a good thing even if your standards are so low it is unavoidable. Therefore they can cling to one high standard and pretend they are better than those “hypocrites” who actually have to have some sort of self discipline.
Conservatives, on the other hand, judge harshly on high standards and expect excellent behavior out of their leaders. Whether or not someone supports high standards in public, they will be judged on low standards in their private life. They will also be judged on advocating low standards. Conservatives simply will not put up with it anywhere it is found.
No, not every one is a hypocrite. But if said alcoholic had said all his career that he doesn't drink and has never drank. And had said alcoholic tried to use his enormous power to outlaw or criminalize alcohol use, then yes, he would be a hypocrite.
Yes, where is the gay lobby? They’ve been lobbying for years for cops to end rest room surveillance, saying it unfairly targets them.
I presume they will be with Sen Craig at his press conference tomorrow, defending him against the “fascist tactics” of the cops. Don’t hold your breath on that one.
So, Pat, it looks like it’s a lot easier to be loyal in the face of adversity when you’ve got no skin in the game.
I think it’s instructive how quickly the elites of the GOP “threw him under the bus”— We already have suspected homosexuals in the GOP that we have managed to tolerate reasonably well. Barney Frank runs a prostitution ring out of his home, and we throw out a powerful Senator accused of playing footsie.
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