Posted on 09/04/2007 5:35:49 PM PDT by tsmith130
Just reported on a news break.
First, he pleaded guilty and then says he wants to retract that decision.
Next, he resigns from the Senate and now wants to retract that decision.
Do we really want this guy voting on issues of national importance?
That’s not what I read on another thread. I’ll have to go back and look when I have time. I don’ now.
Senator Craig seriously needs to resign and let an “anti-amnesty for illegal immigrants” Republican take his place!
I’m getting tired of Republicans being wimps too. The party leadership needs to tell Craig to sit down, shove a sock in it, and stfu in no uncertain terms.
> Wow, this would assuredly piss off everyone, MSM, Libs, Conservatives, Rats and Republicans.
Not really. The Dims and Libs are popping popcorn and will just love this to be the top story until the Hilary campaign finance scandal story withers to nothing.
Given Craig’s lack of poor judgment, and (helloooo!) guilty plea, this is bad news for the GOP. *This* is the hill where we make our stand? Oy.
> Seems like to me that Rush spent a lot of time defending Craig today and he made a couple of statements that made me say “WTH’.
I agree... it pains me to say it, but on this issue, Rush is WRONG.
> There ya go. I think far more citizens are glad to know the public safety is being looked after than are not.
I know I am.
> Elites don’t think about this the same way the common folk do.
Rush and those who are defending Craig need to wake up. Is this really the place where we make our stand? Really? Please tell me it ain’t so.
I agree completely!
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Sometimes I get the feeling there is more... perhaps he is a closet commie. Then there was that Einhorn scandal.
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He pleaded guilty. He spent the entire time on the cop's tape trying to plead to a lesser crime. After listening to it, I'm inclined to believe the cop when he says Craig stood in front of his stall looking in. Craig himself said he stood there for a minute or two. The cop said other stalls were empty. Craig did not deny that.
A gal has a right to change her mind....
Larry Craig had a clear choice. He could have told the officers who were interrogating him and trying to coerce a guilty plea to drop dead.
If Larry Craig did nothing wrong and was not soliciting, why-in-the-everloving-world would he not fight the charges?
The transcript of the police report reads like a guy who has been caught red-handed and wants it all to go away as quickly as possible. I don’t fault the cops. They got a perp and got a guilty plea out of him.
IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE POLICE TO KEEP ARRESTS AND GUILTY PLEAS OUT OF THE MEDIA.
Craig got caught and knew it. He was desperately trying to keep it quiet, so he copped to Disorderly Conduct, thinking it would go away and his little secret wouldn’t be exposed.
A man charged with a crime he didn’t commit would be indignant and angry at the police.
Craig was desperatly trying to make it disappear. There is no defending this guy. He got caught soliciting homosexual sex in a public bathroom. He deserves every bit of ridicule and scorn that he is getting.
In that case, the guy is too stupid to have his job.
His resolve left him and when he had to face the heat all he could put out there is a flacid defense, then he bends over and resigns. His delayed ability to stand tall and erect seems like a serious disfunction. Isn’t there a little blue pill for that, viagra or no I mean valuim?
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lOVE THIS PIC!!!!THIS is a freeper classic!!!The WTF kitty!
Why doesn’t Craig simply switch parties. He will be just like and accepted by his peers.
Good catch, Tall Texan..
I don’t think there is a pill or even a cure for premature resignation out there. There is no way to re-enter the Senate, it’s exit only for him.
I don’t think Rush is “defending” Craig.
His show opening segment was a comic “Happy Feet” rendition.
What he is saying is that if a Democrat or liberal or progressive committed double murder, it would be considered OK because they have been soft on criminals, opposed the death penalty, mandatory sentencing and have coddled and had compassion on the murderers. Therefore it is OK for them to go on a 5 state killing spree and than ask for understanding because they are not hypocrites. Here is what Rush actually said:
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RUSH: She said it, and the fascinating aspect of this to me, which I’ve pointed out, I’ve been pointing this out countless times on this program for many, many years, and she says, “It’s the hypocrisy.” The left in this country, folks, has made it a point to go after the hypocrisy of conservatives and Republicans, not really the behavior. If they go after the behavior, they have to condemn the behavior on their side of the aisle. The whole point of the left is to have no standards, because if you have no standards, you can’t be held to any standards. If the left established standards that it wanted to adhere to, then it would have to jettison the supporters that come from the pervert ranks of the Democrat Party, the depraved, the gutter dwellers out there, they are all Democrats, and they are Democrats because the Democrats will not judge them.
Now, in the case of Larry Craig here, the impression is being left that he was forced to resign over being gay, and he wasn’t. He wasn’t outed. There’s a blogger at the Washington Post that’s all happy today because, “I got Craig. I outed Craig.” Was he outed? Has Larry Craig been outed? He has not been outed. In fact, he resigned because of the heat that he received for pleading to a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct. Everybody else seems to be filling in the blanks here with their own agendas. Now, remember, as I said moments ago, my friends, the aim of the left is to aim straight for the hypocrisy of conservatives and Republicans, not the behavior. In this case, they need the behavior of Larry Craig in order to hit the hypocrisy. We’ve had to deal with this before. Everybody out there that I’ve been watching this morning is making the argument that I made some time ago, and that is that the left’s position seems to be that since they have no moral standards, they can’t be held to any moral standards. Moreover, since we, on the right, do believe in moral standards, they say we must live perfect lives, which, of course, is not possible because nobody’s perfect. That’s what original sin is all about. Original sin exempts this. Nobody can live a perfect life.
So the left seems to want to zero-in and discredit virtually everyone who exhibits a failed lifestyle regardless their values. Of course, this is nonsensical because it’s not possible. That’s what they’re trying to do. We conservatives understand this as well. This is why we seek to limit the power of the elites, a handful of imperfect people who ride into power and want to determine what everybody can and can’t do. Democrats, everything they do is perfect because there are no standards that they adhere to. There are no rights. There are no wrongs. There’s no good or bad. Nothing applies to them. They are perfect. Liberalism is the standard, and it’s a standard that says everything goes. But they go even further. If one or a group of people who belong to the party of family values fails to live up to a high standard, then the entire party and movement is condemned. That is the tactic they’re employing here. The truth is that when they take this position on the left, they expose the idiocy of their views. The bottom line is this. We all ought not strive to be more perfect because we are imperfect. We ought not strive to be good and moral because we can’t be. That’s what their philosophy is. You shouldn’t try to be perfect because you can’t. You shouldn’t try to exude any morality because you can’t. What kind of philosophy is that? Therefore, if Larry Craig had been a Democrat and liberal, there would be no supposed hypocrisy because Democrats and liberals have no moral standards. If he would have changed parties, why, he’d be in great shape today.
This is the logic of the left, and it’s studied and it is purposeful. They need this position to defend the reprobates amongst themselves. I don’t need to name the reprobates. Why do they defend felons? Why are they trying to get felons the right to vote again? I have some friends in town today that went out to buy some shoes and some dresses, some ladies in town that I know. Do you know that there is not a law in this town to prevent the owner of the store from cutting a little peeping hole in a dressing room and staring at them as they take their clothes off? There’s not. As long as he doesn’t film anything, as long as he doesn’t tape anything, take any pictures, it’s okay for anybody in the store to check out these unsuspecting women anywhere in New York City. So the local council said, “This is not good. We need a law to stop this.” The New York Civil Liberties Union is opposing the law, saying, “Well, who gets to sit in judgment of who looking through a peephole is behaving in a lewd manner?”
So here you have a classic illusion of what we’re talking about. The left simply cannot allow laws to determine what is good or bad because they need the exemption. They need to be able to support and get the support of the perverts and the winos, the reprobates of American culture. They can’t do that if they come up with a political philosophy that condemns that behavior. For example, if you oppose the left’s agenda and one of the items on the agenda is expanding this idiotic hate crimes agenda to homosexuals where you receive more jail time for what you think when you commit a crime, if it happens to be against a homosexual you can add jail time to it because you must have been thinking bigoted thoughts of homophobia, and that’s on the left’s agenda. If you oppose that and so forth, you are mean-spirited, you are a bigot and are promoting a wedge issue and deserve no pity whatsoever. It’s very convenient for the left here. The point being that you are to be judged on how you support the left’s agenda. If you support the left’s agenda then you get away with anything and they will not condemn you. We saw this in the Clinton administration, folks. You had Bill Clinton accused of rape. He was accused of sexual abuse in the oval orifice, all these other things, and the left-wing so-called women’s groups are either silent or found ways to defend him.
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