>> He has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion on what others think he wanted to do rather than what he actually did.
Whatever are you talking about?
The perv plead GUILTY — while the crime he VOLUNTARILY PLEAD GUILTY TO was NOT known to the public!
C’mon, get real. Craig is not a retarded person or something that the state is taking advantage of. He’s a senator! Jokes aside, he darn well knows what he pleaded to and why he made the plea.
The police and the prosecutor charged him with two crimes. His second crime, that which he plead to, was a disturbing the peace generic admission. It was not an admission of homosexuality, homosexual intent and so forth. The recording of the interaction between the officer and Senator Craig bear that out.
Senator Craig was under the gun by his local paper—the editor of which was a liberal type who previously worked at the St. Paul Paper. They were looking for evidence he was a homosexual and had rumors only. Of course, if he was charged with the same, he was finished as viable Senate candidate.
The officer claimed Senator Craig would remain anonymous since he would not contact the press. Those that are so smart to second guess Senator Craig and counsel might also tell us who called the Washington DC blogger that broke this story.
Conservatives, IMHO, are far too quick to demand resignation or worse for those who have or look like they have participated or want to participate in some homosexual act. Since male homosexuality (point prevalence) is 4%, this means about 1 in 20 are open to Republican scorn and punishment.
Thus far, when the RATS want to dispose of a Republican office holder they either charge racism or sexual impropriety. We do the rest.
In the meantime, the RATS have unequivocal homosexual Congressmen. They also have a former President who solicited fellatio from a 21 year old female intern. In both instances public opinion remained unchanged or actually (in Clinton’s case) soared.
If you truly believe that you do not want homosexuals to serve in Congress—simply include such a prohibition in the Party Platform.
Well, it’s well known that he plead guilty to disorderly conduct only, and anyone can see the plea paperwork on The Smoking Gun.
Not sure how it got around that he plead guilty to anything else.