Posted on 08/29/2007 6:40:03 AM PDT by RDTF
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Just when Republicans thought things could not get any worse, Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho confirmed that he had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct after an undercover police officer accused him of soliciting sex in June in a Minneapolis airport restroom. On Tuesday, Mr. Craig, 62, held a news conference to defend himself, calling the guilty plea a mistake and declaring, I am not gay even as the Senate Republican leadership asked for an Ethics Committee review.
It was a bizarre spectacle, and only the latest in a string of accusations of sexual foibles and financial misdeeds that have landed Republicans in the political equivalent of purgatory, the realm of late-night comic television.
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It is enough to make a self-respecting Republican want to tear his hair out in frustration, especially as the party is trying to defend an unpopular war, contain the power of the new Democratic majority on Capitol Hill and generate some enthusiasm among voters heading toward the presidential election in 2008.
The real question for Republicans in Washington is how low can you go, because we are approaching a level of ridiculousness, said Mr. Reed, sounding exasperated in an interview on Tuesday morning. You cant make this stuff up. And the impact this is having on the grass-roots around the country is devastating. Republicans think the governing class in Washington are a bunch of buffoons who have total disregard for the principles of the party, the law of the land and the future of the country.
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ROFL. Good on Bauer. Let’s drum Larry Fag out of office, now please.
LOL, good grief, the GOP has nothing to do with a pervert in the bathroom.
Barf!
Scandal-scarred? Did they ever call the Klintoons “scandal-scarred”? And that was a single “family”, not even a whole party!
Wait just a minute. Isn’t this “just about sex?” What happened to the old Clinton defense on diddling around? Oh, that’s right, it’s a republican.
Nevermind.
Every time he said he wasn’t Gay, his voice went up an octave. By the end of the press conference, he was singing Tip Toe Through The Men’s Room.
And just what caused this particular mindset, hmmm?......
They'll have a hard time matching the Dems with their former Grand Wizard of the KKK, Democrat Senator Byrd, too.
Only difference between democrat and GOP politicians is their constituency
GOP voters have standards and GOP scandal types are forced to resign
Democrats stay in cause their voters will vote for anybody
PLUS
The MSM sweeps all the democrat dirt under the rug
The VAST MAJORITY of politicians are power hungry arrogant no principled whores
I’ve never met a loud moralist that wasn’t a complete and total hypocrite.
Like this sick twisted pup from Idaho.
Bond, Lugar, Grassley, etc.
The one thing you can say about Craig was at least he had a decent voting record.
Hopefully, when he steps down he can be replaced with at least as, if not more, conservative a replacement.
The one thing you can say about Craig was at least he had a decent voting record.
Hopefully, when he steps down he can be replaced with at least as, if not more, conservative a replacement.
Yep...GOP constituencies adopt the "Yessir" attitude whenever the MSM directs them to unseat their GOP "scandal-ridden" politicians.
The subject was the similarity between conservatives obeying the media and Pavlovian dogs was it not?
Yeah, and if you are a scandal tarred NJ democrat governor, you are praised for your gayness and even get to go on Oprah. Episodes like this reek to high heaven of liberal hypocrisy.
That party is just chock full of stellar citizenry, aren’t they.
I read it, and as with most NY Times articles that deal with politics, it belongs in the op-ed section.
No mention at all of Cynthia McKinney’s slugging the security guy in the House of Reps, the RI Kennedy who was arrested for driving on drugs (claimed it was a sleeping pill, or something), the Clinton’s assorted sordid deeds (which would fill a special section of the Times) and other Democratic scandals that I (and apparently the Times) do not track. Business as usual at the Times.
Anyone that voted for that amnesty sellout should be run out of politics, that would include Craig.
I would say yes it is if you are doing it to communicate that you wish to indulge in an illegal act (sex in a public restroom).
It's the same as if you put your hand in your pocket and use it to make a threatening gesture at someone with your concealed finger that you are holding them up at gunpoint. You can't subsequently claim you never said anything or that you didn't actually have a gun, the intent is clear, and a crime has been committed.
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