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 can’t 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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but no money changed hands?
It is beyond me how the Dems can go all these years in bed with the driveby and still the public doesn’t get it. We are made out to be the ‘weird’ ones, in much the way Christians are, more and more often.
I noticed that civility is hard to find, away from here!
I don’t understand how the foot tapping is a crime, either.
I’m sure we’ll hear every detail down to how much bath tissue was on each man’s shoe.
What does money have to do with it?
There are no charges of prostitution, just soliciting a lewd act in a public restroom.
One can be pretty sure there is a law against it or the police wouldn’t be running a sting operation against it, would they?
Besides, it’s all moot, Craig more than compounded his crimes by his flagrant lying to the nation yesterday, and for that alone he should resign.
because, in this instance, it was a specific communication that he wished to commit a crime, and his other actions corroborated his intent.
You are looking at the action, not the communication, and it's clear intent.
This is the most stupid of the charges.
What's he supposed to do...leave his luggage outside? Sheesh.
Nothing sells like sex.
Who wants to read some boring, dry story about hinky campaign contributions?
We are going to have to wait for their fellow Dems to force the story on Hillary!, her minions in SF, and her top grand theft campaign contributor. (yes, I’m sure there are more criminals we don’t know about that, just darn it, don’t raise as much as he did).
We’re going to have to wait. Since it’s only if and when that’s made a story by say, Obama, Edwards, or any of the other front runners for “them” that it’s ever going to make anything but page A20.
That, and sex sells.
Yes, I have standards.
They are not to believe every last thing the MSM tells me about the GOP (or the WOT, or taxes, or global warming, etc. etc. etc.).
Are you saying that I can get arrested for telling you “Hey, let’s rob a bank.”
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Yes, if if you are seriously conspiring to do so with me, Absolutely.
What do you think the “Fort Dix Six” were arrested for?
It wasn’t for blowing anything up or killing anyone, was it? They conspired to kill people and were arrested on the basis of their intent, corroborated by their actions, which presumably included conversations they had about the plot.
What a biased reporting. No, it is not scandal scarred GOP, it is one senator. Not nearly as important a story as the Hillary scandals.
What's he supposed to do...leave his luggage outside? Sheesh.
I think we are missing a subtlety here, I believe the practice is to lay your luggage down to form as much of a barrier as possible, so for instance, if he was pulling a roll-away with him, he would lay it on it's side (the long side), to obscure as much as possible, instead of just standing it upright in the corner behind the door.
Not an illegal practice in itself, as was not foot tapping, but I guess it goes to "modus operandi" that Craig knew the exact routine used by the gays that were infesting the mens' room and followed the practice to sufficient extent to identify himself to an officer that was on the lookout for precisely that behavior.
The funniest thing about this is that nobody has given a thought for the poor police officer. I mean, what's the worse job you've ever had?
- Bet it wasn't sitting all day in a smelly toilet stall while others came and stank the place up around you, waiting in the hope that some pervert would solicit you for a blow job.
Not my idea of wholesome work!
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