Posted on 08/29/2007 7:03:12 AM PDT by teddyballgame
Idaho Senator Larry Craig obviously did a very bad thing in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport in June. Whatever took place between Senator Craig and an undercover police officer was bad enough that Senator Craig tried to hide it from everyone around him, public and private. It was bad enough that he pled guilty, hoping it would stay buried forever. There are many things about this affair that have made him politically radioactive, and fatally so. The press statement he gave to the media earlier Tuesday afternoon did not help make his predicament any less dire. In fact, it made it worse.
Senator Craig said very strongly that he did not do anything wrong, that he is not gay, and that he is not ruling out running for re-election next November. Here's what else Senator Craig has not done.
He has not estimated highly enough that his 'I shoulda hired a lawyer instead of trying to solve this myself' excuse doesn't fly with the American people.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
He needs to be pushed out. Republicans nationwide should cut him no slack. He’s hurting the party.
This sad excuse of pleading guilty when he is supposedly "innocent" isn't flying because we know that someone in his position could have easily hired the best lawyer in the world to defend him against these charges. Had he been found not guilty, there would be no scandal today.
The whole point of this is to drum out yet another Republican from office. At some point there has to be some pushback.
Saw his little press conference yesterday where he said he was sorry that he brought unhappiness to his famil friends and staff. I thought what he was doing in the bathroom stall was going to bring happiness to his “staff”.
Mr. Craig will now reap what he has sown - for years.
He will find few friends on Capitol Hill. He is an arrogant, self-centered ignoramus.
I met him years ago at a large GOP fundraiser in DC. He has much to be humble about - but you can’t convince Mr. Craig of that.
Push back for a good guy. Let this pervert go.
BINGO!... That 'little error in judgment' tells it all.
People who are innocent or simply victims of a mistake, people who have nothing to hide, would tell it to his wife, at least. HE DID NOT!
Do politicians really think we, the people, are THAT STUPID??????????
ANSWER: YES they do! :)
Yes, but the difference is Patches (Kennedy), McGreevey (I am a Gay American), and William (cold cash) Jefferson all SHOULD have resigned.
Three wrongs don’t make another wrong.
Tap your foot three times if you think he should stay. ..IMO, I would think he’d want to put this embarrassment behind him. What, does he need the money?
You left out Barney Frank and Gerry Studds.
He needs to go and right now. The governor can appoint someone to fill his last 16 months. Democrats have learned to live with drunken, lecherous sots. We don’t have to.
What is not really being reported is that he plead guilty to the lesser charge, the misdemeanor but that he was also accused of a larger charge (lewdness). He plead guilty to the lesser charge hoping it would go away. He is also guilty of the larger charge.
In the coming days/weeks, you’ll see the MSM drip out all the rumors, proven and unproven charges and other innuendo that this arrogant jerk is most likely guilty of.
The fact that he knows the code speaks volumes. This guy is very sick and needs to be drummed out of the party.
He should resign for his criminal conviction. If he should resign for being a “pervert” then, to quote David Kurtz (in Talking Points Memo)
“Let the purges begin. Presumably, in addition to homosexuals, the GOP must be cleansed of the divorced, adulterers, abortion recipients, gamblers . . . the list goes on. Once you remove all the “sinners” from the Republican Party, the Democrats should hold a decided electoral advantage.”
If he had the politics of Barney Frank I would agree. To me the glaring hipocrisy has sealed his fate, not the deed or his sexual proclivities.
Why does the author presume this would go on til next November? If Craig tries to run again, the GOP will see that he gets a strongly backed primary challenge...a challenge he will lose.
It looks like the Republican primary in Idaho will be in May. I think that’s the farthest out we have to put up with Craig and his attitude that he somehow deserves to remain in that seat.
And yet a former Senate page who served 10 terms as an Arizona congressman and was found naked in a hot tub with 2 16 year old boys walks free.
“can name 3 democrats off the top my head that were not asked to resign ...
You left out Barney Frank and Gerry Studds.”
I’d like to think that’s what separates the Republicn Party from their’s. We kick our perverts out.
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