Republican Senator Larry Craig of Idaho Arrested For Lewd Conduct in Men's Room

As soon as I read the article, I thought about all the klannish republican apologists at ET and the ET excuse makers who would try to deflect away from the party of "family values" when one of their leaders is exposed for the same type of perversion they generally condemn.

Let's see, it was news when George Michael was caught in a men's room for lewd conduct in an L.A. park bathroom....but not when a U.S. Senator who preaches family values?

LOL!

 

Choirboy Romney went on Bloomberg TV tonight and lied - said he knew nothing of the toilet boy details - only happened 3 months ago or whatever - to a Senator.

He'll collapse under national exposure when he has to campaign - same as his nutjob father did.




August 28, 2007
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Romney throws Craig under bus


In his first public comments since word of Larry Craig's arrest broke yesterday, Mitt Romney unloaded on his former backer, calling reports that the Idaho senator allegedly solicited an undercover cop in an airport bathroom "disgusting."

"Once again, we've found people in Washington have not lived up to the level of respect and dignity that we would expect for somebody that gets elected to a position of high influence," Romney told CNBC's Larry Kudlow in a broadcast to be aired later. "Very disappointing. He's no longer associated with my campaign, as you can imagine. ... I'm sorry to see that he has fallen short."

Craig was one of Romney's top two backers in the Senate and had worked to round up support there for the former governor. After Craig's bathroom encounter was reported, the Romney campaign moved to distance itself from the Idahoan, issuing a terse statement last night that it was no longer associated with Craig and that it didn't want the senator to be a distraction.

 

We agree that the guy is a hypocritical piece of shit. I see nothing wrong with being gay, but its plenty crappy to be crying from every mountain top about how terrible and sinful that "lifestyle" is, and to be living it yourself on the sly, all the while exposing your wife to any number of STDs etc.

 

And your point Brandon, is the one that archipus clearly chooses not to face.

JB

 

Looks like another slow thinker needs to be led by the hand.

Gay Democrats are openly gay; they don't have to skulk around in public bathrooms looking for sex.

Gay Republicans are mostly still closeted; they are the self-hating assholes who are overtly anti-gay to portray how "righteous" they are. So when they get caught in the men's room toe-tapping and hand-signaling, it's a news story.

"when republicans do it, it's a crime"

No, soliciting for sex in a public bathroom is a crime. I know, I know, all these pesky details hurt your little head. Go take some hillbilly heroin like your hero Rush, you'll feel better.

 

After you've informed your environmentalist friends that preventing a wind farm in their eyesight is hypocritical, maybe I'll listen to you.

After you've informed your global warmingmonger friends that riding private jets is hypocritical, maybe I'll listen to you.

After you've informed your socialist friends that getting rich by capitalist means is hypocritical, maybe I'll listen to you.

After you've informed your drug co and big oil co bashing friends that owning drug and oil stocks is hypocritical, maybe I'll listen to you.

Until then, go back to Kos where you'll be cheered on. Here, where there are normal people, you have no credibility.l


edit: And you might as well tell your good friend Barny Frank that running a homosexual call boy service in ones house is illegal, too. Yes, that Barny Frank, the one that was promoted to leadership status in the democratic party.

 

August 29, 2007
Political Memo
A Scandal-Scarred G.O.P. Asks, ‘What Next?’
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 — Scott Reed, a Republican strategist, was at a dinner in Philadelphia on Monday night when his cellphone and Internet pager began beeping like crazy. Only later did he learn why. His party was buzzing with news of a sex scandal involving a Republican United States senator — again.

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.

Forget Mark Foley of Florida, who quit the House last year after exchanging sexually explicit e-mail messages with under-age male pages, or Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist whose dealings with the old Republican Congress landed him in prison. They are old news, replaced by a fresh crop of scandal-plagued Republicans, men like Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, whose phone number turned up on the list of the so-called D.C. Madam, or Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and Representative Rick Renzi of Arizona, both caught up in F.B.I. corruption investigations.

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.”

Then again, Washington does not have a monopoly on the latest trend among Republicans. Just ask Thomas Ravenel, the state treasurer of South Carolina, who had to step down as state chairman of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign after he was indicted on cocaine charges in June.

Or Bob Allen, a state representative in Florida who was jettisoned from the John McCain campaign last month after he was arrested on charges of soliciting sex in a public restroom.

Mr. Craig, for his part, has severed ties with the Mitt Romney campaign, despite his public declaration on Tuesday that “I did nothing wrong.”

In an interview Tuesday on “Kudlow and Company” on CNBC, Mr. Romney could not distance himself fast enough. “Once again, we’ve found people in Washington have not lived up to the level of respect and dignity that we would expect for somebody that gets elected to a position of high influence,” Mr. Romney said. “Very disappointing. He’s no longer associated with my campaign, as you can imagine.”

Republicans, of course, do not have an exclusive hold on scandal. As Democrats accused Republicans of engaging in a “culture of corruption” during the 2006 midterm elections, Republicans eagerly put the spotlight on Representative William J. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who stashed $90,000 in his freezer — ill-gotten gains, the authorities said.

Still, there is a sort of “here we go again” sense among Republicans these days, especially since news of the Craig arrest broke on Monday afternoon. It is tough enough being in the minority, weighed down by the burden of the war in Iraq. Now Republicans have an even more pressing task: keeping their party from being portrayed not just as hypocritical and out of touch with the values of people they represent, but also as a laughingstock — amid headlines like “Senator’s Bathroom Bust,” which ran all Tuesday afternoon on CNN. The story also ran at the top of all the network evening newscasts on Tuesday.

“I’m hoping it’s a big mistake,” said one of Mr. Craig’s Republican colleagues, Senator Lamar Alexander, traveling Tuesday in Tennessee, his home state. “But it certainly does nothing to increase confidence in the United States Senate.”

With President Bush hobbled by his own political difficulties, the party can hardly look to him to lead them out of the morass. “If we had a coach,” said John Feehery, who was press secretary to Representative J. Dennis Hastert when Mr. Hastert was the House speaker, “the coach would take us in the locker room and scream at us.”

Some Republicans are indeed screaming, particularly the party’s social conservative wing, which places a high priority on ethics and family values. Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group in Washington, said the elections of November 2006, in which Republicans lost control of the House and the Senate, proved that voters want politicians in Washington to clean up their act.

“Exit polls show that was the No. 1 factor in depressing Republican enthusiasm,” Mr. Perkins said in an interview Tuesday. “There is an expectation that leaders who espouse family values will live by those values. And while the values voters don’t demand perfection, I do believe they want leaders with integrity.”

The perception that Mr. Craig is not living up to his own values is causing problems for him, and after his appearance on Tuesday, with his wife standing by his side, some Republicans confessed they did not know what to think.

“He sounded almost as convincing as, ‘I did not have sex with that woman,’ ” said Gary Bauer, a Christian conservative and onetime Republican presidential candidate, reprising President Bill Clinton’s remark initially denying involvement with Monica S. Lewinsky.

Mr. Craig is up for re-election next year and has promised to announce next month whether he is running again. Some, like Mr. Bauer, say he is unlikely to survive the current scandal; others, noting that Senator Vitter seems to have weathered his storm, say Mr. Craig might be able to tough it out. And at the rate things are going, says Mr. Reed, the Republican strategist, it might be only a matter of time before a new scandal pushes Mr. Craig’s woes off the front page.

“I’m a little afraid to say anything, because you don’t know what happens tomorrow,” Mr. Reed said. “That Vitter thing, that’s like ancient history now.”

Carl Hulse in Nashville contributed reporting.

 

"After you've blah blah blah, maybe I'll listen to you."

What makes you ASSume I haven't done all that, the only thing you know about me is that I've been here two years longer than you have, yet you have the gall to tell me to go back to Kos. Why don't YOU go back to freepers?

Nice try with the same old tired CONservative tactic of changing the subject.

"maybe I'll listen to you"

No, your mind's made up, and facts only confuse you. You'll continue to only listen to GOP talking points, it's all your brain can handle.

I didn't post to educate you, that's a futile endeavor. I posted in part to yank your chain. Glad to see it worked, Pavlov.

From wiki:

The New York Times reported on July 20, 1990 that The House Ethics Committee recommended "that Representative Barney Frank receive a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute." Attempts to expel or censure Frank failed; instead the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. This condemnation was not reflected in Frank's district, where he won re-election in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since.

 

A Republican gets caught soliciting gay sex in an airport bathroom, and is universally criticized, mocked and laughed-at. If there is a more persuasive argument for gay marriage, I haven't heard it.

 

Good tactic - change the subject when you can't win the debate. Just like Craig did. He was caught soliciting sex in a public restroom. He instead emphasized that he was not gay, "never has been." Craig and his supporters are just dumb or playing dumb that they don't know the difference.