...this is not over yet, and there may/will be three more Republicans outed for being gay AND voting strictly against civil rights and benefits for gays.

Apparently, Mike Rogers, the blogger responsible for investigating these stories prior to their being acceptable for the M$M, is only planning to out the hypocrites among them. Those who do not vote the GOP hard-line against gays will not be outed.

The WaPo has a profile on Rogers: http://tinyurl.com/354wyy

Evidently it is more respectable to dress in a diaper with a prostitute than seek anonymous sex in a bathroom. It is more respectable to seek comfort with the opposite sex than with one's own. And it is more respectable to lie about who one is than to stand up for it. It is more respectable to make the lives of others miserable by one's own position and prejudices than to be honest.

Oh, the respectability. Are we going to march over the cliff together wearing our suits and ties?

From "The Lavender Scare; the Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government", a history by David Johnson...can I take a moment to give you an interesting excerpt?

"In October 1953, Roy Blick's vice squad (Lt. Roy Blick of the Washington, D.C. vice squad) arrested yet another government employee in Lafayette Park (in front of The White House) on a morals charge. All such arrests in 1950s Washington were potential fodder for partisan political intrigue, but in this case the stakes were even higher. Lester C. Hunt Jr. was the son of Senator Lester Hunt (D-Wyoming) who was up for reelection in 1954. The Republicans held control of the Senate by the narrowest of margins - only through the votes of Wayne Morse of Oregon, an independent, and the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Richard Nixon. (is this beginning to sound familiar?) Desperate for another Republican senator, Hunt's political opponents, led by (Sen.) Styles Bridges, then head of the Republican Campaign Committee, threatened to raise the issue in the 1954 campaign if he did not withdraw from the race. When Hunt refused, Bridges exerted pressure on Blick to prosecute his son, even though the initial charges had been dropped. The subsequent trial and publicity left Senator Hunt emotionally distraught and he began to seclude himself in his office. "He just didn't want to face the innuendo and rumors regarding his boy during the election campaign," columnist Drew Pearson wrote in his diary. On June 8 Senator Hunt announced that due to failing health he was withdrawing from the race. Ten days later, on a Saturday afternoon, he went to his senate office and shot himself with a .22 caliber shotgun. Styles Bridges, the man responsible for the Peurifoy revelation (State department guy who said there were 91 gays there who had been forced out)in February 1950 and the political mentor of Scott McLeod (state department internal security investigator who led the intra department witchhunt for homosexuals), and a principal backer of the Lavender Scare (which conflated communism with homosexuality see Joe McCarthy,)

was also the man behind its most brazenly cynical act."

Gloria Borger distinguishes herself among the mediocrities that inhabit Washington's journalistic habitat for her petulance and cocky manners. Although I am not at all surprised to read about her adulation for Karl Rove, it is still regretful to hear that she is still commenting current events.

your flaws appear that more glaring than those who don't profess to be perfect. Things such as the investigation of Clinton by those who had had affairs (Henry Hyde?)...Rush Limbaugh ranting about drugs while being an addict himself...high ranking members of the christian right engaging in the same activities that they use as a political sledge hammer against their opponents.

Didn't Jesus once say "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."? Perhaps its time that some of these so-called christians read the book from which they quote.

Did Chris Matthews really say Tony Perkins was "not a politician"? I had the misfortune of living in Baton Rouge while he was a LA House Rep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Perkins_(politician)

"You can get away with anything in Louisiana as long as you don't get caught with a live boy or a dead girl."

Maybe it works in Idaho, too.

So the Republicans don't like gays and hate gay sex. So what else is new? And is it any surprise that Senator Vitter was not drummed out of the senate for merely having sex with female prostitutes? After all, boys will be boys. Take away the Republicans' plank on family values, and there goes their religious base. Of course, Senator Craig is probably not the only closet case in Republican Washington politics. When will they learn that you can't vote for anti-gay measures during the day, and go out cruising for gay sex at night? It just ain't fittin', it just ain't right, as Mammy from "Gone with the Wind" might have said.

I hope all those Republican-voting Walmart clerks making $8 an hour in Dixie and the rest of the Bible Belt are happy with their Bush tax cuts, because the Republicans' plank on family values won't even buy them a roll of toilet paper for their outhouse. Of course, if they are only making $8 an hour, the Bush tax cuts are worth little or nothing to them, as well.

Glenn Greenwald is right on the money with his scathing assessment of the DOUBLE-STANDARD repugnant-repub fudge-pachyderms who SAY ONE THING BUT DO ANOTHER THING ALTOGETHER, EMBRACING ADULTEROUS BEAST Vitter WHILE KICKING Craig off the precipice with DISPATCH!!!!! Why do not Americans HOUND these HYPOCRITCAL repugnicants who FLAUNT their DOUBLE STANDARDS of "Do as I say, Not as I Do" to OBLIVION like the FURIES of olden times? I believe it has a lot to do with heterosexual machismo and the need to prove one is a REAL MAN like Vitter by having ADULTEROUS HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIRS on the side to affirm their manhood and then to flaunt and be proud of that DETESTABLE fact and then castigate the "Perverted Homo" like Craig and OSTRACIZE him from their DEVIOUS BROTHERHOOD of TRUMPETING FUDGE-pachyderms! This is not to say that Craig doesn't deserve what he reaped, but Vitter should be made to suffer the same ostracizing because he did, in my eyes and in the majority(I hope) of Americans' eyes, THE SAME DIRTY DEED! TROGLODYTE FOSSILS like Pat Buchanan still try to justify these HYPOCRITICAL repugnicant "Family Values"---Editor Walsh needs to bitch-slap that DETESTABLE Buchanan more!