Letters to the Editor
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Let me guess
Found Jesus and wants to spend more time with his family.
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If only Craig
had been caught in a Ladies Room at the airport ...
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His wife has played along with this charade from day one of their marriage
Her indignant attitude during a recent taped interview was more than a bit silly - she's nobody's fool. Jiminy, hon, some of those perks you are so used to are finito today. Don't forget to shut the door on your way out.
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He SHOULD resign -- from the GOP.
Then he should declare himself either an independent or a Democrat, start caucusing with the Dems, and run for re-election as a Dem. He won't stand the chance of a meatball in a dog pound, of course, but he could make all sorts of good, wholesome trouble for the Republicans in the next year and a half. And in his speech declaring his decision he should come out of the closet, apologize to the many gay people he has directly or indirectly harmed with gay-baiting rhetoric and an anti-gay voting record, and promise that he's finished with that sort of behavior. But he should remind his constituency that a man of his age was raised to understand that if he was gay, he must deny it, must pretend to be straight, and must prove his heterosexual bona fides by attacking gays and declaring his revulsion at every possible opportunity. He should go on to say that he is a Republican because he believes in fiscal responsibility, not bedroom policing, but he said what he needed to in order to get elected, and now deeply regrets it. And then he should meet the Dem leaders and hit the ground running.
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Other Shoes, Other Fetishes, Other Stalls
Two questions to ponder:
(1) Will Senator David Vitter ever tell us exactly what he does with/in those diapers he allegedly wears during his paid escapades with prostitutes? It is interesting that the GOP finds Vitter's kinky diaper games with prostitutes ever so more tasteful and family-values-oriented than Senator Craig's nudging of a shoe in an adjacent public bathroom stall.
(2) Speaking of shoes, Larry Flynt probably has in reserve another interesting shoe or two to drop on the public. I'd expect another expose' by Flynt during the week after Labor Day. Which family-values-preaching politician/hypocrite will be the next to make his tearful, public admission of "sin?" Of course, all will be forgiven by the "Base" when the inevitable, formulaic "promise to come to Jesus" follows, with the loyal, brave spouse standing at the culprit's side.
A Democrat will eventually get embarrassed in this gotcha game, for sex is a nonpartisan drive. (We did have Bill Clinton, after all.) But these days the betting odds on hypocrisy and compulsive behavior seem to be running at least 50 to 1 in favor of Republican politicians. The GOP seems to have cornered the the market on sanctimony and its attendant hypocrisy.
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When will conservative Christians realize they are being used?
For me this whole sordid mess just goes to point out once again that Social Conservatives, a.k.a. "The Religious Right", are just being used. The Republican party's alignment with conservative Christians stems from advantage and not from principle.
You'd think the actions of Craig, Vitter, Foley, Gingrich, Thurmond, Henry Hyde, et.al. would curtail the effectiveness of religious based condemnation employed by the GOP as a political tool but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Hey, maybe someday Republicans will discover the Christian values of charity, honesty, and genuinely giving a damn about other people.
As far as the calls for Craig's resignation go - I doubt they would be so strident if he came from a state with a Democratic governor.
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Divorce?
Surely a divorce filing is under way. His wife could take him to the cleaners right now. He would end up poor, homeless and living in public restrooms, which he might not mind.
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Craig will resign
We have a very Republican governor here in Idaho. He can appoint a staunch Republican to replace Craig. Vitter would be replaced by a Democrat. That's the long and the short of it.
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All Craig, All the Time...
Yes, he is a hypocrite in that his personal life doesn't match his politics -- because he's living in a closet in a homophobic nation.
That seems a lot less newsworthy for a higher brow publication like Salon would like to be than public servents who are hypocritical within their politics (e.g. Republicans who support small government and a bloated national spy network, or Democrats who claim to like the poor and take money from industries that expand the weath gap).
Oh, but this is about sex and Craig is a Republican, so it's okay. Well then there's nothing wrong with the Clinton impeachment? Tim Grieve is being the hypocrite now.
Moreover, why not focus on things that more directly affect people's lives -- or that are closer to our political home. For example, Obama made the "bankruptcy bill" worse by opposing an amendment that would have capped interest rates on credit cards at 30% -- did you know that? Did Tim blog on that? That's a fucking hypocrite, taking bank money and doing their bidding on an amendment in the dark and claiming to be about new politics (of course he didn't vote for the bankruptcy bill itself because he didn't need to; it had the votes already -- i.e. politics as usual).
We need to get our own party in order if we are really serious about fixing this nation. The GOP is going to implode on its own and Craig's bathroom problem is more sad commentary about our national culture than it is a political matter.
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You can still have sex in rehab.
Just ask the Riders of Lohan.
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I imagine
had the Republican party been less tenacious and indignant (and shocked, shocked) at Clinton's adult, consentual affair where no laws were broken, the public might be more merciful to Republicans who break the laws they insist upon, then lie to the police, then blame their troubles on "the media."
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I think he should go into rehab first
and THEN he can "spend more time with his family." Cover himself real good that way.
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WTF?
I could pry myself into a leather mini-skirt and don a tube top made from an ace bandage (I'm male, so it won't be pretty), then walk seedy sections of a large urban area, and I still won't be arrested for breaking a law until I mention exchanging a sexual act for money to an undercover police officer.
Yet young Eliot Ness (sp?) can sit around in stalls, waiting for and arresting men who display a series of physical behaviors he is sure constitute a solicitation of consensual sex without so much as a word exchanged or an article of clothing removed. No, we shouldn't defend the rights of people who want to randomly have sex in public places. But shouldn't they actually commit a crime instead of intimating one before they are subject to the justice system?
That Larry Craig is a senator and should be held to a higher ethical and moral standard is a separate issue. What law did he actually break to get into the news in the first place?