Well at least we see where the GOP draws the line: flirt with guys in public restrooms. Thats a big No-No.
Lie the country into a war then have no idea what to do once in the war, create concentration camps, OK torture of prisoners of war, subvert so many Constitutional rights that I can't even remember all of them,out a covert CIA agent for political revenge, politicize the national judiciary system......thats all good, no problem, move along.
I've always wondered about the Log Cabin Republicans..the Gay GOP support group. (#1, what's with the Log Cabin thing?)Wondered what would make them want to associate themselves with a political party that consistently calls for them to be exterminated. Apparently, they may know something we don't.
"dead girls and live boys" continue to be the killers of political careers. Hence Vitter skates (the girl lived) and Craig goes bye-bye. (Wonder why the GOP forgot that as they went after Clinton?)
Bet many "wide stance Republicans" are a bit nervous about right now. But that won't stop them from burrowing deeper in their closets and sharpening their knives to attack liberals and any other "wide stance GOP" that gets caught outside the closet.
Posted by Marie at August 29, 2007 02:05 PMT2, Log Cabin Republicans have money. They think the Reps will let them keep more of their money and leave them alone because while they're gay, they're part of the corporate elite. It's a classic case of "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Want tax cuts? Get a gay marriage ban!
Posted by ann at August 29, 2007 02:24 PMYes, ann, "you're money or your life" and unlike Jack Benny, the LCR and libertarians didn't have to think before going with "money."
Posted by Marie at August 29, 2007 02:42 PMWhat so wrong with Republican baseball players, football players, basketball players, and hockey goalies? What's so wrong about driving a Pontiac? All of these are wide stancers. The wide track provides stability. Just what people want stability. Oh yeah, Hummer drivers too.
Those "Log Cabin" Republicans won W the vote in Florida. In 2000, there were ruffly 9000 gay and lesbians in Florida. Ninety percent voted Democratic, leaving about 900 to vote Republican. Look at the margin, they put him over the top.
Posted by peter at August 29, 2007 02:46 PMPetertroll, you imbecile. The Supreme Court gave Bush the 2000 FLA vote with a healthy dose of race-based rigging by the candidates own brother, Jeb.
Posted by T2 at August 29, 2007 02:55 PMCraig steps down from all his Committee posts!
Posted by Seven of Six at August 29, 2007 03:25 PMWhat's better than the sight and sound of ambitious Republicans cannibalizing one of their own?
But where did McCave find his balls?
He sure didn't have any to stand up to Karl Rove when the Rove smear machine targeted McCave's wife.
Posted by Christopher at August 29, 2007 03:27 PMgod, pants pissing peter, you're stoopid even for a troll! The Republican Supreme Court selected Dear Leader.
hmmmmm, maybe pants pissing peter is a wide-stancer too
Posted by gay veteran at August 29, 2007 03:29 PMit's a win win call for mccain...not much to lose for him...kind of sleazy...craig should resign but old john has done his share of bending over...
Posted by dennis at August 29, 2007 03:30 PMSenator Larry thought that public service should be performed in public restrooms.
Posted by TIKI AL at August 29, 2007 03:33 PMGosh, I'll need more than hip waders to get through this rising tide of self-pity, indignation, moral outrage and unentitled sense of persecution from the flying monkeys.
Someone hand me a dinghy and umbrella, too!
I suspect the real problem the moral valuementarians have with Craig isn't just Teh Gay. After all, a huge swath of the squawkingest social conservative hypocrites in the Republicult openly practice without being hassled provided they march in lockstep with their theofascist and corpofascist collective when required.
No, Craig's fellow IOKIYAR Republicult phonies are pissed at being deprived of their patriot he-man posing and the girly-man rhetoric they like to sling to "prove" they'll -- hell, it's stupid even to lay it out but this is their platform -- be manly-man tough on terrorists.
You know, by shaking their plastic sabers with a lusty grab of the virtuous crotch and a hearty Chickenhawk yell ... for others to go actually fight the scary bad men!
YAH!
Alas, with so many of them spilling out of closets and bathroom stalls and prostitutes' calendars at an alarming rate, it would appear that the innate flaws in that particular military "strategy" are becoming apparent to them only five years after they were forehead smackingly obvious to everyone else.
Posted by Ellie at August 29, 2007 04:49 PMHere's the police report. Seems there were hand jesters along with foot jesters.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0828071craig1.html
Posted by Judith at August 30, 2007 12:11 AMWhy are republicans not calling for David Vitter to resign? Bunch of wide stands hypocrites.
Posted by New Age at August 30, 2007 11:10 AMNew Age:
1) Even if diapers are involved, boy on girl action, even with prostitutes is fine... manly, even. But more importantly,
2) Idaho has a Republican governor while Lousiana's is Democratic.
Posted by iamcoyote at August 30, 2007 11:28 AM"boy on girl action"...uRcoyote:
And then there's boy on pretty blonde girl school teacher action which is even better! Ya-ummmm!
Every red-blooded, red-stated good 'ol boy's dream.
Posted by TIKI AL at August 30, 2007 12:31 PMHa! TIKI, I think we've found your weakness!
Deploy Fembots!
Posted by iamcoyote at August 30, 2007 12:39 PMWe on the left are our own worst enemies.
Now that the two week long coverage of Michael Vick has ended, I guess this Larry Craig story will continue until he resigns from the U.S. Senate. My guess is that will happen when the White House no longer needs the media diverted from the ramped up re-surge in Iraq, and for the coming escalation of the war to include Iran (2nd week in September, or so I'm hearing).
Why isn't anybody asking how a U.S. senator gets arrested on June 11th, pleads out on August 8th, and the public only learns about it (from Roll Call, not the Idahoan, which had deep-sixed their own piece on Craig) on August 28th. The day after Alberto Gonzales, the most corrupt Attorney General since Ed Meese, steps down after months of revelations as to the crimes committed by him and this White House? That story was guaranteed to focus much needed attention on the criminal doings of the Bush administration, and yet remarkably the media's attention gets diverted again, by another Republican sex scandal.
Idaho is a solid red state. It's of no gain for Democrats. Yeah, Craig and Republicans are hypocrites, but what else is new? This isn't going to change any red staters' minds. It will reinforce for homophobes just how tawdry and disgusting they think homosexuality is, and it will reinforce for civil libertarians what a waste of public resources sting operations are.
For Chrisssakes, if somebody's foot brushes against yours under a public restroom stall, 'Man-up' and say, "I'm not interested, move your Goddamned foot!"
Rightwingers' chutzpah knows no bounds - talk about a 'nanny society.' Rightwingers seem to have only two responses to their homophobia: They either go into macho, 'Matthew Shepherd'-hyperdrive, or they insist that the police hold their hands and lock up pathetic men (tragic really) like Larry Craig.
This is a diversionary story, and not worth the time being given it, but count on liberal blogs to take the bait, too. This is why I say that we are our own worst enemies. We buy into stories like this, too, and listen to old video tapes of Craig (and current police audio tapes) with glee.
How did Roll Call get this story? Because that's what we should be asking.