Montana Republican Senator Larry Craig (the chairman of Mitt Romney’s presidential election campaign in Montana) seeks to withdraw guilty plea for misdemeanor lewd conduct charge. Was he soliciting for some hot steamy homosexual potty sex in the public restrooms in Minneapolis MN? Could he have been set up? It is one or the other, but then why did he plead guilty?? Is it possible he was looking for evidence of Bill Clinton’s sex life in the wrong gender restroom?
Another manly Republican down on his knees. Some will feel badly for him. I don’t, he is either that way or he made a choice. As a liberal, I can understand. His family is another thing, most unfortunate for them. As for his staff, excuse my laughing; I couldn’t give less of a damn.
Geesh Ed, as Con Game’s de facto “Liberal Gladiator,” how do you derive so much joy gloat over Craig’s obvious homosexual proclivity? Strap the same situation on a Democrat and you’ll throw a party at Barney Frank’s…
Your partisanship is showing…
Cheers,
It’s the blantant hypocracy. More embarrassing is while laughing, I wrote Montana intead of Idaho!!
I used to live right next to the Kalorama neighborhood in DC, where Barney Frank had a loverboy live in, running a gay prostitution operation, back in the eighties. I was disgusted, not so much by the sexual acts, as the irresponsiblity, the commissions derived from the acts, and the marketing; this all in Franks domocile!! As bad as this is and it is; just a step under the franking privileges abused by Rostenkowski, it pales when compared to substantive issues of the day, such as Kurds being gassed, the famines in Ethiopia, the S&L plundering, Tienamen Square, steering the Soviets toward a market economy, the growth and funding of Islamic Brotherhood organizational progeny.
Mitch, I used to be a Republican, but after twenty five years of issues, based on yellow snow morality politics, and flag burning, house bank, estate tax, defense of marriage, anti civil rights, impeachment instead of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein instead of Osama bin Laden, coupled with the scapegoating, politics of personal and professional destruction of people who disagree by the Atwater/Rove driven way of getting to power and wealth, I saw nothing defensible except the honorable beginnings of the party itself. I see the immigration issue as one of a series of steps to avoid paying wages, starting with the breaking of the unions, the moving of industries to our third world in the South, and then to Maquiladoros across the Mexican border, China , India and illegals destined for labor that can’t be outsourced like BPO and IT jobs.
We had working class Republicans enraged about the estate tax that 1100 people per year have to be concerned with, concerned about becoming gay and all sorts of silly things. The Democrats are better but not good; like an irritating hangnail compared to lung cancer. That is why I became a Green. I actually wanted something that I believed was organized around the ideals of doing what is good. Some Greens and many so called “independants” think and say both major parties are the same; they most certainly are not.
I now vote for the most viable alternative to the Republican candidate, unless there is something bizarre such as the Lyndon La Rouche situation in Illinois, or more importantly any reform minded Republicans I have yet to meet. Otherwise, no chance.
All in all, this is why I am not likely to vote for a Republican any time soon. This is different from the working class Republicans and the Taliban Christianite Ted Haggard types who will NEVER vote Democratic, even as a consideration.
Ed–I do enjoy reading your prose….
I agree the two-party system poses something of a Hobson’s choice… or at least a choice between two highly disagreeable options. You seem to have come to grips with this by embracing the ideals of an alternative party. I find this problematic since no minor party generates enough momentum to effectively weaken the Republican/Democrat strangle-hold on the Federal Government.
I’ve been a registered Democrat since my 18th birthday. I’ve never cast a straight-party ballot. I too seek the most viable candidate, and I make this determination on how closely a candidate’s views comport with my own. To date, this test has failed to align along the Democrat party line…
In truth, I find party labels of little to no use, which is not to say you cannot assign a meaningful conclusion about a candidate based on his/her party affiliation. To the contrary, you can, which is part of the problem with the two-party system.
Senator Craig’s predicament is just the latest in a long history of unfortunate individual conduct that reminds us—as if we need reminding—of human imperfection. Should Craig resign? Yes. Not over the act of soliciting gay sex in an airport bathroom, but for thinking this might go undiscovered if he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. That’s not the kind of mental firepower I want in the Senate. Apparently, Romney drew a similar conclusion.
Cheers,
I don’t much care for what either major party has done — for themselves. They are killing the power of meaningful American sovereignty for simple naked power. But if they are killing power, what are they getting?
I realize that A6 will see this as yet another vicious attack on his Republicans, but they are most of the problem not ALL of the problem. They became most of the problem, when they went for the Atwater solution, with Gingrich led walkouts, and the sickening self righteous moral superiority message. The historically towering deficits did not help this fiscal conservative, nor did the socially conservative claptrap.
The genesis of demographic divisiveness, was part and parcel of the GOP wedge issue strategy in the eighties. You know this, no need to recapitulate. It just seems as though, everytime I hear talk of liberty, efforts ensue to limit freedom in our country. They talked of uniting and hardly anyone thinks we are United, even as States (Reds and Blues). You’d think we were experiencing an antebellum social flashback. The war on drugs saw the highest drug use per capita, ever. Law and order, gave us shocking crime rates, ( the crime rate from ’69 – ’73 was considered outrageous, only now are we getting back down to that level). Of course we have the war on terror (deliberate lower case) going after Osama bin Laden — in Iraq, did he live there or even visit or something? As far as morality goes, Livingston, Gingrich, Craig, Haggard, Hyde, Ravenel, Packwood, on and on ad nauseum almost infinitum. To me the Democrats are better, much better but not good.
Craig should resign for the reasons you give, more than enough, but also duplicitous hypocracy. I really don’t give a damn about Craig’s sex life, just the political context. How do people like this get elected? The stoopider electing the idiot? Honestly if the whole kit and kaboodle, federal and executive branches enjoyed quaffing some of Jim Jones Koolaid “special,” I would have mixed emotions. I mean we all have to go anyway. You and I disagree on probably a lot, as far as getting to the objective is concerned, but not the ultimate objective, but I feel connection to your humanity and yet, none towards the presumptive humanity of the self serving aggrandising, Congress and White House.
I am a “people person, and when I ran for office, the shocking ignorance of the Democrats that were able to easily out vote my party, blew me away. Supporting publicly financed stadiums, through general obligation bonds, instead of fixing decrepit schools, lowering mass transit costs, hospital closures and so forth. The truth, doesn’t offer many catchy political jingles -deceptive slogans. That is the path to power, “I want to be a uniter not a divider.” We’re ready for China now! Wait! Iran first, we just might be able to do what no one has been able to do; unite Shi’a and Sunni against us. Sometimes it is tough being “uniters.”
OK a little sarcasm and disgust.