Sen. Larry Craig Tells Staff He’ll Resign Saturday

Good People,
at 62 years of age, this man has live his life. It was not live to his fullest, having to hide like that, but never the less, he lived his life.
You know,
now that the cat is ou t of the bag, it would be extremely couragous of him, to come to that announcement tomorrow, for once in his life, and to the end of it, being himself.
Stop the lies.
At this point, it don’t matter.
Everybody know.
So Mr. Craig might as well, live o ut loud.
he won’t be able to take back the guilty plea, but I bet you, thaat if he accepts himself, then everyone else, starting with his familily, radiating outward, everyone will not mind him being himself.
and You know,
It aint’ too late for him to find himself.
I hope he does…..

I hate the man’s politics, but can’t help imagining what led him into that bathroom.

Amber, he plead guilty. No further proof is needed, unless he claims he was waterboarded.

Amber – the man pled guilty. He is a grown man and a US Senator and should know what the consequences of a guilty plea is. Now he wants to take it back? Please. This fool needs to go!

he SHOULD resign!! rumors (which i know can be just that) have been floating around about his gayness for 25+ years!!! he pled guilty to make sure NOONE heard about it. that reporter had to DIG to find the charge. he did NOT want to go to trial. if you’re innocent, you don’t worry about the outcome. he is in a marriage of convenience and has been doing this stuff since he was in college. a LONG LONG time. . why the hell hasn’t david vitter stepped down yet since he committed a FELONY by constantly hiring prostitutes in d.c. and new orleans for 10+ years??? why the hell is he still in office? HYPOCRITE city.

He didn’t plead guilty to solicitation. He didn’t plead guilty to lewdness. He didn’t plead guilty to being gay. He plead guilty to indecent conduct, which is what he was told he did when he bumped someone else’s foot. My question… how far into HIS stall was the cop’s foot? Could it have been avoided? Were his feet REALLY in the other guy’s stall, or were the cop’s feet in HIS stall? I think this is completely ridiculous. Clinton can do what he did AND be impeached, but Craig, with a record of consistancy and decency and morality gets railroaded, yes RAILROADED, for wanting to just make his flight and making a mistake of pleading to a charge of indecent conduct while claiming his innocence to the OTHER charges the officer was making the entire time on the tapes. I wonder how many “signs” we make that could be taken for conduct for whatever crime on a daily basis. I wait for the handicapped bathroom stall to open, I don’t use the small stalls… I wonder if, by waiting and not using an open stall, I’m committing what could be considered a crime. I also park at the back of the parking lot and walk to stores, no matter the distance, so I can get exercise… I wonder if that’s where drug dealers park too and if I could get into trouble for that. I water my lawn at 2 am when it’s not hot… I wonder if that’s a sign for something too. Totally ridiculous.

I hope Larry Craig doesn’t turn “Budd Dwyer” on us during this press conference…

The fact that he has lost his job, based upon his prior history, does not mean he won’t be pursuing guys anymore. If anything, after he is canned, it is likely, and hopeful, that he will start to grow as a mature gay man. that lind was great.

This is completely ridiculous! After listening to the transcript of the cop V Craig. All they are going on is a so called left hand touching the bottom of a stall!!
Whether that happened or not is one mans word against another!!
Whether he is gay or not should have no bearing on this issue!! unbelievable what people will do? Was this a set-up to get a man to touch a stall divider & claim that he demanded SEX……absolutely ridiculous!!

Whether or not Senator Craig is going to resign, that cop Dave Karsnia should be arrested for investigation of Police Atrocity and violating human rights!!!

After the way even his party members are running from him, what other choice does he have BUT to resign if he does tomorrow. I stand by what I wrote before. I don’t think he did anything wrong after reading the transcripts. We have so much going on in the world that him staying in office, dividing the party lines, having attention drawn to him and his family instead of the truly important issues, would be against his record. He’s a respectable, upstanding, moral man. He’s not going to allow his family to go through the pain of scrutiny, have the country divided on such a stupid issue when so much else is going on, all for what? So the argument can go on for longer? So we can forget there’s a war going on? So we can ignore the parties running for president and what their platforms are? So we can ignore everything else going on around the world that truly IS important? He’s not facing jail time. He’s going to live out the rest of his life surrounded by the people who know and love him without having to deal with all the garbage in the media, and without making the members of the Republican party choose sides. He doesn’t have to fight. If he were facing jail, I believe he’d be fighting like the dickens. If he does resign tomorrow, I think it’s a sad remark on society and how quick we all are to jump on the media wagon and act like sheep being led by our media shephards. We’re no better than the supporters of the witch trials in Salem, or those led by McCarthy to hunt down all communists. Ridiculous. It will also be a strong show for the morality of a man who would rather just deal with what people are saying about him privately without continuing to have the entire country involved and making a mockery of the important issues. We all like to think we know everything, don’t we…. BAAAAAHHHHHHH BAAAAAHHHHHHH

Railroaded? Oh please. Hey C I will tell you this. If you ever slide your foot over into my stall you won’t have to worry about being arrested. The last thing you will see is laminate rapidly approaching your face and the sound of of your head popping like a grape after I slam it into the stall. Freak !! Quit whining about Clinton. Try being moral yourself and do what is right. This guy is guilty and HE said so. If he doesn’t know the law then he is incompetent and should be fired from the Senate anyway. Get a grip. You also forget the fact that he was in Minneapolis, not Boise. They didn’t railroad him, he walked into a sting. Pssst wonder why you defend him so? Watch out C, those cops might bust you too if your not careful.

Hey C, I couldn’t help but think how much your last posting sounds like a professional damage control spin doctor. Hey is it a coincedence that the Senators name begins with…oh man is it you Senator Craig? Bad boy…Bad boy! We don’t buy your story. Resign and go give head in the private sector.

There isn’t any proof of anything wrong except a eager cop trying to get someone. The senater should have NEVER pleaded guilty and should have fought the charge. Afterall on political issues that is what he is supposed to do for the people he represents anyway. As a lawmaker he should have known what was happening to him.

For 36 years, I have never bumped into someone else’s body parts while visiting a public toilet. Never. Neither have I ever reached down to pick up a piece of toilet paper off the floor. If the toilet paper falls, I leave it there. I grab some new toilet paper from the roll.
Larry wants us to believe that he accidentally collided with the cop’s foot because of his WIDE STANCE. But the majority of Americans are not buying it.

Resign and go home. Thank you.

Well, George… if you WERE in the WOMEN’S bathroom and I touched your foot in the stall, I wouldn’t be accused of anything, but you sure would. How easy it was for you to assume I was a man, eh. All of us think we know so, so much, don’t we. We listen to a tape, we read a transcript, then we rush to judgment, just like the media wants us to. I never said he was in Minnesota or Idaho. Guess you assumed I stated that too. And, now MY morality is in question because I didn’t rush to judge based on transcripts and tapes that didn’t indicate guilt to me? Yes, sheep… I guess George is the head ram. Follow him, he’ll take the country over the ledge like lemmings. BAAAAAHHHHHHH

If he’s so guilty, and it’s been going on for YEARS, according to the all-knowing sheep on this comment page, where are the men he’s been doing it with? When others have been accused of such things with women or other men, people are coming out of the woodwork. There are pictures, there are allegations, there is proof. His last year in office would have been next year anyway. Next year is an election year and the Republican party is already behind in districts. Senator Warren isn’t running again, which the party was depending on to keep Virginia a Republican state. Ever heard of party politics? This runs deeper than what we “normal” schmucks would or wouldn’t do if WE were accused of something we didn’t do. This isn’t just about him, the whole political shift of the country is affected when the media jumps on one party’s bandwagon or another. What’s not to get about that? Do you think the media cares if any of the news they report is true or not? They are out to sell papers, gain readers and control the populace. Give me a break!

This man, like so many “millions” of other bi-sexual, bi-curious men, like to participate in “anonymous” sexual acts. They are addicts.
If you research this, as the police have stated, their sting has caught lawyers, doctors, ministers just to name a few.
These “perps”, all assume that their counterparts speak their silent signal language for consenual sex, however, “without question”, they are all sexual predators and should be placed on the National Sex Ofenders Registry.
His turmoil, “at being caught”, is evident, but if he was not caught would be he continuing this charade.
Wake-up everyone! – these guys account for at least 30% of the American male populace who are self-declared swingers!
At least gay people have had the moral fibre to stand up and make the difficult personal and political choice to tough it out in this heathen society of evangelicals!
This looks good on him!
I hope that he someday may realize the pain and shame he has caused all who so selflessly work in Public Service.
It is a sad day for America for sure.

This guy is a disgusting pathetic lying hypocrit. Hopefully his replacement is an improvement.

What’s been going on for years is ANONYMOUS BATHROOM SEX. He’s had several people come forward speaking of incidents in TRAIN STATION BATHROOMS, AIRPORT BATHROOMS, etc. (On condition of anonymity) It’s a bit different from affairs and such… This is more of a clandestine, furtive, He-said/He-said situation, obviously It’s not like it’s easy to get under that stall with a camera… But trust me, others have indicted him… This certainly isn’t out of the blue for Sen. Craig

I, while not a homosexual, find people especially politicians like Senator Craig, disheartening when they make remarks such as they do about homosexuals and others, practice what they do and condemn, maybe we should look at what they say and maybe look closer at the men or women we vote into office. They are after all servants of the whole public, not just a select group.. of individuals. david glenn

BREAKING NEWS: Senator Larry Craig is not gay–he just pleaded guilty to lewd behavior in a public toilet two months later, that’s all!

cheesejet69: Moi, hate filled? Thanks for the laugh. Go say hi to Sean (baby Jesus)Hannity and Rush(druggie boy)Limbaugh for me. “Hey ur a great American”. Pffft!!! Was rational enough for ya? Lol.

cheese: Everytime we make rational explainations for why we think he should resign, you just call it “hate”. You blindly defend any GOP out there, regardless of what he/she did. If a democrat had the same political stance against ANY issue, and then turned around and did (yes, he did)the opposite, I would lose respect for that person too.
Explain me this: why was he caught in a bathroom far away from his terminal? He used that airport alot. Why did he take 2 months to plead, then act like he didn’t know what he was doing? Why does he have a history of this? Why would this cop lie?

Just another Washington scumbag who got caught. iT DOESN’T MATTER IF HE WAS dEM OR rEP. HE IS SCUM!!

I know what cheese is going to say. He’s going to say this is part of some left wing conspiracy and that the socialist police force of Minneapolis were working with the liberal Idaho Statesman to set him up. He’ll then go to say that Larry was brought back to the police station for interrogation where he was forced into confessing in order to catch his flight.

Is it a pre requisite to be perverted to serve in public office??

Craig pled guilty to a crime and, by his own account, picked up toilet paper off a public restroom floor. Either should cost him his job. David Vitter is not being hounded by the Republican leadership because the governor of Louisiana is a Democrat. The governor of Idaho, a Republican, will appoint Craig’s successor.

Craig should announce he’s running for president tomorrow. If somebody like Bush Jr. can get elected, so can Larry Craig. GO LARRY GO!!! LARRY CRAIG IN 2008!

Craig should have stuck with the train station in D.C. obviously had more luck there!!

I don’t understand why everyone is so excited by the presidential campaign. Our constitution doesn’t even allow for us to vote for president. Hence the electoral college!

Tony – according to reports 40-50 men were cited over a 5 month period. Yeah, it makes sense that they would target Idahoan Larry Craig… NOT. Don’t be a rube, the guy’s had a history of bathroom predilictions for years.

I live in Idaho Falls, Larry Craig is the State’s senator, not mine, I never voted for any of the phony “holy er then thou” group! Our State is ran by the LDS church and the REPUBLICANS.
The matter is not whether Mr. Craig is gay, who cares, except the majority of these morally righteous, white, annal retentive LDS Republicans here and probably across the bible belt is the hypocracy. Craig tells everyone about his “family values”, just the same way Duke Cunningham, Ney, Abranoff, Vitter, Livingston, Newt, Foley and many other closeted gays are preaching how everyone else should live. However, they can visit prostitutes and do the Toilet Two step, and we are suppose to believe them when they say, I WAS FRAMED!
Everyone with a brain in Idaho has known since probably 82 when the pages were being um, visited in the boys room, that him and several others were Gay. But, bottom line, if the Bishop says your o.k. and the Repubs, hell you can just about do anything you want. Except get CAUGHT!Because then they will have to say the G word!! He didn’t just get caught by someone who he could call a liar, someone Karl could slime, he got caught in a sting by a cop and pled guilty. He also said he visited that bathroom at least once a week, while traveling. Hum, complaints of lewd acts in bathroom, Craig visits once a week, cops set up sting, Craig decided to play tap tap with the cop. Yup sounds like a setup to me! So now they will put him out to pasture and bring in another troll! With better family values, he will only have sex in reputable hotels, far far away!

I’ll bet those guys on the Senate Ethics Committee are really glad he’s resigning. They’ve really been overworked recently.

Have any of you doubters ever used a public restroom?
There is no way in hell your foot needs to be in another person’s stall. Peeking through the cracks is NOT NORMAL!
Putting your hand under the divider is NOT NORMAL!
I’m gay too, but I think what he did is wrong. Go to a gay bar if you want a man! Then go get a room!
PS: DON’T PREACH YOUR FAMILY VALUES CRAP IF YOUR GOING TO SOLICIT GUYS IN BATHROOMS!

Hey, C, it’s ironic and comical that you are haranguing everyone else on here for “rushing to judgment” based on a transcript in light of the fact that you stated, “I stand by what I wrote before. I don’t think he did anything wrong after reading the transcripts.” Uhhmmm…hypocrite alert, hypocrite alert, the red lights are flashing for the self-revealed hypocrite who posted under the identity of C. Please return your soapbox to the store from which you stole it!!

tracing back to my earliest memories of life, having endured more moments than i can possibly count of ridicule and discrimination for having been born a gay man in this country, i realized tonight that i have more than earned my right, having somehow survived this long and difficult journey, to celebrate larry craig’s resignation. trying to fit into this world, today’s culture, where gays are considered second class citizens is hard enough without hypocrites like him inflicting more pain on the generations yet to come…

Do I recall someone having sex with a White House intern in the Oval Office? I guess that is acceptable behavior, since that person never resigned from his position.

It’s not fair to use hypocrisy as a talking point. It gives the Democrats an unfair advantage. Hypocrisy occurs when a person’s behavior conflicts with his stated principles. Since Democrats have so few principles, they are much less likely to be hypocritical. It’s not fair!

Senator Larry Craig was arrested at Minneapolis Airport on June 11. He plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge on August 8, almost two months later. He paid $575 and is now on one year probation.
The is why he is resigning tomorrow. This man is a disgrace to this country.

The Republicans have not asked Vitter of Louisiana to resign because they know he will be re-elected. Remember, those people re-elected the imbecile Ray Nagin.

The police officer did it many times before because he is a pederaster. Inciting to sex arousal with the intent to deceit. It is part of his job, he was doing a sting a got the unwary or idiot. The police officer was conducting a very well polished deceit. He did it many times and will do it again. The real cause of the problem is the airport authority by not warning the passers by with a sign such as; “Police pederasts at work here, be warned, trust no one.” Senator Craig had only a lapse of alertness, something bound to happen to all particularly if tired due to a long trip, or perhaps he was just curious about the police pederaster conduct. Senator Craig has the full benefit of the doubt as far I am concerned.

I can’t blame Romney from wanting to get far from this perv, otherwise his campaign will be a laughing stock. He’s not running in the Democrat primaries afterall. I have no reason to believe this cop would lie. After the senator screams “no” and tries to get away by showing his senate ID card trivializes his version in my book. What’s he doing in this stall anyways supposedly on the other side of the airport where his flight connected?