Senator Pleads Guilty

Looks like the Star Tribune in Minneapolis was slacking on this story. Whoever was on the cop beat that day and the court beat the other day will probably be in trouble. Shouldn’t have missed this one, Trib.

( ( ((( GASP!!! ))) ) ) A GOP who is involved in a hypocritical act of sexual deviance? SAY IT AINT SO! LOL… not again!

The Puritans,the Republican party who hold themselves to a higher standard than mere mortals. Gays and lesbians are bad. bad people. Women who exercise the right to have an abortion are evil, husbands who commit adultery lack family values,a fathers who would abandon his children for a mistress and go as far to evict them from their beds for the sole purpose of having his mistress preside with him at the mansion. Bad! bad father!What about that! these low life scoundrels hide behind the mask and sham of the pure,holy Republican party! As Grandma would say “What a hoot!”Rudy and Judi’s campaign will be more entertaining then any sitcom!

He’s a homophobic closet case. Why isn’t the press all over this story. Wasn’t he caught in a DC restroom doing the same thing last year. George Michael was raked through the press mercilessly for this but he is ‘out’ so that makes trashing him okay.

Thousands of men and women are labeled sex offenders each year and ordered to register in their home state for spanking their children’s bottoms, urinating in public, and many more things that are in no way associated with sex acts with a child. Sounds like this incident falls into that same catagory. I wonder if Senator Craig will escape this fate. The law that includes those with no history of or intention to offend against a child may be without merit but it should pertain to all or be changed. Will the Senator be restricted as to where he can live (not near a school or daycare) and will he now have to have an approved escort every time he is around any child under 17 years of age? Again, let’s change the law or be sure it pertains to all.

Yeah, it’s weird that more elected homosexuals have come from the GOP than from the Dems.

Yeah, and then we will sell all of our car factories, leaving us nothing to produce weapons in case of war (as in WWII). We’re beeeeggging to go under.

What a pathetic disgusting moron this guy is. First he plays footsie in the men’s toilet with intent on performing, who knows what bizaar deviant sexual acts with a stranger, then pleads gulity, then claims its all just a big misunderstanding. Please Senator Craig, resign and spare us the sickening trama!

Why do Republicans, the party of “law and order”, always argue against the law when they are caught with their pants down?
Namely Craig’s excuse that he should have got a lawyer and not pled guilty.
Every prisoner in America that pled guilty should file an appeal using that excuse. Brilliant!

What a red-letter day for the Democrats–first Gonzales’s resignation and then the Craig scandal which, as the days go on, undoubtedly will become more embarassing for Craig and the Republican party. The Clintons will be opening a bottle of champagne (or two) tonight at the Vineyard.

I wonder what the mayor of Fort Lauderdale has to say on the matter….

“I may be crazy, but the story says that this guy got arrested for tapping his foot?”
Mike … you must be crazy.
The story says he PLEAD GUILTY for lewd conduct and has been sentenced to pay a fine, is the only sitting US Senator on probation for a year, and has a 10-day jail sentence being stayed.
This isn’t “he said/she said.”
The guy plead guilty.
He’s guilty. If he was innocent … he would have plead not-guilty, just like you or I would have.
But he didn’t. He plead guilty.
Just like the story said.

What the (bleep) did he allegedly do and plead guilty of doing? Reading this article wont tell you. Have we resorted to treating politicians and anyone else who is rich/famous/powerful with silk gloves?
Come on ABC!

Those things we deny come back to destroy us.
How sad. How predictable. How painful to his family.
So I guess not only priests to this; republican conservatives too. Lawdy!

you mean he is gay? Is that what caused the stir in the pot, heard parts on CNN but I didn’t get the whole picture when they said it was disorderly conduct, I thought maybe he had to much to drink and fell when I heard about the arrest never knew it was a gay man being arrested in the bathroom, how disgusting.

“Ripley’s Believe or Not”!
Statement of Senator Craig:
Boise, ID – Idaho Senator Larry Craig made the following statement in response to the Roll Call story this afternoon: “At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions. I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct. “I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously.”
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Sounds like he was looking for more than playing footsie! There is nothing wrong with being Gay, admit it, go on with your life, be happy.

I agree, this old man is one dirtie old birdie!!

Just for a moment, let’s consider the senator’s comments are true and that he in fact has a wide stance and his actions were misconstrued….What concerns me is he is one of 100 senators that make some of the most important decisions on behalf of our country’s citizens. Do we really want someone that doesn’t have the wherewithall to ask for a lawyer or openly contest the charges….but instead attempts to “handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously”?
I would expect a more mature and thoughtful deliberation on the matter at hand. But instead, it appears a quick cover-up was the intent. And this man is making decisions that affect the lives of our families, our military and our future? We have a serious problem and I hope the media along with Congress takes this as a most serious breach of conduct. I feel sorry for the residents and the state of Idado. I feel worse for our country that has this kind of person with no ability to manage a crisis, in charge of making any decisions at all. God help us. Someone please remove him from office.

Hello, have you met the state of Idaho? I live next door in Washington. Some of the wealthiest Republicans reside and party there along side some of the most poor and desperate of our nation.

This is not necessarily so: “If gays were afforded the same rights, then gays such as this jerk, would not have to have unsafe, promiscous sex in public places.” … internalized homophobia is a mental disease … it is self-loathing … and of course validates this self-loathing in the person’s experience. Sadly, people like the senator would never accept the idea of being a “healthy homosexual” … their mind is too twisted with self-hatred. But … what about the U.S. as a whole … countries all over the world are legalizing same-sex marriage and yet we fall for the deceit of people like this senator and remain steadfast in denying equal rights to our own citizens??

And they call us degenerates? Those republicans hate the poor, the hungry the very people that pay the very high bills that they incur. Shame on him…I love that Karma kicks butt quickly.

In America we sell injustice to the rich and force it on the poor.

Tapping his foot indeed!

I just LOVE it when this happens to the holier-than-thou, ‘So-called’, party of family values and moral values. Remember that guy named Foley from Florida? It’s just like when Bush said that he was going to bring ‘Honesty and Integrity’ back to the Whitehouse and then lies to us nearly every day about the reasons for starting his disastrous war in Iraq and denies how terrible things are over there since he made his bone-headed decision to invade. The Republican Party should rename themselves as the ‘Hypocrite Party’. If there is any justice in the world the GOP should lose by a landslide in 2008 just like they did in 1974 after Nixon’s lies, hypocrisy, and corruption were exposed.

I pray that a member of Senator Craig’s family or of his staff may read this. Senator Craig very clearly is sexually compulsive, that is, he is a sex addict. His behaviors fulfill every contemporary definition and understanding of the word “addiction.” (The same is true of President Clinton, Mark Foley, and the like.) The various sex addict 12-Step fellowship meetings are filled with men arrested for the exactly same lewd conduct and exactly the same “defense” (denial); but they are not senators, and they are required to attend one year’s meetings of a 12-Step sex-addict fellowship. Their initial denial is extremely strong as they cling desperately to their cover-up lies; happily, in many cases, such men are able finally to surrender to their addiction and to begin the journey at last to a genuinely happy, open, truth-filled life. May Senator Craig find this joy too.

REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY IS JUST NEVER ENDING!!! What a bunch of hypocritical, intolerant, immoral, divisive, foul, corrupt, homophobic cretins. This scumbag can now join Vitter, Foley, Livingston, Gingrich, and all the other Republican liars, in the Republican Hall of Fame. The Church, televangelists, conservatives, and the Republican Party are some of the most vicious homophobes, yet seem to have an awful lot of homosexuals in their ranks. I guess if you want to attack a minority group in order to divide and conquer and seize power, getting your hypocritical lies exposed sometimes is just part of the price of doing business. Also excellent points janet and benmurphy.

“What I find extremely disturbing about this story is that he was arrested for merely tapping his foot.”
Um … Bernard … you forgot to mention that he PLEAD GUILTY. He wasn’t just “arrested for tapping his foot.” He was arrested, and then admitted to, lewd conduct.
What is amazing is that you are so blind to the actual facts, that you cannot admit to yourself that he PLEAD GUILTY and is now on probation, a sentence he accepted when he PLEAD GUILTY to lewd conduct.
He isn’t just accused … he’s admitted the accusation by pleading guilty, paying a fine, accepting probation and a suspended sentence.
Nobody is making allegations here. It’s settled. It’s proven. He proved it by pleading guilty.
What is so hard about this? Why are some blind to the FACT that this guy was in that bathroom soliciting anonymous sex from other men, in violation of the law?

Republican hypocrites sicken me. This guy denies gays their rights in public, and then solicits gay sex in private. Hey – maybe the GOP can call Ken Starr to investigate HIS sex life, too. Or does the GOP only engage in sexual witch hunts against Democrats? Bunch of lying hypocrites. I will never vote for a Republican again as long as I live. SHAME

Send this Republican gayboy to jail. ROFL

Why are Republican hypocrites always so obsessed with everybody else’s sex lives when their own are such a mess? Hey GOP – mind your OWN damn business and stay out of everybody else’s bedrooms (and public restrooms, too, for that matter)! ROFL

Tap three times on the white-tile if ya waaant me. Twice on the stall if the answer is no, Oh my sweetness!

Ain’t it wonderful… Roy Cohn, give’s a call….

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