Craig Decides to Stay on as GOP Senator

LOL Sorry, Larry. You can run, but you can’t hide. Come out, come out, wherever you are!!! You’ll be a happier man when you just come clean to your wife, kids and the world that you’re a middle-aged gay man. It’s not that hard. Just say it. “I’m gay.” See how easy that was? Now find yourself a nice man to settle down with, and stop cruising public men’s rooms, ok?

I liked that,lol…thanx for the humor Scott…heehaw

whew. glad that’s over.
now we can move on…
NEXT!!!

Nice job of “Photoshopping” him in over the pic of the bathroom stalls, LOL. ABC does it again! Can you say professional?

What a jerk – Craig, so he wanted some man sex at a stay over, big deal. We all do things we do not get caught for! To deny it is simply stupid, and unfair to everyone involved. You are an elected official for freak sake! The facts are undeniable that he was crusing, so what! Stop giving gay people a bad name!

good … i’m glad he is having to face the consequences of his actions .. but to those of you referring “religious, reblicans that just need to come out”, stop stereotyping & putting everyone into the same category … not all religious republicans are closet gays … Thank God!

Yeah.. LCING…. great idea! A president who caves to “socialist pressure”! That’ll shake things up alright.
I was waiting to hear your bit about the Easter Bunny but i guess it got cut off by some glitch.

So what says Senator Craig? Didn’t he have a comment?

Well, if his career is over, he can always try out on broadway as a tap dancer! I’m sure he’d be great with that. Larry, Larry, Larry, you may have fooled your family in thinking you’r the victim of a witch hunt, but the we males both gay and straight, know that wide guy or skinny guy, you don’t stick your foot into the other stall and and touch the other guys foot and start tappin’. Just face it, you’re a hypocrit and a queen! Just come out already so we can move on.

Who cares if he’s gay or not? None of the gay people I know cruise airport bathrooms for anonymous sex. If he were looking for a female prostitute it would be just as illegal. The whole “gay” thing is just a red herring.
The real issue is that this man shows no signs of leadership, was caught in an illegal act, knowingly pled guilty to it (two months later, so no “late for my flight” defense is plausible), and lied about it to police, his family, and his constituents.
And for anyone who thinks it’s normal or explainable to peek between the cracks into occupied stalls in a men’s restroom, rub up against your neighbors feet, or lean down underneath the stalls– please don’t sit in the next stall to me.

my my … and this guy was elected twice by conservative republicans and supported by the religious right … and who are they going to support now?

His senate staff missed a golden opportunity for Sen.Craig to go public and say: I was only REACHING out to my gay constituents and trying to understand their POSITIONS. case closed…next

The most important lesson this whole affair teaches is how easy it would be under our system to set someone up.
First: Larry Craig went into a men’s room stall and spread his legs a bit too wide and his feet entered another stall. A bit wierd, I’ll admit, but the last time I checked–not a crime.
Second: Larry Craig allegedly picked up a piece of paper from the floor. A bit wierd, I’ll admit, but the last time I checked–not a crime.
Third: Larry Craig allegedly put his hand under the stall. Again, a bit wierd, I’ll admit, but not a crime.
The arresting officer alleges that these moves constitute signals that the person making them is seeking sexual favors. Can you prove that Sen. Craig knew that and it was his intention to send said signals? Or was this a set-up from the word, “Go”?
I do not know if Sen. Craig is homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual or what, or that he knew in advance what these “signals” meant. At this time it is no crime to be either, however, there are those holding religious views who would describe some of these sexual preferences as sinful. The point here is to illustrate how you or I could be set up by a scenario like this and accused of sending signals we may not have known anything about. Though many of us would want a Senator with better judgement, unless the police can prove Sen. Craig knew what those actions meant–they don’t have a case. Period.
One final question: Suppose instead of Larry Craig in that stall making those alleged moves, it was you? What happens when the shoe is on the other foot?

How can you say he is not gay? He was playing footsie, waving and giving the cop the thumbs up from underneath the stall.

What’s funny is that we’re all so shocked when a Republican does something like this, but we expect it from a Democrat!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Ted Kennedy outright killed a woman and he’s still in Congress!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We are doomed.

Just resign and do us all a favor.

The real problem with the Craig issue is that apparently no one has taken 5 minutes to read the [1]transcript [2] the report that the Sgt had a lady prepare [3] the report that the Sgt completed and [4] the exact charges by the State of Minnesota against Craig.
It would appear that someone wanted Craig out of the political arena for over one year in Idaho or perhaps from Washington through the Idaho newspaper. Articles produced by the newspaper never had any conclusive evidence of ANY wrongdoing by Craig – but they went from month to month attempting over and over to present undocumented arguments to that favor. The only REAL PERSON that they mentioned was a Gay Activist that has been trying to pop Craig for years due to legislation that Craig approved that was not in agreeance with the gay community. Even the reporter from the newspaper almost broke up when CNN’s reporter tried to get him to give any of the evidence that he had when he wrote the article that got this whole debacle started in the first place. Really, why do the Republicans want Craig fried.
If you are of an opinion that INNOCENT UNTIL “PROVEN” GUILTY, then the media should refrain from entering the “gotcha” pulpit. This is a weird example of ALL OF THE MEDIA declaring to the PUBLIC that Craig was guilty within just a few minutes of hitting the tube. Every channel had him “guilty as sin” with no exception of “better take even one minute to examine the charges and also investigate the surface of the allegations by the officer”.
That transcript leaves a lot for even the simple “gotcha” reporter to determine that Craig was guilty without trial.
You betcha he erred in his thinking that “he had a problem and wanted it to just go away” – archaic thinking that it would just go away, but indeed he had a problem. Whether his REAL PROBLEM was REAL or not will probably never be known.
Again, I ask any of you to attempt to SIT ON THE STOOL TO THE LEFT OF THE OFFICER – PUT YOUR LEFT HAND UNDER THE RIGHT BOTTOM PANEL – without destroying your integrity. The officer said he SAW HIS HAND – LARRY ASKED HOW BECAUSE WHAT THE OFFICER WAS REFERRING TO [THE RING ON CRAIG'S FINGER] WAS ON LARRY’S LEFT HAND.
Also, be fair minded y’all and stand at the front of the stall – PEEK in through the 3/4″ opening and ask the person 40″ away to tell you what color your eyes are. Of course, the officer said he could see the “blue” in Larry Craig’s eyes. Apparently the officer has greater than 20/20.
Doesn’t it seem a bit irrational that when Craig walked into the room that ALL STALLS WERE OCCUPIED – and within 3 minutes, only ONE stall vacated – NEXT TO THE OFFICER. And THEN almost immediately when Craig sat his body down –ALL STALLS VACATED and then there were no more people in any of the stalls during the fiasco. Must have been a weird restroom.
You may gather from the foregoing that there is some doubt that Craig is guilty. Rather than sling stones, try INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
NO ONE has attempted to let that omen be included in their thinking. For some reason or other – the media has convinced ALL WHO READ-HEAR-SEE “CRAIG IS GUILTY”. There can be no doubt in any mind that Craig [a human also] is guilty and the Officer [a human also] is to be believed over the Craig rebuttal –without any investigation. If you believe that ALL OFFICERS OF THE LAW relate in their claims the truth and nothing but the truth –there is a man at the other end of the block that a left handed monkey wrench that you may decide you need.
Mindsets are easy – lawful- and accommodating to those who choose to shove the stuff past the nose of the person who wants THE FAIRNESS PRINCIPLE to be used in their case – and in the case of any person charged without actual and factual evidence.
There are only two who really know if Craig is guilty – Larry Craig and God. Those who want to play God – go at it. Craig can only play his own part – no one dares contest the other.

After seeing the police report, there’s no indication that the officer was making anything up. Craig stood outside the stall and peered through the crack a VERY long time. He lifted his foot and placed it on the officer’s foot, not just making side to side contact. He ran his left hand (his no ring finger) under the bottom of the stall wall dividing the toilets. These are all classic cruising behaviors.

Okay, I don’t think the gay community really wants to claim him. So go home have sex with your wife and then everyone can claim you are heterosexual-because you had sex with a women.

OUTSTANDING! When conservative Idaho voters go to the polls they will look at their ballot and have to choose between a Democrat they don’t know or a Republican they don’t know…and after Larry Craig…they just may choose to change direction. I love it.

Larry Craig is gay. He plead guilty to a crime of attempting to solicit sex from a MAN in a public restroom. You cannot admit to being gay any more than than other than putting on the pink shoes and tap dancing across the television screen with that little furry guy that does the sweating with the oldies crap. I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with being gay, I’m saying that there is something wrong with DENYING you are gay when everyone on the entire planet KNOWS you are gay. Larry, you have been denying you are gay for YEARS. Why is this? Why would you have to deny such a thing for so long if you were not in fact Gay or Bisexual or a pervert of some kind that likes to pick up strange men (and nasty bits of urine soaked paper) in public bathrooms? You plead Guilty to “make it go away”. WHAT? How is that going to make it go away? If you are not trying to finally admit somehow that you are indeed gay by pleading guilty, what were you thinking? Wide stance, yeah right. you knew the game and how it is played and you stepped right in and dealt your hand. JUST ADMIT IT and get over it! Admitting you are gay will be less earth-shattering than all your pandering and whimpering and whining that you are not gay. Get it over with.

Correcting my horrible typing:
I meant to say “You cannot admit to being gay any more than that, other than putting on the pink shoes and tap dancing across the television screen with that little furry guy that does the sweating with the oldies crap”

GIVE ME A BREAK !
All this talk about a set up because he’s a bigotted anti-gay hating hyprocrite. It’s probably true that the police set him up by sitting in a stall knowing that he would get into a airport, choose a bathroom completely out of the way and know to be “cruisy”, know that he would choose a stall, know that he would choose the “right” stall, know he would peek into the stall, know he would rub his hand under the stall wall, know he would “pick up toilet paper” all at the right time. That is one smart police force to be able to put that together.

I agree with GiveMeABreak, except that the main thing here is that the police were in that restroom arresting perverts because of complaints made by other men that had been hit on way before Larry the Gay GOP even arrived at the airport. This had been an ongoing problem, and Larry walked right in and dropped his pants. Seriously, how much more guilty can that be? Larry’s gay. Yep. Gay Gay Gay. That’s what Larry is. Look at the pictures of him and his “wife” while he’s crying to the press that he’s NOT GAY. You can see it in her eyes.

Let’s get it ‘straight’ once and for all (pun intended). It matter not on the personally intimate level whether Senator Craig is gay, bisexual, and/or straight for that’s really a very personal matter that he seems unwilling to deal with. However, his self-hatred and extreme psychological pathology manifests itself in such a way as to do damage to other people. That is, it’s the ‘pathology’ that then manifests itself in the way he votes on issues that affect gay etc., people. For that reason and that reason alone this man is a danger to society and, perhaps even more importantly, to his wife and children. They may go blindly along with his espousing that he’s ‘straight’, but, surely they must intuitively know that this man that’s so very close to them is sick. The ‘sickness’ further manifests itself, beyond the self-hatred, in his facility to lie. He says he’ll resign if there is no decision reversal by the Minnesota judge and yet he does not. Further, he’s narcissistic to the point of indifference when it comes to the greater good and the opinion of his peers. Despite all the the pressure for the sick Senator to leave office – he won’t because it’s only his ego he cares about and, other than that, he’s emotionally frigid.

Does anyone really believe he won’t run again when his term is up? He has lied about everything else.

The poor Repubs… getting set up by the evil God-hating liberal police and the evil God-hating liberal press. Spending all that money on their ’cause’. Geez you’d think they were Dems with all that whining…
What a joke. There is no conspiracy. He was busted trying to commit a lewd act in a public restroom. He should grow some and own up to it rather than admitting to it, then denying it, then resigning, then unresigning, then making more lame excuses. What a poor excuse for a leader, gay or straight.

We think he is effectively in love with another senator or three and a couple underage male pages, so leave him alone. Don’t ask don’t tell is the RNC leadership motto, approved by Cheney and Bush.

I love it. Another nail in the GOP coffin in 2008. It just don’t get any better than this.Another REPUBLICAN LIAR like BUSH and CHENEY..The entire Republican Party is ROTTEN to the core. core.We need more Republican scandals.
The more the better.The GOP is going to be out of power for the next 50 years with the likes of the Republican MORONS in Washington today….Thanks.

Surprise, surprise! Why do I want to believe Senator Craig? He doth protest too many times to be believable.
I would not be upset if he were or were not gay. I find this whole episode just one more lie to himself, family and the American people. I am tired of dishonest politicians.

Larry Craig is a typical, hypocritical, power-hungry, lying Republican. They’ll do anything, legal or illegal, to gain and keep power. If that sleazy, disgraceful bigot doesn’t resign his office, the Senate should throw him out. That phony just voted against extending hate crime protection to homosexuals too. He doesn’t want them to have “special rights.” (even though he himself is one) Meanwhile, religion is already covered by hate crimes laws. So if a Christian is victimized because he or she is a Christian, they are protected by hate crimes laws. I guess it’s OK for them to have “special rights”. What a bunch of scumbags Republicans are.