Larry Craig is a Republican Senator from Idaho and like Mark Foley, David Vitter, and others, Craig exemplifies the hypocrisy of the Republican Party. Craig, an outspoken critic of gay rights, had voted against civil unions for homosexuals, against gays serving in the military, against a bill that would stop discrimination against gays in the workplace. He has run on high moral values and preaches the conservative issues, even going as far as calling President Clinton, "a naughty boy" in 1999:
"Bad boy Bill Clinton, your a naughty boy, the American people already know Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy, I speak for the people of my state who probably even think Bill Clinton is a nasty, bad, naughty boy".
Wow, I must admit that statement is the gayest thing in politics I have ever heard, but in all seriousness, if your wondering what hypocrisy on Larry Craig's part I'm referring to, its the fact that he plead guilty to "lewd conduct" in a men's restroom in a Minneapolis airport. Here's a report from an undercover policeman who was in the stall in the bathroom trying to catch people like Sen. Craig, as the bathroom is apparently a public place where homosexuals go for homosexual activity:
"At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot.... The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area. Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times." Craig then handed the undercover officer his business card and said, "What do you think about that?"
As I stated, Craig plead guilty to disorderly conduct, but now says that all this was a lie, a misunderstanding, and he blames, get this, gay people and the newspaper that broke the story, The Idaho Statesman. My only question is can hypocrisy go any further for the Republican Party? Craig is the second man this summer, after Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter, to be involved in a sex scandal. While I do believe what is a person's personal life, should stay a private, when someone runs a campaign on his conservative values, in this case that involves being anti-gay, that candidate brings his private life into the public. If your going to run on your conservative family values, fine, but then you need to show that you embody those values. I'm hoping that Americans are realizing that the Republicans are not the good, ethical, squeaky clean, family value candidates they portray themselves to be. They are hypocrites who lie to the public to get elected and hopefully in '08, America will send them a message loud and clear and not re-elect them----showing them that no politician is going to get away with lying anymore!
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Let me clarify a small thing that bothered me about your post. Homosexuals don't go to public restrooms to meet homosexuals. We have plenty of avenues to meet each other. The restroom avenue is used by closeted gays or married bisexuals who want indiscreet sex. If they came out of their closets, they would be welcome in the same places that other gay people meet... and not just for a quick fix of gay sex.
^ I apologize for offending you, I assure you I didn't mean it as if ALL homosexuals do that. But some do and thats all I meant about it.
No offense taken. I just wanted to set the record straight that the gay community doesn't cruise restrooms for sex. It's the people who try to hide their sexuality (closet cases) and can't admit that they're homosexual who cause the embarrassment for the ones of us who ARE comfortable in our sexuality. Again, no offense taken and I really like your blog.
Well, it seems that foot-tapping Larry, getting no support from anyone in his own party, will resign his position to make room for the next Republican homophobe, who will be appointed by Idaho's Republican governor.
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