Larry Craig a politician?

Question

We all know politicians are the biggest liars on the planet,so how are we supposed ti beleive him when he says.
Iam not gay?

your guilty Craig your a ****** and you know it and you need medical attention

Answer 1

So what if he's gay? As long as it doesn't imped him in his duties as a Senator why should you worry?

Answer 2

Many have argued that Craig was hypocritical for being gay (though he denies it) and voting for the Defense of Marriage Act which made it so that gay marriage in one state would not have to mean gay marriage in another. I don't think that's a persuasive argument since there is no logical reason that gay people cannot oppose gay marriage.

Unquestionably one group of people has been hypocritical here. Not the Republicans or the Democrats. The most hypocritical group in all this has been the self-described mainstream (actually liberal) media.

Is this really worthy of the press attention it has received this week? I just can't imagine a Democratic member of Congress being subjected to the same treatment if the facts, as we know them so far, were identical.

If Democratic Sen. X's hypothetical arrest ever made it into the papers — doubtful, unless the senator chose to make it public — I suspect the tone of the coverage would be rather different than Sen. Craig's treatment.

I can just imagine the Washington Post inveighing against police entrapment and homophobia and demanding that the private sex lives of politicians remain private unless their behavior involved an abuse of their official duties.


On the one hand, the media generally regards sexual orientation as a private matter, moreover one that is morally neutral. But because Sen. Craig is a conservative, although not someone who has had a history of gay-bashing, the media have had no qualms about violating his privacy. Indeed, Craig's home newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, spent five months delving into the senator's sex life.

Sen. Craig's political career is probably over. The abuse of power, however, was not Sen. Craig's but the media's, who pick and choose whose privacy they will violate on a partisan basis.


This is not merely a hypothetical. The same liberal elite who are today denouncing the "deviant" Larry Craig were also the same ones who excused the aberrant sexual behavior of former president Bill Clinton. How many times were we subjected to self-righteous harangues about how investigations into whether Clinton solicited sex from subordinates (thereby cheating on his wife) were intrusions into his "personal life?"

Where were today's guardians of moral and political rectitude back in 1969 when Democrat Ted Kennedy drove a car off a bridge with Mary Jo Kopechne in it? Where were the liberal media outcries to kick Democrat Barney Frank out of the Congress when he solicited a gay prostitute who in turn set up shop in his apartment?

This litany could go on and on. The point remains: Democratic sexual indiscretions are OK while Republicans' are not. This double standard should not exist in a media that are as fair as they pretend to be.

Answer 3

He got caught with his pants off, literally, so he has to face the music. I heard the conversation between Craig & the security officer he was trying to solicit sex with, on CNN. Craig did a great tapdance through all of it. His resignation is just the beginning of his downfall. No wonder Americans don't trust the politicians.

Answer 4

Senator Craig is a good example of why LGBT should not be ashamed or discouraged to be themselves. Although, He should have kept it out of the Bathroom. Because of his upbringin shaming homosexuals, he likely had to have repressed those feelings, even hating what he is to the hilt.

Larry Craig is a politician. Does not matter what he does with his personal life, but does he do his job well? If he does, if he is effective, if people still want him in office, he should not have resigned.

Answer 5

Great isnt it - this perv appears on TV all smiley and joking as if what he done was hunky dorry....Nothing wrong with him being Gay - but poofing it off in public Loo's is not acceptable behaviour for anyone never mind a respected politician... I think Craig should be castrated..imagine if your - young Son - had been using the Loo and in waltzes Craig - looking for a depraved act..? grrr..these people make my blood boil..

Answer 6

From what I've read of the man, was not that he might be homosexual that bothered people, but that he was such a hypocrite.
He voted time and time again against gay rights.

Answer 7

He really should have pled not guilty, didn't he learn that somewhere a long the lines of politics? The hypocrite.. he caught himself up with useless babble and I was shocked by his behavior on tape.

Answer 8

He made a bad choice, he's obviously paying the consequences now, as is his family.

Answer 9

Uh, news flash, he's old news, he's been kicked out, it's over. At least the republicans send our perverts away unlike the democrats.

Answer 10

Gross.

He needs a bullet. Gay AND a politician!!! Sicko