Well it seems Larry Craig and Michael Vick have many things in common:
• “screwed the pooch” is an interesting way to describe their transgressions
• They both have the same lawyer
• They both have the same chance of ever pursuing their current careers ever again.
Um what?
Hmm… gives a whole new meaning to the term “service dog”.
Well, I’m not about to touch the concept of someone living in his own private Idaho.
But when the hell did Idaho annex Oregon?? (Not, I suppose, that that would make much difference. . .)
There’s at least a few gay sympathy votes in Idaho. Not many, but a few. I’ve managed to land in the one county in the state that’d have more than a couple. And I’d never heard of him before this, having arrived in Idaho just last month. It provides an interesting view on the place for a newcomer.
I’d have felt for him a bit if he’d said, “All right…fine, I admit it, I’m gay. I’ve been hiding it for decades, but too much has happened for me to deny it anymore.” As it was, his screeching, “I’M NOT GAY! NO WAY! I’M NOT GAY!” just pisses me off. Dude. It wouldn’t be the end of the world, you know, to just admit it to yourself instead of having this sort of crap happen, now would it?
Well, probably 10%, just like anyplace in the country.
But since the last US Census, 7 years ago, reported 1,873 same-sex couples in Idaho, there are probably at least 3700 such votes. And that’s only the couples that are open enough to list themselves as same-sex couples on a government form. There may be more who are not that open.
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Now that is just bizarre. I could sorta understand it if the Democrats had a shot at capturing the seat, but as I understand it, the Republican governor will appoint the replacement (and an election in heavily-Republican Idaho would likely result in the same thing).
Everyone was saying that the sooner Craig drops out of public view, the better for him, his family, and his party.
The article says Specter advised Craig to keep fighting – you getting ready to switch parties, Arlen?
With as quickly as his party is trying to dump him, I would guess that he may not particularly care what’s in their best interest.
Still, it would be really stupid and would just continue to draw things out for him and his family. I have to laugh at him, because of his hypocracy, but you would wish he would have a little more decency than to keep embarrassing his family.
His wife had to know all those years ago that if you make a deal with the devil there’s a good chance you’ll get burned. She’s not the first single mother to get offered support and society in exchange for living a lie. But I do think her kids probably had no idea what was going on.
The Specter angle is interesting to me. My take is that Specter has been strong-armed by the religious right for years and now this is his chance to rub their face in the yellow snow, so to speak. I think that the price Specter had to pay for his leadership positions is to roll over for some judicial appointees that he might otherwise find too extreme. Now he gets a chance for some comeuppance. Could a Craig re-election campaign make the Idaho Senate race competitive? Not being close to that state’s politics, I don’t know.
Perhaps Senator Craig was also thinking that late night comedians just might need a little more comedic material. (I mean, if you could find a situation such as this humorous). 
And let’s not rush to judgment concerning Senator Craig. - He’s not gay you know.
Maybe, maybe not. I think he won with nearly 70% of the vote. Normally, a mortal lock to get re-elected. Probably, any Republican candidate but him would still be a mortal lock. Him? Who knows? Enough doubt for his party to want to push him out the door.
My theory is that ABC has a reality-show deal with him. One of their sitcoms will get cancelled after three episodes, and then it’s “Larry Craig’s Wide Stance.”
The door to the cosmic dryer opens once more… (pleasepleaseplease)
• First Craig denies the allegation (and maybe the alligator 
) and swears he’ll stay in office.
• Then he decides it’s best to resign.
• Soon after that he considers negating his resignation.
• Today, he announced he is resigning.
And in a related story, here is Chris Jansing of MSNBC asking an anthropology professor to explain the phenomenon of restroom sex:
Here’s a youtube link to that insightful quote:
dumb ass quote
Well, I suppose with that anthropological revelation, I guess Senator Craig isn’t gay, just as he said.
Yes, and my car isn’t a car. It’s an internal-combustion-engine-driven steel and plastic vehicle on pneumatic ground-contact devices.