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Area bloggers react to Larry Craig

August 28, 2007 |  6:18 pm
Hugh Hewitt:
I realize that I did not say this about Senator Vitter, but Craig's behavior is so reckless and repulsive that an immediate exit is required.
Kevin Drum, noting that a Vitter resignation (unlike Craig) would likely produce a Democratic senator, says:
Lots of conservative bloggers, following Hugh Hewitt's lead, have called for Larry Craig to resign even though they didn't call for David Vitter to resign when he was outed for visiting prostitutes last month. [...] Of course conservatives are turning against Craig secure in the knowledge that they're running no actual political risk.
Tammy Bruce:
Well, not only are not all gay men engaging in tawdry bathroom sex with strangers, not all gay people think "hate crimes" legislation is good idea, either. Some of us would rather not become the establishment Thought Police, with laws that position some people as more equal, more important, than others.
Boi From Troy:
Meanwhile my straight friends are having trouble understanding that tapping one’s foot would constitute a solicitation of a sexual encounter. I had to explain that from places like Frankfurt Airport in the tunnel beteen terminals B and C on the train station level below the USO to the USC Campus on the second floor of Waite-Phillips Hall, some restrooms have a reputation of being cruisy and any such gestures can be interpreted as such…especially for those who were around before the internets were the main vehicle for arranging anonymous sex.
Roger L. Simon:
Human sexuality could be called the world's epicenter of hypocrisy. And the intolerance of this gay man in the Senate toward other gay people is mean and almost sadistic. He should resign, not for his behavior in the bathroom, but for his creepy political phoniness.
And Glenn Greenwald has a post too long to bother excerpting, filled with quotes and links from right-wing commentators (including Jonah Goldberg) from before the November 2006 election, after Craig had been "outed" by journalist Mike Rogers.

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1.

Hugh Hewitt, where was your outrage when Teddy Kennedy drove Mary Jo off the Chattahockie Bridge? Then, he swam to shore (probably floated is more accurate--oh, the visual); went home; then, the next day, he returns to the scene of his crime. Fact, where is your outrage, today? Selective outrage! PS: How is William Jefferson, democrat-Louisiana doing these days?
Hugh, you do this country a Selective dis-Service. Hairless Harry Reid, democrat-Nevada...any dirty land deals you don't want to talk about?

2.

Maybe Craig and Barney Frank (let's not forget him) are at the forefront of the
Zero Population Growth movement; maybe the lodge hall was previously booked for their meeting.

3.

he thinks we're stupid....why else would Craig pretend other than to tell the truth. ..it is the lie that is disgusting...we know what you did...we know who you are...how hard it must be to do the right thing and stand for something...we already know you have no integrity as you would find yourself in a bathroom attempting to solicit sex from other than your wife...so much for the sanctity of marriage that you espouse so eloquently...i was reminded of Kevin Kline in In and Out, "I'M NOT GAY."...no you are not...you are a closet homosexual who has never addressed his sexuality and you continue to avoid the issues...at least tell your wife the truth and let her decide if you are worth her time...we'll just continue to be stupid to you.



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