[mike777]

War, what War?
Darfur? Genocide?

This whole 24 hour news on the Craig story sort of surprises me.

Basically a married person, Craig, is accused of making a pass at what he thought was another willing and consenting adult. Be a bit of a hypocrite or lie about it....Huge News!


All those who never told a lie or were hypocritical on any issue in their life, please step to this side of the aisle

This is the major story the last few days in the USA.

I guess, rape, rob or murder or steal...not a story.
Make a pass at another adult of the same sex.......Stop the presses, resign, Headlines.

I guess a Senator or President can do anything but try and sleep with a boy, adult boy.

[luke warm]

mike777, on Aug 31 2007, 05:43 PM, said:

I guess a Senator or President can do anything but try and sleep with a boy, adult boy.

as edwin edwards once said (robbed no doubt from someone else) "the only way i can lose this election (against david duke) is if the catch me in bed with a live boy or a dead girl"

[hrothgar]

The Craig story is news for two reasons

1.Its a sex scandal, and sex scandals sell
2.This is yet another classic example of the complete hypocrisy of the “family values” oriented Republican party.

The Republican party has been exploiting homosexuality as a wedge issue for years. Individuals like Craig, Ted Haggard, and Jim West have made careers battling against threat that homosexuals pose to traditional family values. This open bigotry is a defining characteristic of the modern Republican party.

So pardon me if I find it HIGHLY amusing that so many of the Christian culture warriors appear to be over compensating in a vain attempt to repress their own sexuality It don't know what gives me more satisfaction: Finding out that a US Senator was trolling for blow jobs in an airport bathroom or watching the Republic noise machine turn on one of their own.

[mike777]

Heard this one last night.

I think their votes againt gay marriage is misunderstood.
They are against marriage not sex, these guys want to be able to stay single and free.

[helene_t]

I've been puking on the newspapers almost every day since September 11. "War on terror", "Moslem fundamentalism" blah blah blah. Finally a good old fashioned sex scandal for a change.

Of course some real news would be even better but that is obviously too much to ask for.

[pbleighton]

I agree with Richard, but I have a couple of observations:

I'm surprised how quickly and ferociously the Republican Party turned on him. It looks like he will be forced to resign from the Senate. For this? But then, I'm a liberal

I wonder if the reaction would have been as strong if he had come out and said:
"I'm gay" and apologized to everyone?

Peter

[TimG]

pbleighton, on Aug 31 2007, 06:31 PM, said:

I agree with Richard, but I have a couple of observations:

I'm surprised how quickly and ferociously the Republican Party turned on him. It looks like he will be forced to resign from the Senate. For this? But then, I'm a liberal

I wonder if the reaction would have been as strong if he had come out and said:
"I'm gay" and apologized to everyone?

Peter

Apologized for being gay? For hiding it? For his anti-gay positions? For cheating on his wife?

[pbleighton]

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Apologized for being gay? For hiding it? For his anti-gay positions? For cheating on his wife?

Oh, probably all of the above. When politicians go into redemption mode, they don't stop short

Peter

[Winstonm]

Without Paris Hiltion in jail, what other news is there?

[Al_U_Card]

Circus maximus, friends, on the bullet train to decadence.

Now, if this guy had supported gay rights and the whole liberal ethos.....(okay, he wouldn't have been a republican senator....) can a convicted criminal be a senator?

[Winstonm]

It looks like to get a presidential pardon one must suck up to Bush and not simply suck.

[Al_U_Card]

but it helps