The GOP Can't Help It

So another Republican official gets busted for living a lie. Poor Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID). So he wanted to hook up with a stranger in a bathroom. If it were too consenting adults (and not a sting operation) then what's the bother?

Is it because he hypocritically works hard to curtail the rights of out-of-the-closet American homosexuals (per Perez Hilton no less)?

* Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)

* Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)

* Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)

* Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)

* Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)

Is it because he previously demonized the very behavior in which we was engaged?

"This sordid fact of homosexual life surfaced yesterday in an AP article yesterday that reports on the number of arrests police have made for indecent exposure and public sex acts in the restrooms at Atlanta’s airport, the busiest in the world. The increased restroom patrols, begun to apprehend luggage thieves, instead uncovered a rash of sex crimes. Airport restrooms have become so popular that men looking for anonymous sexual trysts with other men have advertised their airport availability on Craigslist. One such ad was from a man saying he was stuck at the airport for three hours and was looking for “discreet, quick action.”

Is it because he hypocritically censured President Bill Clinton for his sexual transgression?

Craig: It’s a, bad boy, Bill Clinton. You’re a naughty boy. The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy.

Or is because he attempted to use his position as U.S. Senator to secure favorable treatment?

Craig "handed the plainclothes sergeant who arrested him a business card that identified him as a U.S. Senator and said, 'What do you think about that?'"

Wow, another scandal for the GOP. Between bribery in Alaska, criminal war without end and closeted ideologues, they are The National Enquirer of American politics. With those mags you just know, it can always get worse.

His constituents want him out, his come-on is being re-enacted by newspeople, he going to have to enter some sort of sexual re-orientation camp.

I'm with Kos, very funny, on this:

To me, it's pretty obvious that every conservative anti-gay extremist is gay. If you're not gay, you don't sit around obsessing over gay sex.

If you sit around obsessing about gay sex, then you're gay. It's that simple.

If they came out of the closet once and for all, they'd be much happier and so would we.

Perhaps that's why Craig did this sort of self-destructive and dangerous behavior -- he hoped to get caught, because then he would no longer need to keep up the charade. And now, after Craig rides off into the sunset, perhaps he'll find the peace and self-acceptance that every human being deserves. Too bad he had to be a member of the party which reviles that which he truly is.

Free yourself, Senator Craig. Free the people, free all the people, to be who they really are.

Even Larry Craig.