Just remember, like any Washington lobbyist, Senator Larry Craig “can buy and sell your ass a thousand times over”.
[posted by Justin Levine]
This is admittedly a ‘he said, he said’ allegation, but I tend to believe it.
[Most major news outlets are reporting on this story from the Idaho Statesman, but amazingly, they all managed to leave out the best quotes. What the hell are these editors smoking? If you are going to report on dirt, then GIVE US THE DIRT!]
They say the secret to being wealthy is paying less for something than you could (Rich folks saving money at Wal-Mart and all that).
That would explain why he was in a public bathroom instead of, you know…
Getting a male hooker.
Scott Jacobs (e3904e) — 12/3/2007 @ 5:48 amComing Soon — Larry Clark The Musical: Can’t Stop the Toe-Tapping !
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 6:20 am“Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can’t be disproved…”
I don’t have any sympathy for Craig, but how does one disprove any allegation of personal conduct? This is more salacious gossip than news reporting.
tmac (5408eb) — 12/3/2007 @ 6:42 amHey, we needs ta know, we needs ta know.
Maybe we don’t.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) (5283ce) — 12/3/2007 @ 6:55 amAnd I’m sure you felt the very same way about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 8:24 amSeem to recall DNA evidence in that Clinton/Lewinsky thing. That does tend to prove and/or disprove allegations Dave.
Uncle Pinky (3c2c13) — 12/3/2007 @ 8:33 amWhy is it that people think Clinton Lewinsky was about sex? It was about the president and his staff busily condemning lewinsky as a deranged stalker, about the most powerful man in the world exploiting an unpaid teenage intern for sex, it was about lying to us and in court, and it was about all those other women that had made the same damn accusation and been tarred and feathered. It’s just not good that that administration was so brutal and had no morality to it whatsoever.
Why is that about the sex? I think it’s about the abuse. Is Craig a bad fella? yeah, and perhaps he’s as bad as clinton in many respects. Sounds like it.
you know damn well that there was an implicit threat that anyone who spoke out about clinton would have the federal government attack them. As Linda Tripp, who was abused by the pentagon and sued for $600,000 of taxpayer money.
Would Craig do that? I don’t know… maybe. Clinton actually did do it.
Dustin (538b80) — 12/3/2007 @ 9:03 amI love how the liberals who will defend pretty much any degenerate, who can smell “homophobia” 10,000 miles away, think it is GREAT to go after a suspected GOP queer. It goes to show that gay and liberal activists care not about protecting or supporting gays, they are all about the socialism. They throw Oreo cookies at Black Republicans, call Thomas “Uncle Tom” and “inarticulate”, they call the women molested by Clinton “Trailer Trash who wanted it”, and now instead of showing caring for Craig, and how tough it must be to have the door to his closet blown, they seek to hound him into a corner.
NOTHING is a vicious as a self-rightous liberal.
PS, I hate Craig for his stand on immigration and pork. I was hoping he would just fade into the sunset because of this.
Mr.Obvious (d3fe32) — 12/3/2007 @ 9:22 amFour gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can’t be disproved
If I put in writing the activities that I caught the editor of the Idaho Statesman newspaper engaging in with my pet Rottweiler, will they report it in their newspaper if “the allegations can’t be disproved”?
j curtis (8bcca6) — 12/3/2007 @ 9:32 amBecause it was.
Need I remind you of what Larry Craig said about Bill Clinton?
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 9:32 amDO we have to remind you of what Clinton floated about Monika, that she was a “star struck stalker”?
Craig is an ass.
But how liberal gays are piling on him shows how liberal gays are just leftists with a gimmick.
Mr.Obvious (d3fe32) — 12/3/2007 @ 9:56 amWell ya gotta have a gimmick, “Mr. Obvious.”
In the immortal words of Stephen Sondheim,
“Once I was a schleppa,
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 10:27 amNow I’m Miss Mazeppa.”
What is amazing to me is that people act as if there is doubt about Craig. Bottom line: no one starts doing stall footsie at age 62. No one. He likes sex with guys. Not that there anything wrong with that (other than his marriage vows and the embarassment he has brought on his wife/kids), but he was no rookie in the Mpls Airport stall. And it is unseemly for him to deny what is obvious to all.
Law (62ca0c) — 12/3/2007 @ 12:28 pmShouldn’t it read – Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can’t be PROVED?
daleyrocks (906622) — 12/3/2007 @ 12:36 pmThey’re no his kids. They’re her kids by her first husband. She was someone who worked for him who he decided to marry in ’82 in the wake of the page scandal.
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 12:36 pmDavid, I believe that he adopted the children.
Law (62ca0c) — 12/3/2007 @ 1:13 pmYes, but their not his blood issue. Every time the stories say “Larry Craig’s wife and children,” the uninformed are led to believe that he is their biological father. This is no small point.
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 1:28 pmDavid–you are officially an idiot. The law treats adopted children as the children of the adoptive parent. The media have every right to parrot that treatment. How is the children’s adoptive status remotely relevant.
Law (62ca0c) — 12/3/2007 @ 1:53 pm1. Monica Lewinsky was not a teenager.
Andrew J. Lazarus (7d46f9) — 12/3/2007 @ 2:19 pm2. I think the point about the children being adopted is that, unlike biological children, they don’t imply that Craig has had marital relations with his wife.
Andrew, that is the rankest of rank speculation.
Law (62ca0c) — 12/3/2007 @ 2:36 pmActually the rankest was when my minds eye wondered about Craig having relations with his wife… or anyone… not a pretty picture.
Clinton brought disrespect to the White House. Kennedy smuggled in Marilyn Monroe. Clinton? Lewinsky.
Jeez, Bill; talk about an underachieving President… the woman that the salacious media pegs as Hillary’s lover is way hotter than Monica.
I’ve seen realtors with hotter interns than Monica
SteveG (4e16fc) — 12/3/2007 @ 4:20 pmWe have no way of knowing if Mr. and Mrs. Craig have ever had sexual relations with one another.
To claim that they have is rank speculation.
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 4:25 pmTo claim that David Ehrenstein has a brain is the rankest of rank speculation.
McGehee (25adee) — 12/3/2007 @ 7:50 pmIt is just fine to trash a Republican if they are teh ghey, because of the hypocrisy, or some other type of BS. Once they stray from the plantation, they are fair game.
JD (2c9284) — 12/3/2007 @ 8:54 pmI left the plantation
David Ehrenstein (4f5f08) — 12/3/2007 @ 9:30 pmquite some time ago, though you may long for the days when uppity negroes like me knew their place.
Yup, that David E, a real free and independent thinker. Heck, he is probably undecided, as he is keeping such an open mind. CNN – get this clown on your next debate.
JD (2c9284) — 12/3/2007 @ 9:53 pm