Overheard in a Public Restroom in Minnesota

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I da ho?... Naw. You da ho!!
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Very bad judgment on Senator Larry Craig's part, bad in so many ways. For one thing, boasting to the officer about being a Senator suggests he's used his prestige and privilege to skate through compromising situations in the past. The Romney campaign did the smart and right thing to distance itself from him.

But should he resign? Predictably, many conservative pundits think so: Hewitt, Malkin, Hawkins, Musclehead, Gay Patriot, and probably more. If GOP talent is waiting in the wings to be appointed or can run next year for the seat, then maybe. But if Craig can get his priorities straight, there are good reasons for him to fight to keep his office: on the one hand, Democratic pols like Gerry Studds, Ted and Patrick Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and dozens more; on the other, next year's razor-tight race for the Senate. Republicans sucking their teeth and shaking their heads doesn't have to be the end of the affair. Regardless of what play the Republican huddle comes up with, they still have to do an end-run around being hung out to dry for some MSM-labeled "conservative crisis."

McGreevey resigned, but his affair had compromised New Jersey and national security. Craig has corrupted many things, breaking (in affairs of the heart) laws more unwritten than written, but so far as we know, not national security. Still, if he has a closet-full of skeletons ready to be thrown open (insinuations of secretive gay relationships or trysts, including with pages, have dogged him for years), he should think long and hard about why and how to fight for his office.

I know! Maybe next year he'll run for re-election as an independent. It worked for Joe Lieberman....
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* Update * Chris Crain weighs in with circumspection (and also a legal opinion):

The gay and leftie blogosphere is, of course, gleeful, as is practically every gay person I've talked to in the early hours after the scandal broke....  I just don't understand why we don't see the contradictions in how we cheer on the politics of personal destruction, however self-inflicted.

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FTR, the arresting officer's report.

Comments

[Thomas F Anderson]

"But should he resign?...If GOP talent is waiting in the wings to be appointed or can run next year for the seat, then maybe."

I agree that Mr. Craig probably shouldn't resign, but I disagree with your reasoning. Having GOP talent waiting in the wings should have nothing to do with whether he resigns or not. But it should have more to do with solid principles related to the nature of the crime.

For more on this, please read the essay at the following link:
http://the-independent13.blogspot.com/2007/07/should-jefferson-and-vitter-resign.html

[JMK]

Thanks for the link and for visiting.