I believe that there was a rumor about Craig being outed during the Foley scandal, but it was kept under wraps until his recent arrest. Joe posted an update, questioning whether the Senator was able to keep his arrest hidden from the press and public by suppressing court and police records. Makes you wonder. . . .

I’m not familiar with his record, but since he’s a closeted gay memeber of the GOP from Idaho I’m going to go out on a limb here and say he was a vocal gay bashing “Family Values” type candidate. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I’m beginning to wonder if there are enough such folks in the christian right that they actually deserve some representation in Congress.

In the end, sexual repression doesn’t work, it just forces the perpetrators to go underground, where their acts eventually resurface in the most humiliating and embarassing fashion . Craig is actually lucky that the revelation of his escapade surfaced during a week when Congress is in recess and the rest of Washington is obsessing ad nauseum over Gonzo’s abrupt departure from Justice!

What I find more troubling than Craig’s double life, is his lack of remorse after pleading guilty, and his incredible denial of the facts laid out in his arrest record. According to him, the police totally misunderstood his intent, he wasn’t sending signals to the undercover cop, he has a wide stance (most incredible of all in my book!)blah, blah, blah. He has exposed himself not only as a hypocritical closeted homosexual, but as a craven liar, who would say anything to preserve his career.

Personally, I don’t give two figs about whether or not he has sex in men’s restrooms, but I think the people of Idaho at least deserve someone who can face the truth about their own behavior, instead of issuing such patently false denials on his webpage.
Even Foley, had the grace to apologize to his constituents.

I see the outline for a psychological thriller here.

Mind you, I find the matter amusing myself, but not the scandal so much as the fact that at this point I’m begining to see moralizing grandstanding on “family values” as a sure sign of hidden moral issues. I can certainly appreciate the irony and I have little sympathy for him, since he hypocritically demonized his own to get ahead but I don’t particularly think he should lose his job over a sex-scandal. His wife, certainly, but that’s her decision to make. His job, he should resign if he sees no chance of re-election, but really it should be up to the voters to decide if they want him or not.

Just as McGreevey needed to lose his job, not because he was gay, but because he was corrupt, this man, as long as he does his job well, should keep it, gay or no gay. Of course, it’d be nice if he stopped with the idiodic demonzing.

How much sensitive national-security information could be gotten out of Craig, had he been accommodated by a foreign agent or al Qaeda sympathizer in that airport bathroom?

Or, maybe an operative for some business, political or criminal interest might easily have blackmailed Craig into voting a certain way, and into encouraging other senators to vote a certain way that’s not in the country’s best interest, in return for keeping quiet about his indiscretion.

The lame “he said/he said” defense and all the snickering and finger pointing by people on both sides of the partisan divide all seem focused on Craig’s hypocrisy and his bid for an unseemly sexual encounter. All the more scandalous, these people would have it, because of the obvious homosexual or bisexual nature of the encounter Craig sought.

They reveal a shallowness and junior-high-level fixation that only distracts from what we all should really be concerned about, not only in Craig’s case, but in those of Sen. David Vitter and the others.

Whether Craig is gay, bi or asexual is of no real consequence, where his ability to serve his state and the country in the Senate are concerned. What matters is how he conducts himself, how he regards his position of high responsibility and how he honors the trust of the people who elected him. On all those scores, Craig comes up badly lacking.

So badly lacking that Craig should indeed resign, pronto.

The Boston Globe reports tonight that Senator Larry Craig of Idaho has resigned “as Senate co-chairman for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.” The resignation comes in the wake of the disclosure that Craig has pleaded guilty earlie…