So what. The Congressman likes guy-on-guy sex. If it really mattered to his constituents or to his wife or to his masters in the Repugnican Party, he'd be gone. Craig's just another hypocritical right-wing Nazi nut member of the most venial political institution in American history, that is to say, a Repugnican.

"He's also a pervert, probably not gay, but way beyond that"

Where do I send the cleaning bill for the shirt I ruined with the spit-take this sentence invoked?

Absolutely hilarious, if it weren't so pathetic.

Just to be clear, does this mean that gay people are merely perverted, but Larry is some undefinable monster that is 'way beyond' either gay or perverted?

Of course the truth is, he is neiter perverted nor a monster, or very likely gay.

If it is true that he has been engaging in sexual activity outside of his marriage then is an adulterer and a liar. It makes not a whiff of difference if he chooses male or female partners for his adultery.

If it is true that he hasa engaged in prostitution as part of his alleged adultery, then he is also guilty of solicitation. A crime that should not be a crime in the first place.

That is where we should be, sadly as clearly demostrated, we have a long way to go.

As a bisexual man, I can understand the difficulty that other bisexual men face in this culture. Larry Craig, if the allegations are true, would be a closeted bisexual man with signifcant behavioral issues that need to be addressed in what would likely be years of therapy. For that we should not attack him.

For being a adulterer, cheating on his wife, putting her health at risk with his patently outrageous choices, for these things he should be pilloried.

The reason Larry Craig's personal actions matter to the country is because he helps to pass or defeat measures that affect Americans.

His lack of compassion or empathy for those who are gay or bisexual is reflected in his voting record.

Sadly, he could have chosen to be a light; instead, he symbolizes darkness.

By the standards of some of these comments, you would not be able to prove anything unless you had pictures. The article explicitly says that they checked Craig's travel schedule, the witnesses backgrounds and talked to others who had been told CONTEMPORANEOUSLY of encounters. Now, it is possible that this is all an elaborate setup, but it would have taken a heck of a lot of work and many cooperating people who apparently don't live in the same city. Why would they bother, when the guy is already resigning? Why not go through all this trouble to go after someone new?
When you add all this to the account of a policeman in Minneapolis, it is pretty convincing.

TJ- umm, I hate to tell you, but Larry Caig IS a Republican.
Welcome to the party of hypocrites, fascists, closet-gays, and "compassion".
TJ, wake up and smell the Party.

It's really early here on the west coast, so forgive me if the tone of this sound a little off or if I can't get my spelling "straight."

I guess I see this in a different light. The apparent contradiction between Larry C's lifestyle, voting record and party affiliation seems merely to be a surface phenomenon. In truth, the modern republican party gains its strength from men like Craig and others who have something to hide and the party has capitalized on these "dirty" secrets to make arm twisting a much more efficient mechanism. If a party thrives more on internal authority than coalition building, then that party can take advantage of secrets, lies and dirty laundry to ensure that business gets done. Starting with the president himself and going down, the power can be AND IS exerted through the skeletons in the closet. That is not to say that there is some central file cabinet with all the dirt (though, hey, that would be interesting!); rather, diffuse knowledge and constant surveillance of everyone by each other leads to internal social promotion the discipline of the republican village. Promote larry craig, he'll do what we say because...

Of course, there are plenty of people who get off from the very repression we see in the external tropes of republican behavior and those people are naturally attracted to an authoritarian party that makes their secrets all the more titillating. There are also plenty of men who will say they are not gay but who are quite happy with occasional man-on-man action. The latter are quite simply hypocrites. But let's not confuse hypocrisy and what has become a structural device for control, punishment and promotion within the "party of values."

andyw, what you're describing is a "crime family" - that the repugs operate as a crime family.

Larry says he is not gay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHCrOtSzIBg&feature=related

During one of Republican presidential candidates, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) was asked about Craig (R-Idaho) and some of the other scandal-plagued members of the GOP caucus. Here's his reply:

"That's one thing about our party: When our guys have problems like this, they leave -- they leave the Senate or they leave the House. When the Democrats have problems like this, they often make them chairman of -- of their respective committees."

Uh huh.

I thought we had already seen plenty of evidence in this BATHROOM SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE

It depends on what he thinks meaning if gay is. Maybe he is thinking that "gay" is wanting an emotional relationship with a man. He does not. He thinks he is straight with just a little fetish...like a foot fetish..only his fetish is various sexual entcounters with males. Sick and twisted as that definition may be. I think that is how he defines it.

I saw a potential problem with these new allegations regarding Craig. As more proof arises, Craig can be isolated by the right as a "lone" gay cannon - an exception if you will to the upstanding Republican majority. Without these allegations, Craig could be considered as one of the pack of deviants, thieves, liars and crooks that the Republican party has become.

What is it with these "family values" and the "sanctity of marriage" types?

Perhaps before they preach to us about how we should behave and mandate laws about what does and doesn't constitute a marriage, they should get their own dysfunctional and hypocritical houses in order.

Larry Craig is just the latest example of a long list of ultra-conservative, faux patriotic, often Bible thumping hypocrites, that has included some of the GOP's rising stars.

What I don't understand is why it is liberals and Democrats who are so successfully branded as the enemies of family values and the personifications of immorality.

Take a look around folks.

It's not us liberals, by and large, who are leading dishonest and hypocritical lives. Not by a long shot.