Tuesday, August 28, 2007

This just in: Senator Larry Craig is NOT GAY!!!

See?

Craig says "I am not gay, did no wrong"

BOISE, Idaho - Under fire from leaders of his own party, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig on Tuesday the only thing he had done wrong was to plead guilty after a police complaint of lewd conduct in a men's room. He declared, "I am not gay. I never have been gay."


"I did nothing wrong at the Minneapolis airport," he said at a news conference with his wife, Suzanne, at his side.

...The airport incident occurred June 11. Craig signed his plea papers on Aug. 1, and word of the events surfaced Monday. The senator issued a statement Monday night that said, "In hindsight, I should have pled not guilty."

He repeated that assertion at the Idaho news conference. "In June, I overreacted and made a poor decision," he said. "I chose to plead guilty to a lesser charge in hopes of making it go away."

...Craig, who has voted against gay marriage, finds his political future in doubt because of the case, which has drawn national attention.

Craig, 62, has faced rumors about his sexuality since the 1980s, but allegations that he had engaged in gay sex have never been substantiated. Craig has denied the assertions.

Trying to put his actions "in context," Craig lashed out at the Idaho Statesman, which published a lengthy article Tuesday on its investigation into the senator's actions.

The scandal had already taken a political toll. On Monday, Craig resigned from a prominent role with Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. He had been one of Romney's top Senate supporters, serving as a liaison for the campaign since February.

Asked about Craig, Romney said, "He's disappointed the American people."



Speak for yourself, Mitt baby. I for one am proud, PROUD, I say. You go, Larry! Hold your head up high! It's the best way to see into the next stall anyway...

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, some of us tap our feets in bathrooms cuz Christian Rock pwns our crusty old man ipods.

Kevin Andre Elliott said...

Ha! I just read about this. Must of not been any brown dudes around or else he coulda pulled a Bob Allen.

Howard said...

His denial knows no boundaries.

Rootietoot said...

I'm trying to figure out why someone who was apparetnly sensible and intelligent enough to become a senator would do any sort of anything other than eliminate or wash his hands in a PUBLIC restroom. I don't CARE about his apparent (or not) sexual proclivities, but WHY would he indulge them in a PUBLIC RESTROOM?

belledame222 said...

because it's far more likely that you can get away with anonymous sex in a restroom or park or dark backroom than, say, yer local friendly Gay Bowling Club; this is why most closeted men, not just Senators, do their thing in such places.

Anonymous said...

i don't understand why the fact that he had sex with a man has to do with his ability to hold office... it makes me so mad to hear people like romney get involved. i could understand better if it was his constitutents calling him home but other senators and politians is horrendous. and i wish craig wasn't so in denial, he should just claim it and be proud, he's proabably going down anyways. but that is the view of a simpleton.

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