"Since up to 90 percent of criminal convictions result from plea bargaining, and at least 90 percent of the people in prison seem to insist that they are innocent, it stands to reason that the criminal justice system will not necessarily invalidate a guilty plea simply because the defendant makes out-of-court statements about his innocence."

He'll be fine if he does all of the above, in said order. Though he wouldn't be Idaho's Senator anymore...but who would want to be, anyway? C'mon Craig! You could be a star!

If Craig refuses to resign and serves out his term, this will hang around his neck like an albatross, his credibility will remain in the toilet (pun intended), and he'll stand no chance of being reelected. If he decides to run for reelection, he'll be easy to beat. If doesn't run for reelection, then a democrat has a lot better chance running for an open seat vacated by a loathed hypocrite, than they would running against an incumbent republican replacement.

So please, Craig, serve out your term. Better yet, please please please try to get this case reopened. I'd love to see this drag out in a very public way for the next year or so.

These are the people whose sons and daughters are dying pointlessly in Iraq.

I have several EXTREMELY conservative, religious family members who have kids and grandkids in the military. Without exception, every one of them has turned at least ambivalent about the Forever War, and almost all of them are disgusted with the current crop of Giant Intrusive Incompetent Government Republicans. They may not be ready to vote for Democrats - the Republican smear machine has done too good a job equating Democrat with Tax-Hungry Libertines Who Want To Give All Your Money to Brown People. But I think a lot of them are not going to vote for Republicans, either. They're going to stay home en masse.

I think Idaho is going to surprise a lot of people.

Signed,
Voter in Boise (or Wherever, ID)

Does anyone think for a second that if he would have voted any differently he would have stood a chance in Idaho? This is Idaho we are talking about. They still celebrate Hitler's birthday there. Idaho isn't going Democrat even if Craig was caught wearing women's underwear and masturbating into a feces pie.

Be mad at the people of Idaho all you want, but isn't representing your constituents the job of a politician?

Get real and you can get out of the loo.