Slog - Comments on GOP to Craig: Resign, Bitch! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch You there--yeah you, the guy playing footsie with undercover cops in airport toilets. You've gotta go. But that married "family values" screamer that pays prostitutes to put him diapers? He can stay.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:13:25 -0800 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:04:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by monkey Your political career called. It wants to break up.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793288 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793288 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:36:09 -0800 Comment by wile_e_quixote Apparently this sort of thing has happened in Idaho before, as witness this story from 1955 in Time Magazine.


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,711877,00.html


I especially love this sentence:

Interior Decorator Charles H. Gordon, 40, got 15 years.

I didn't know that "Interior Decorator" was a proper noun. Or is it only capitalized when it's a gay interior decorator (or "Interior Decorator" as the case may be).

]]> wile_e_quixote http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793291 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793291 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:40:40 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe AAAAhahahahahaha!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793299 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793299 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:50:36 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo Rank hypocrisy is fine, but today's GOP will simply not abide homosexuality.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793325 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793325 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:16:29 -0800 Comment by TLjr Before this, the MSP airport police force's chief claim to notoriety was their violent harassment of bikes and bicyclers. It's good to hear that they're finally honing in on the real threats to the safety of the traveling public.

]]> TLjr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793367 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793367 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:48:17 -0800 Comment by wench There is one point that should be made here, which is that he was actually convicted. Not of much, but he was convicted. The diapered gentleman who visited prostitutes was not. This allows the republicans to put it into terms of a criminal misconduct type thing, as opposed to a gay thing.

]]> wench http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793371 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793371 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:51:46 -0800 Comment by kk @6: umm . . . why do you think Senator Craig was convicted and not Senator Vitter (statute of limitations issues aside)? Because Senator Craig did something *very, very bad* (i.e., he attempted to have illegal gay sex) while Senator Vitter only did something (wink-wink-nudge-nudge) "bad" (i.e., he actually had illegal straight sex). Vitter essentially confessed to having committed the crime, but no one is calling for him to resign. See Dan's prior post on the blatant double standard. Grr.

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793381 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793381 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:37:38 -0800 Comment by Gitai Well, gay thing aside, this is the GOP. They can't abide that Craig was getting his sex for free. Now, Vitter was taking part in the commodification of one of the deepest aspects of human nature. That's more up the GOP's alley.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793390 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793390 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:01:23 -0800 Comment by ado The most confusing thing to me about this whole thing is that Craig spent his whole press conference denying that he was gay. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't he believe that "gay" is a choice and not something that a person is? I think that makes this even worse for him since he "chose" to be a homosexual. As if looking for sex in a bathroom isn't bad enough, he "chose" to look for a man to do it with.

]]> ado http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793405 Politics Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:35:24 -0800 Comment by Psyche It's actually occurred to me that Larry Craig's attempts to engage in gay bathroom sex and his anti-gay votes aren't hypocritical at all. After all, if Larry Craig isn't free to live an open, honest gay life, why should anyone else be? If Craig can't admit his orientation to his wife, his donors, his constituents, then what right should two other queers have to openly declare their love at a marriage ceremony? Why shouldn't all of us suffer like he has to, condemned to lustless marriages and seeking out sordid and shameful encounters with strangers in other states -- who hopefully won't look at his face or recognise him? Sounds perfectly consistent to me.

]]> Psyche http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793475 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793475 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:27:23 -0800 Comment by Rebecca I know I'm probably being super naive, but is there any possibility that Craig wasn't trying to get some in the potty? Couldn't he have just been nosy? Or seeking a spare square?

Maybe it's that I'm a straight girl and have never fucked anybody in the toilet and therefore don't know what the obvious signals for that are, or it could be that the idea of Larry Craig fucking anyone makes me vomit just a bit in my mouth, but couldn't he have just gotten flustered and then plead guilty to hush it up?

I don't know why the GOP cares...okay I do know, but it's just so fucking stupid. Aren't we still killing people in Iraq? Stupid fucking country. Again.

]]> Rebecca http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793484 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793484 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:39:16 -0800 Comment by Need remedial sex ed Some commenters on Craig's saga on other boards assert that there is an entire subculture of horny straights who like to blow and get blown. I always thought that men who liked to have sex with other men were, oh I dunno, gay or bi or something.

Could Craig be straight? Will any warm moist place do for most guys, while waiting for their flight to be called? It's not like Craig had been denied conjugal visits.

]]> Need remedial sex ed http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793522 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793522 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:44:36 -0800 Comment by Happy Feet Close paraphrase of intro to Fabulous Larry's press conference: "I want to thank you for coming out today."

]]> Happy Feet http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793545 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:45:59 -0800 Comment by via stephanie Larry Craig: born in Idaho, reared in Minneapolis.

]]> via stephanie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793546 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793546 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:49:02 -0800 Comment by kk @11: If you need help visualizing what the gentleman from Idaho did on his MSP "layover," Slate.com has the reenactment. http://www.slatev.com/player.html?id=1155290759 As you can see, it's highly unlikely that Senator Craig simply had a "wide stance" or was searching for a stray piece of TP.

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793557 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793557 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:03:26 -0800 Comment by QuimbyMcF When this story was breaking earlier in the week, one brilliant Slogger introduced the term "stray" to the thread as a description the Craiger and his ilk. Great choice. There is some precedence for use of the term, as listed in the UrbanDictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stray) from as far back as 2005, although not quite in this context. I urge the respondent to add the new definition to the lexicon.

]]> QuimbyMcF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793582 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793582 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:49 -0800 Comment by OR Matt Let us not forget the REAL victems of this tragedy. The police officers who must have really pissed off someone above them to patrol around public restrooms to look for people about to embark in lewd conduct!

I would rather be the meter maid

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793668 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:23:49 -0800 Comment by frequency ass bandit yeah, can you imagine the shittrain those poor cops are running from now?

]]> frequency ass bandit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793983 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/gop_to_craig_resign_bitch#c793983 Politics Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:04:08 -0800