I honestly don't care who Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) has sex with, just like I didn't care about Clinton's escapades. I liked Clinton's policies and I don't know anything about Craig's. Glenn Greenwald has an interesting angle on the story on right wing commentator hypocrisy. Greenwald refers to "various right-wing commentators" though I think most all he mentions are bloggers.
"Last October, just weeks before the midterm election, gay activist Mike Rogers reported that the married, GOP "family values" Senator repeatedly had sex with anonymous men in public bathrooms. His report was based on "extensive research," including interviews with several men whom Craig solicited for bathroom sex."
Rogers was chastised by the right. "A virtually unanimous chorus on the Right furiously insisted that nothing could be more irrelevant than whether the married family values Senator had sex with men in bathrooms (acts that are simultaneously criminal and adulterous). The same political movement that impeached Bill Clinton and which has made a living exploiting issues of private morality for political gain insisted that Rogers had reached a new and despicable low in politics even by reporting this."
Now the right is all over Craig to get rid of him. Before election season begins.
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