There is something sad and pathetic about a US Senator allegedly soliciting gay sex in an Airport bathroom. It is a scenario so lame, so retrograde, so clumsily wrought that it is worthy only of a deeply closeted allegedly gay United States Senator.
Mind you, what he did was wrong according to the laws of the land, but mostly it was inept and ridiculous. Senator Craig's career perishes because he can't admit the truth to himself or even set up an assignation with any confidence.
Predictably, the values-pimps have come rushing in demanding this poor lout'sresignation and humiliation...being gay and Republican is a tolerable state if you are sufficiently orthodox and rightical chic, but if you get caught mah friends, then it is Katey-Bar-the-Door!
What this really points to is the sad decline of conservative politics in the USA, from theory with Goldwater to doctrine under Reagan now the whole mishaugas has become a nasty little witchburning cult with a pronounced and inexplicable animus towards gays.
2008 may be their Marengo or their Waterloo, but conservatism is falling apart in this country. Don't look to the olde wise men to save the movement they are hopelessly corrupt and compromised, on the other hand the best of the young turks can only think of running the likes of Larry Craig out of town on a rail.
The sun sets on them all...and sometimes as happens at twilight, all is cast in a harsh red lurid light.
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