JUSIPER
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Richard Cohen
Wow:
I don't know whether Larry Craig, the senator with an apparent case of restless leg syndrome (as seen on TV commercials), is gay or hetero or bi or whatever. I do know, though, that he is incapable of learning. Having been arrested in a Minneapolis airport men's room, having been compelled (or so he says) into a false confession, having been roundly ridiculed and ostracized by many of his colleagues -- et tu, McCain? -- he has neither the gumption nor the integrity nor the wit to question some of his former positions, which made him, without a doubt, a law-and-order conservative par excellence. Craig wasn't exposed as gay. He was exposed as ineducable.
Along with almost everyone else outside the Senate's Republican caucus -- when the door opens the blast of toxic hypocrisy is enough to deck the average person -- I can see no crime that Craig committed. At worst, he came on a bit to an undercover cop who spends his days protecting the public while seated on a commode and who, dollars to doughnuts, gave Craig a wink or the equivalent thereof. No cop is going to risk hemorrhoids and not come back with some arrests. He does what he needs to do, believing all the time that he is all that stands between Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby Mall of America.
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