Red State Renegade

At least he’s not a pedophile (as far as we know)!

Less than one year ago today, Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s office publicly denied allegations made by a gay activist website that he was a homosexual. The website claimed he had been having sex with men for years, and that they had interviewed (but not identified) four such men.

But it wasn’t the first rumor alleging the Senators lust for man-meat. Check out this 1982 clip, where the Senator appears on NBC news to pre-emptively deny involvment in congressional sex & drug scandal involving young page boys (Deja Vu?).

Now the Senator has pled guilty to charges of lewd public conduct, in an airport restroom known for homosexual hook-ups. The police reports claim that Craig made the moves on an undercover officer in a restroom stall.

After pleading guilty and paying the fines, Craig now says he isn’t guilty, and that it was a mistake to do so.

One might guess that his personal ‘flip-flop’ has to do with the fact that he’s up for re-election in 2008.

Or maybe it was due to pressure from Roboto-Republican presidential candidate and Hair-Club-For-Men founder Mitt Romney (perhaps no stranger to airport bathrooms himself), whose Idaho campaign was headed by Craig (he was also the campaign’s co-liason to the US Senate).

In a video posted on Youtube by the Romney campaign (now quickly un-posted), Craig explains his backing for Romney is due in part because “he has very strong family values…That’s something I grew up with and believe in.”

Or could it simply be that soliciting a plainclothes officer for sex in a public restroom doesn’t fit well with a man who on TV in 1999 rambled about “what a bad boy, a naughty boy” Bill Clinton was.

In perfect Republican fashion, Craig also has a perfectly homophobic voting record:

* Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
* Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
* Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
* Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
* Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)

Brings to mind Florida State Representative Bob Allen, who last month was popped for offering another undercover cop, in a different bathroom, $20 for a blowjob!

Allen was the author of Florida House Bill #1475, the “Lewd Or Lascivious Exhibition Act” which would have made public masturbation in the presence of another consenting adult illegal; as well as the “Sexual Predators Elimination Act,” which would eliminate plea bargaining and parole and force mandatory life sentencing for sexual predators.

In another similarity, Allen was co-head of John McCain’s Florida campaign.

Mr. Allen lists “watersports” as his sole recreational interest…