Red State Renegade

Wow I feel like it’s the 12 days of Christmas!

(See previous post for add’l details)

What are the odds that a religiously based, conservative values website would have an article decrying homosexual men having anonymous sexual trysts in airport bathrooms next to a report praising Senator Larry Craig for a religiously based, ‘pro-life,’ vote?

The Idaho Values Alliance describes it’s mission as “to protect the values that have made Idaho such a great state in which to live [and] raise a family…to protect…the sanctity of marriage and the family, the sanctity of life, and to restrain judicial activism.”

In an April newsletter, the following item appears directly under a photo of Senator Craig and an accompanying article about the Senator’s ‘pro-life’ voting against a stem cell research bill (in agreement with President Bush):

“One of the tragic characteristics of the homosexual lifestyle is its emphasis on anonymous sex and multiple sexual partners. It is a little-acknowledged secret that many active homosexuals will have more than 1,000 sex partners over the course of a lifetime (the average among heterosexuals is seven – still six more than we were designed for). This sordid fact of homosexual life surfaced yesterday in an AP article yesterday that reports on the number of arrests police have made for indecent exposure and public sex acts in the restrooms at Atlanta’s airport, the busiest in the world. The increased restroom patrols, begun to apprehend luggage thieves, instead uncovered a rash of sex crimes. Airport restrooms have become so popular that men looking for anonymous sexual trysts with other men have advertised their airport availability on Craigslist. One such ad was from a man saying he was stuck at the airport for three hours and was looking for “discreet, quick action.”

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…

“How many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?”

This week video surfaced from 1994 of Dick Cheney being asked about the decision to NOT continue on into Baghdad at the end of Gulf War I.

As I understand it, he was speaking to the “Association of Wingnuts Who Feel We Should Invade The Rest of The World,” or American Enterprise Institute for short:

Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad?

A: No.

Q: Why not?

A: Because if we’d gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn’t have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.

Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it — eastern Iraq — the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you’ve got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.

It’s a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.

The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families — it wasn’t a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?

Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.

From an article titled: Why Liberals Lie About Sex, by nutbag Kevin McCullough (apparently a radio host), mostly a rant about a new survey finding that teenagers are less sexually active today than several years ago:

“Liberals want your child to have sex. They want this to occur in spite of your religious, health, or parental objections. They are willing to substitute false thinking for solid fact on the consequences of what will happen. And they do so while simultaneously insulting you and your child’s ability to comprehend, discern, and choose behaviors that make the most sense.”

The same crap rag/website had headlines which included:

“Obama: Sex Ed for Tots”
and
“And You Thought There Was No Way Democrats Could Create A 20,000 Percent Tax Increase…”

This crap passes for journalism!

And then you wonder where we as a country are headed?

And why are we in this handbasket?

My head is spinning endlessly. What else is new?

I wish I could be clever or witty about this. But right now I am blown away completely for the 42,768th time since these nutsack wackjobs took office.

This week the notorius DC Madam posted on the internet phone records going back years listing her high end clientele in D.C.

She claimed info was being leaked and possibly manipulated, and that she felt a need to release such info to head that off.

The first big news was that republican Senator David Vitter was a regular customer.

Hmm, what a surprise. Though I guess it’s not as bad as being chair of the senate caucus on exploited children while sending nasty IMs to 16 year old boys in the House page program…

In his apology/admission he said:

“This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible…Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling…Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there — with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way.”

This guy got his start by replacing former Rep. Bob Livingston, who abruptly resigned after disclosures of numerous affairs in 1998.

At the time, Vitter argued that an extramarital affair was grounds for resignation:

“I think Livingston’s stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess,” he said. [Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 12/20/98]

In an editorial, he also questioned “whether President Clinton should be impeached and removed from office because he is morally unfit to govern.”

It also appears that he only came out and confessed/apologized to do damage control after a phone call from Hustler publisher Larry Flynt inquiring about his calls to the escort service (Ironically, Flynt also outed Bob Livingston in 1998).

And as is he wasn’t already having a bad week, it appears he was a regular customer at a New Orleans Brothel as well…