Borrowski, you’re not much on reading.  McCain denounced Craig and Romney fired Craig’s ass off his campaign and trashed him.  The Republicans took away his positions on important committees.  Fellow right-wing gay Mitch McConnell said Craig would be investigated.  Only one Republican has come to the defense of Larry Craig- the moderate Arlen Spector.
Fearing Craig as a burden in next year’s elections, the Right Wing has abandoned Craig, rightfully so.

If Larry Craig wanted to have sex with a man, he should have gone to a pickup joint, not a men’s room.

If I solicit a prostitute and it turns out to be a police sting, I am going to get arrested. I can understand the author’s concerns to a point, but gay or straight, the law is the law. As for police procedures, I support the cleanup of prostitution in my community and the gay restroom pickup cleanups as well, and I am no right-wing neocon by any stretch. I think there is a place for everything and what Craig had in mind should have been done in a private hotel room. He is, like most GOP figures, trying to be held to a double standard, to have a special re-do of the law because, basically, he is a hypocrite. He should just come out about his sexual preference, or say it is no one’s business, and resign, having confessed to one of the more sordid recent acts since the Congressional pages were being hit up for dates last year.

I’ve never seen it either, bestpix.  I’ve also never seen rape, murder, auto theft or other crimes.  Doesn’t mean they don’t happen.  This is the childish argument certain people used to defend OJ Simpson murdering his wife and her friend.  “Were you there?  Did you see it?” This sort of thing should never be said by anyone over the age of eight.

Larry Craig got busted playing footsie and handsie.  Not assigning a police detail in this complaint-ridden restroom, putting the cop elsewhere, would not increase national security, cure leukemia or end world hunger.  Can we all, as Joan Rivers says, grow up?

PEOPLE Please!  How big a problem can this (sex in public rstrms) really be ?  Have YOU EVER walked in on sex in a restroom ? 

I’m 57 yrs old and have lived in LA, SF, Denver, Miami, and I have NEVER walked in on someone having sex in a restroom.  My 50yrs+ associate from work has lived in NY, & LA, and he also has NEVER walked in on sex. 

Oh Yeah, it’s a really good use of police !

Ellen, you are flat-out wrong.  I can’t claim to know what goes on in women’s public restrooms, but you wouldn’t like to see somebody’s hand cross between her partition and yours, would you? 

You also make your own verdict, Your Honor, why the peeping charge was dropped- because it wouldn’t stand.  That’s your take, Ms. Goodman.  I think it was an act of generosity.  But just watch: if Larry is able to take back his guilty plea and start over, the peeping charge will go right back.

“What law has Craig broken?” some folks bleat, as if this was some figment of people’s imagination.  Yes, Ellen, he broke two laws and pled guilty to one.  This particular column is the silliest on the topic, with the except of Arianna Huffington’s, which essentially claimed that what with the threat of terrorism, why are there cops in restroom stings?- as if that cop in the Minneapolis bathroom was taken off The Bin Laden Case.  Sheesh!

I think the police stated they had received complaints about this problem from persons using the facilities at this airport before they decided to do a sting (ouch! that’s gotta hurt!). I wouldn’t be surprised they picked the time and place on the basis of past complaints. They probably could pin-point the flight times etc. No doubt Larry was part of the problem as he “used” these seats many times on the way to and from The Seat in DC!

Regardless fo Larry and his efforts to turn this around, he is dead in the water.

On the one hand he is guilty of being a lying hipocrite, who has been lying to his constituentsy for 30 years.

On the other hand he is guilty of being a lying hipocrite, who has been lying to his constituentsy for 30 years!

So how many of you Idahoans are going to the poll and re-electing this piece of mountain goat dung?!!!

If an innocent Congress Critter pled guilty to a lesser offense “to make it go away” he is too dumb to serve the people.
Any innocent person would have demanded a polygraph and a full fledged investigation rather than trying to sweep it under the rug.
What any pervert does that doesn’t involve kids is their business. Public areas of any kind is not the place for such business.
Arlen Spector was right in thinking that he might have beat the charge. There was no overt sexual act or request for one.
As an over the road driver for many years I have had to use public bathrooms. I too spread my kness to keep my pants off the floor while sitting. Never once have I found it necessary to place my foot under a partition to accomplish that.
Had I seen a foot or hand appear under the partition, it would have been stepped on or burned. A stall is a place for needed privacy and any intrusion is not to be welcomed nor condoned.
Maybe the Brown One can return and issue a ruling allowing Craig to retract his guilty plea.
Hopefully no one else will and this story will die along with Craigs’ career and reputation.

The only problem I have with the Craig situation is having sex in public.  That was not borne out of homophobia, but simply the thrill of public sex.

Have sex in private, unless you’re an animal.  Mik 98859 is on the mark.  If you don’t have a partner, either do yourself or deny yourself, if you believe public venues are your only option.  Promiscuous gays who use public venues do the gay cause no good because straights link the public gay sex act with bad judgement/choices, among other negatives.  Do your brothers and sisters a service and do it at home.

This author seems to think that only major crimes should be investigated:  “Isn’t there a murder to be solved in Minneapolis?”

Should we stop arresting thieves because murderers are on the loose and haven’t yet been caught?  What about white collar criminals?  Should they be ignored by the police because they aren’t murderers? 

This is, of course, ridiculous.  Police departments have different units or divisions to deal with different types of crimes.  Some handle traffic, some handle robbery, some drugs, etc…

You can’t criticize an arrest because there are more serious criminals somewhere else.  And making this a gay issue doesn’t seem right either.  People soliciting or engaging in heterosexual sex in a public washroom would be arrested too.

Thank you.

In the words of our forefathers, stop hunting witches you puritanical douche-bags. That goes double for the hypocrites, Larry Craig.

Unless the threat level has dropped to green, all of our constitutional rights have been restored and the executive branch has been put back in their place, there are are more pressing issues to attend to at our nation’s airports. This is the kind of crap that makes my blood boil every time my property taxes go up due a shortage of law enforcement.

Let’s get rid of bad congressmen for better reasons than being caught being “naughty boys”. Besides, soliciting for sex does not imply “barebacking” in front of children anymore than men hitting on women in airport bars does. If you catch him doing it in front of kids and people who don’t want to see that bust him, otherwise leave him (and the rest of us) alone. Please. While you’re at it, lose the cameras going up all over the place, too. Not cool.

Now, can we get back to how we’re not going to allow for the carpet bombing of Iran and how we’re going to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan?