Sep 03 2007
Defend Your Honor Senator Craig
Arlen Specter, who I am no fan of, has come out with what I think is the best answer to Senator Craig’s problems – fight the conviction and restore your good name:
The ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee says Idaho Senator Larry Craig should seek to withdraw his guilty plea, and possibly his resignation from the Senate.
“I’d like to see Larry Craig go back to court, seek to withdraw his guilty plea and fight the case,” Senator Arlen Specter said on ‘Fox News Sunday’. Drawing on his earlier experience as District Attorney of Philadelphia, Specter said, “On the evidence Senator Craig wouldn’t be convicted of anything. And he’s got his life on the line and 27 years in the House and Senate, and I’d like to see him fight the case because I think he could be vindicated.”
Absolutely! Everyone with two brain cells left to rub together knows a guilty plea is many times an act of convenience – not a statement of guilt (and definitely NOT proof of guilt). Right now the price he is paying for a misdemeanor is way to high. So instead of accepting this injustice do what he should have done in the first place – fight the charges. Don’t let people define your reputation Senator – defend your honor. We support you, come what may. Hat tip Mac Ranger.
I totally agree with your analysis. In my opinion Sen Craig is a oldtimer, and most likely didn’t have a clue what it meant when he did what it did.
I also think the ‘rising’ cop maybe had other motives, earning his brownies, and I always thought that anyone is innocent until proven guilty.
White Dem Frank ran a male prostitution ring out of his apartment, McGreevey had his scandals, why is it that liberals always find ways to defend perverts?
AJ
I don’t personally know his situation, but he has been on the radar for years of the gay outer sites on the net.
He has been a recurring post about thing there for a long while.
There are others still in their radar that will shake out down the line.
What we are seeing is clearing the decks after the Foley situation of not just those tainted with the gay situation which I could care less about than most, but understand the political dynamic of it.
Right now there is a zero tolerance house cleaning going on with the right.
A hard pill to swallow, but if they do it right, they will make the party stronger than the other side with all their issues themselves they choose not to address.
Ur wrong on this one, AJ.
I listened to the tape. The policeman was kind of a jerk
but Craig knew exactly what he did.
Ur wrong on this one, AJ.
I listened to the tape. The policeman was kind of
a jerk but Sen. Craig knew exactly what he was doing.
There is no way the Reps can get stronger as long as they allow the Soros backed organizations to get away with piling on targeted people who have been designated as “must get rid of one way or the other.” Isn’t it just possible that Craig was targeted and set up because of his anti gay stance in the Senate? And didn’t the Republicans aid and abett in getting rid of one of their own by getting on the bandwagon. If all these outraged poeple were really cncerned about perverts, lechers, child molesters, adulterors, and their ilk , half the Democrats in Washington would have been forced to resign years ago. As it is, the Republicans have a record of forcing their accused to resign and then later discover they weren’t really guilty of breaking any laws. Lets see. They forced Sen. Packwood to resign becasue he made passes at women. He was not accused of groping or sexual harrassment. He was accused of coming on to women who, if their testimony is to be believed, were not punished or persued further when they indicated they were not interested. Foley was used to paint the entire Republican Party as closet gay hypocrites, and it turns out he did not break any rules or laws. He was set up and the Republicans did not come to his defense. The whole Republican Party turned their backs on Gingrich, DeLay, Livingston, and others as soon as trumped up charges were leveled against them. It seems to me that the Dems have figured out how to get rid of the most effective Reps. All they have to do is get some nut or crooked law enforcement person to make a public charge of some kind of wrong doing and the Republicans will do the work for them. It seems to me that if the Dems. can live with, defend and support the likes of Ted, negligent homicide, Kennedy, William, $90,000 in bribe money the freezer, Jefferson, Barney, gay sex call boy operator, Frank, Hillary, Sell us out to China, Clinton, and the many other unindicted Democrat felons who serve in Congress , the Republicans would at least find out if one of their own is guilty before they kick him off the train.
Momdear1
Packwood is down the memory hole for many today, but you made an excellent point with that reference.
Momdear1, you are right on the money as always.
Oh, geeze . . . give it up. Craig is gay. The only reason he married his former employee was to get some cover when he was involved in the investigation of sexual harassment of Congressional pages back in ’82 (he married in ’83). The guy is GAY. He just can’t tell the truth about it.
As for withdrawing his guilty plea, he’s got to have some reason, some excuse for the court, cause usually, once you plead guilty, that’s it.
Why should the court go to all that trouble? Why should we waste taxpayer dollars on a lying hypocrite. And just so all you newly gay-sensitive folks don’t accuse me of being a homophobe – I don’t care who Craig sleeps with – but keep it out of the public restrooms, please – because that IS perverted.
The guy is a lying, hypocritical loser.
Momdeari1,
So what happened to Packwood. Was he proven to be guilty?