I agree with all of you about media bias. That is just a no-brainer. It is what it is.
What is bothering me much more about this story is the moral relativism. We have come so far down this partisan road that many of us are willing to overlook the fact that Larry Craig's character is just a little too questionable to belong in a place of leadership over our country. Yes, the same could have been and was said of Bill Clinton. He should have resigned too. But the fact that he didn't doesn't mean that our guy should get a pass.
Now I sound like a Republican who eats his own, I know. But it has blown my mind to hear people defending Mr. Craig on the basis that he wasn't caught in the act. They are making excuses for him based on the circumstantial nature of the evidence and the fact that the other side has screw-ups too. This has become about partisanship, not common decency.
Whether he was caught with his pants down or not, the fact is that Mr. Craig went out of his way to go to a restroom that was nowhere near either of his gates. A restroom that just happened to be listed on some whacked-out website listing a bunch of places you can find gay sex in this country. Upon arriving there, he just happened to follow a behavior pattern that is described on this same website as a way to signal your desire for gay sex. Call me crazy, but where there is smoke, there is usually fire.
Please don't hear me judging the former Senator. I know my earlier posts probably sounded like I was. That is not my place. My problem is with his judgement. If you are willing to engage in this kind of risky and reckless behavior in your personal life, I don't want you in a place of power where you potentially will make decisions that affect my life.
But watching this play out in the media as a Republican vs. Democrat fight for the moral high ground is very troublesome. There is a compelling argument to be made that the reason Democrats aren't accused of hyprocrisy when they are caught in scandals is because they never take a moral stance against anything. If you don't stand for anything, then you can't be accused of being a hyprocrite, I guess. How sad is that?
Anyway, I don't plan to talk about this anymore. The man has resigned, as he should. Yes, it frustrates me that Democrats don't do this. But it doesn't surprise me. And it doesn't make me think we shouldn't elect Republicans just in case one of them goes bad. The entire party is not tainted by the actions of a few.
Can we please try to remember this next election?
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I agree 100%. I must admit the occassional thought of him being innocent of wrongdoing but it also sounded like he knew what he was after. I'm amazed at the number of people on the radio I hear pretty much saying that he's MORE guilty than a Democrat would be because he ran on a platform of family values. Sad, just sad.
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