He's not Gay

Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig is now screaming up and down the halls of the Congress that he is not gay, not there is anything wrong with that unless you are a conservative lawmaker caught with your pants down or offering to take your pants down in the Minneapolis airport. This obviously seems like an effort to cover up something he believed would be quickly swept under the rug when he plead guilty to a lewd act in June, considering he did not do what TV has been telling us to do for years when he was arrested, consult a lawyer.

My first question around this whole situation is how does one know, or find out about that by rubbing another persons foot in the men's room in the Minneapolis airport that you are asking for some kind of perverted or lewd (in the legal sense) act. (Apparently this is a well known tactic in the gay community, not being a member of the aforementioned gay community, I am not aware of this.) Is this information available on the Internet? Not that I am interested in having lewd acts performed on or by me in any airport restroom, let alone the one in Minneapolis, which I have been to once (the airport, not the restroom).

My second question is why do all these conservatives like Craig, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, David Vitter and Bob Allen who claim to represent good old fashioned family values, then wind up in bed with lots of other folks besides their wives. To quote Nobody's Business:

Lovely. That's four cases (not including Vitter) of smut-fighting, morally superior, adamantly heterosexual, family-promoting, hard-right Christian Republican leaders who love taking it up the ass from male prostitutes, or who sexually proposition young boys in their charge, or who offer blowjobs to complete strangers in some public crapper. Four cases in the space of less than a year.

How exactly are these people elected year after year, and supported by the GOP. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy but me? When are the people going to stand up and say this is ridiculous politics as usual and not hold our elected officials to the standards they claim to stand for in their own campaigns. It is sickening, but hey maybe that is just me.