Another One?!

Right-wing lug nut US Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and the Senate Republican Deputy Whip has been busted and pleaded guilty to, err, "disorderly conduct" charges in the bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport according to WAPO.

The story was first reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, which cited a copy of a report by the airport's police division. It said that airport police had been conducting a sting operation inside that men's room because of complaints of sexual activity there.

According to the police report, the undercover officer set up his position in the restroom at noon on June 11. A few minutes later, Craig entered and sat in the stall next to him. Craig began tapping his right foot, touched his right foot to the left foot of the officer in the stall next to him and brushed his hand beneath the partition into the stall next to him. He was then arrested.

According to CNN "Craig's voting record has earned him top ratings from social conservative groups such as the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council."

Just how many sexually-repressed Republican politicians are there out there, so to speak? former Rep. Mark Foley, Senator David Vitter, Ted Haggard and on and on. And now Larry Craig joins the list or maybe the Muzak in the men's room was just too toe-tapping good? Apparently reports about Craig's sexual preferences have bounced around in Idaho since at least October 2006.

Mitt Romney wasted no time in booting Craig from his Presidential campaign's steering committee. According to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune story:

[Craig] has been one of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's top Senate supporters, serving as a Senate liaison for the campaign since February. As word spread of Craig's guilty plea, a Romney campaign spokesman, Matt Rhoades, said in a statement: "Senator Craig has stepped down from his role with the campaign. He did not want to be a distraction and we accept his decision."

Their cognitive dissonance makes my head hurt. Can't these guys find a good shrink and quit pushing homophobic policies on everyone else? Well, no they can't because there simply is no place in the national Republican party for Out gays. The can't come out and push the same policies and they can't come out and keep their prominent roles in the national GOP.