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“In any event, Craig should resign for sheer stupidity.”

That’s it in a nutshell and the level of stupidity, by itself, demonstrates he lacks the attributes to be a Senator.

The charge was at its best a “he said, he said” situation to which clear and considered thought meant that were it to go to court Craig would most likely not have been found guilty, because the lone witness and the lone complainant was the cop - the cops word versus Craig’s word and nothing else to go on - no videos, no second “witness”, nothing else.

So, his first stupidity (or his second) was not realizing that and entering a guilty plea.

His second (or his third) stupidity was not consulting with and following the advice of a lawyer - who would have told him, and advised him that there was no need to plead guilty.

His possible first stupidity was that he was in fact guilty , and not only guilty of the slim acts of which he was accused, but of the greater motivation those acts were claimed to represent. And if that is true, it is usually a kind of behavior that someone in his position has a habit of doing.

Craig, guilty of stupidity, either way - and thus guilty of lacking the character that should help define a GOP Senator.

On the other side, there is something sad about all this in the GOP, politically, when it comes to EVERY FORM of so-called “ethical” accusation against a GOP elected official. The GOP will eat their own faster than you can spit, while, the Dims will say their member made an error, just not a grave and fatal error and then rally around them. Am I saying the Dims are totally right? No. But neither is the GOP penchant to throw everyone overboard - (i.e. Trent Lott, Tom Delay and others).

Part of the reason may be that the GOP members know so well that Dims own the media and the Dim’s media friends pretty much follow the Dim party line on these matters; while the same media treats any GOP infraction like a Pit-Bull treats red meat - hang on and never let it go.

This capitulation to the LameStreamMedia is endemic in the GOP, not just in matters like Craig (and regardless of the likely guilt and stupidity of Craig).