Cruising While Republican (What - Lil Ol' Us Conservatives? Ann Coulter Alert)

Ann Coulter.com ^ | 09/05/2007 | Ann Coulter

[elhombrelibre]

Yes, virtue is much more difficult in youth when libido is highly charged. Someone pointed that out about Malcolm Muggeridge after his conversion from rake to devout Christian. On a slightly humorous note about promiscuity, Oscar Wilde said he could “resist everything but temptation.” And, had he met Larry Craig in that mens room they’d have probably gotten temporarily married.

[alloysteel]

And now, Larry Craig is considering a take-back on his offer to resign, thinking that he may be able to grease the wheels and get the charge dismissed back in Minnesota, which would nullify the “guilty” plea.

Well, at least since he now has Arlen Specter on his side as his “cloakroom lawyer”. Sen. Specter is hardly the ‘go-to’ guy that conservative Republicans should be talking to on resolving problems, though.

Larry Craig’s best course, if he is going to tough it out, is to renounce his membership in the Republican party, and do a “Jim Jeffords” straddle. Not quite a Democratican, but certainly no longer a Republican.

Then he could accept Sen. Specter’s assistance in good faith.

Sen’ Specter does NOT have the best interests of the Republican party in mind. Otherwise, he would have jumped in to help out Rick Santorum.

[Billthedrill]

Indignant that Craig had short-circuited their gleeful gay-baiting, liberals quickly switched to a new set of talking points. In the blink of an eye, they went from calling Craig a "deviant" to attacking Republicans for not insisting that Craig stay.

I called that one in mid-switch. The local librul rag (Lewiston, Idaho) featured a headline - a front-page HEADLINE, mind you - yesterday that read "ANALYSIS: GOP HAS NO STOMACH FOR SCANDAL". What we actually have here is hypocrisy all right - world-class, aching, vomit-inducing hypocrisy and a perfect willingness to slap any gay person on their own side down who strays from the plantation.

It comes as no particular surprise that the editorial board of the NY Times - the "Gay Mafia" in their very own terminology - has figured a way around all of this that only involves a complete sellout of whatever slender principles they might have had left. My guess is that after their usual fashion, the price was cheap.

What irks me the most in the affair is not that Craig was trolling for BJ's in a public crapper, but that he and the commentariat are just fine with the laws that got him as long as they don't have to obey them and the rest of us do. Did we hear a cry from the left that this was the entrapment of an innocent (gay) man under an unjust law? That's why we didn't.

What is most clarified by this affair is that one side has standards and the other perquisites. That divide has never been sharper or more disgraceful.

[gathersnomoss]

Well, that could be interesting...not that there is anything wrong with that.

[bethtopaz]

Who is Pamela Geller?

[mountn man]

(my daughter looks like she could be Anne’s younger sister).

Quick feed her a samich right now. And make it a big un.

[Cyropaedia]

Sen’ Specter does NOT have the best interests of the Republican party in mind. Otherwise, he would have jumped in to help out Rick Santorum.

Didn't Specter campaign for Santorum? I know Santorum backed Specter in '04.

[mountn man]

She’s the political and intellectual equivalent of a mongoose. No wonder leftists snakes hate her.

[VR-21]

Exactly!

[El Gato]

Indignant that Craig had short-circuited their gleeful gay-baiting, liberals quickly switched to a new set of talking points. In the blink of an eye, they went from calling Craig a "deviant" to attacking Republicans for not insisting that Craig stay.

That's OK Ann, the libs got RINO Arlen Specter to say a few words of encouragement, and now Craig is talking of withdrawing the guilty verdict and being an Indian Giver with his pledge to resign.

Let the Field Day resume.

[El Gato]

Who is Pamela Geller?

She looks like she does, and she shoots. What more do you need to know? Shooting says a lot about her character, and her looks speak for themselves.

[Tall_Texan]

And there went MSNBC's fall program schedule.

No loss there...

[GeronL]

or Mark Steyn

[Lancey Howard]

Solid column up until the end:

If the charges against Craig are true -- and that is certainly in doubt....

Sorry, Ann - - the circumstantial evidence is mountainous. There is no doubt.

[Lancey Howard]

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I remember when the Bush Bods were all over Ann because of the Harriet Miers fiasco

It was like playing a game of Old Maid.

[Pinkbell]

"I thought gays just wanted to get married to one another and settle down in the suburbs so they could visit each other in the hospital."

Ha! That line is perfect because it's what homosexual activists like to tell the masses in order to get them to support gay marriage.

[7thson]

I have not finished reading the article but I think I found the best quote of the piece -

If liberals were any happier, they'd be gay.

[massgopguy]

Pam and Ann, Arm Wrestling over me.

[massgopguy]

Is the Times saying that sex in public rest rooms is the essence of being Gay.

Why that was the exact ruling by a MA judge who stopped the State Police from breaking up circle jerks in Rest Stops on MA highways. He ruled that public sex is a staple of “Gay Culture”.