What Sen. Larry Craig Said About Bill Clinton

I LOVE THIS!

I think this is even better than the fall of Rev. Ted Haggard of Colorado Springs,a leading ultra-conservative evangelist who was having an affair with a male prostitue in Denver.

By now everyone between here and Kars (a remote city in northeast Turkey) has probably heard about Sen. Larry Craig's (R-Id.) guilty plea after being busted by a federal police officer in Minneapolis for trying to solicity gay sex in a men's room.

But, there was this quote from Craig's 1999 appearance on Tim Russert's "Meet the Press" about Bill Clinton, which was cited in today's edition of "The Sleuth," a political blog from "The Washignton Post."

In his comments, Sen. Craig repeated the mantra that the then-president was a bad moral example for America:

"You're a naughty boy. The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy.....

I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority who think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."

Incidentally, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) will be on tonight's "Late Show with David Letterman," which will undoubtedly feature more jokes about Sen. Craig, whose Idaho seat is up for reelection in 2008.

Links:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth

UPDATE: Craig resigned from his U.S. Senate seat with a press conference in Boise yesterday. "The Washington Post" reported that GWB gave him a phone call afterwards. I imagine he undoubtedly thanked him for his loyal support, given Craig's arch conservative voting record.

Gay activist/blogger Mike Rogers said in same article that the reason why Craig was asked to leave, and Sen. David Vitter (R-La), who admitted to having sex with a DC prostitute, was pure homophobia. Though pundits on Sunday talk shows pointed out many other reasons, including the fact that Idaho has a Republican governor who can appoint a GOP Senator. Louisiana does not.

The liberal blog "The Daily Kos" added that Craig, a leading supporter of the NRA, should really be ashamed of his awful environmental record in the Senate.

http://www.dailykos.com