With Friends Like This...

Sen. Larry Craig, the toe-tapping Idaho Republican with the wide stance who got himself in big legal and political trouble in that Minneapolis airport men’s room incident last June, is now going toe-to-toe with his former friend, Mitt Romney.

Craig was the Romney campaign’s chief Senate liaison until word exploded in late August that Craig had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a police bathroom sex-sting operation. Romney immediately called his supporter’s behavior “disgraceful,” and Craig left the campaign.

In a taped interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer to be broadcast later this week, Craig says, “He not only threw me under his campaign bus. He backed up and ran over me again.” (source)

What in the world did Larry Craig expect from Romney? Romney is an opportunist. When he was Governor of Massachusetts, he was all for some fairness for gay people. Then, when he basically went AWOL from his job to travel around the country, he changed his tune. Today, he wants a constitutional amendment to the U.S. Constitution against “gay marriage”. Does he really feal this way? Who knows. He might, but it’s not in his best interests to give any indication that he’s the least bit tolerant to the issues we face. But Romney’s problems are so many. He has so many skeletons in the closet.

The only other that has more is Giuliani. He flip flops so often that it’s honestly impossible to know where Rudy stands on any one issue. For heaven’s sake, he used to dress up in drag, attend gay pride parades, and lived with a gay couple. Now, if I were that gay couple and had any sense of self respect, I wouldn’t even talk to the schmuck. Rudy’s current position is that he’s against gay marriage AND (and this is a change) now against civil unions for gay couples. He now feels that all of our issues can be dealt with by contracts. Nice. What if the state of Kansas doesn’t want to honor that contract? I guess we can work it up through the court system until it reaches the Supreme Court. Yeah, I’m sure they’d enforce a contractual agreement a gay couple has together. The problem is, they would see that as an endorsement of a marriage-like agreement and vote it down.

Back to Larry Craig... he needs to shut up and deal with the fact that many of the people in his party are sleaze bags just like him, who would sell their own mother for a few votes, just like him. What other treatment did he honestly expect from Mitt Romney? Fairness? Honesty? Integrity? GET REAL.