Just when you quit worrying about your stance in the men’s room stall, the tap-dancing senator from Idaho is back in action — in court, not the restroom.
Has anyone since Rock Hudson tried so hard to be outed so he could deny it?
Sen. Larry Craig got his day in a court of law rather than the court of public opinion yesterday in an effort to persuade a judge to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea for looking for love in all the wrong places back in June.
The good senator was accused by an undercover cop of approaching him for sex in a men’s stall in the Minneapolis airport.
Craig, who’s been running from rumors about his sexuality for years, pleaded guilty to the charges and when the mess went public, said he shouldn’t have done it. Plead guilty that is.
All of Craig’s now very former fellow conservative Republican pals were hoping Craig would stop explaining how he accidentally nudged the cop’s foot, didn’t really run his hand back and forth under the wall of the stall, and how he is in the habit of picking stray sheets of toilet paper off the stall floor.
Now, Craig wants a chance to tell it to the judge and all of America at least one more time.
Make it stop. We already know that Craig doesn’t flush, and only his fellow Republicans care whether he likes boys.
Given that the veteran lawmaker is so good with words and has used a great number of them to insist he’s not gay, maybe it’s time to ask whether the senator enjoys working both sides of the aisle, so to speak. Then we can allow American men to go back to men’s room to stall for time rather than a date.
Dave Perry is editor of the Aurora Sentinel. Reach him at dlperry@aurorasentinel.com.
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