A Good Year for the Outlaw

Oh, so many puns in one headline.

Be that as it may, I’m already hearing a lot of “where’s the proof?” arguments in the case of Senator Craig. Well, the Idaho Statesman has been doing it’s homework all along, and apparently these rumors about Senator Craig date back to 1982, when in a Mark Foley-like story, he was accused of having sex with underage pages. Here’s a story with lots of findings:

http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/143801.html

The story includes, among other juicy tidbits, this:

The most serious finding by the Statesman was the report by a professional man with close ties to Republican officials. The 40-year-old man reported having oral sex with Craig at Washington’s Union Station, probably in 2004. The Statesman also spoke with a man who said Craig made a sexual advance toward him at the University of Idaho in 1967 and a man who said Craig “cruised” him for sex in 1994 at the REI store in Boise.

Boy, oh, boy. Between the hypocrisy of Vitter, Craig, Foley, Haggard, etc., it appears that these kinds of liars are the rule, not the exception, in today’s GOP.