Sen. Craig: Fiddle Faddle in a non-Fiddling Party
Senator Larry Craig is in trouble because he fiddled in a non-fiddling party.
Michelle Malkin on the right blasts him as a lying crapweasel, using a word I had to think about before I repeated it. From the left, AmericaBlog has the usual snarky story raising not only that Craig is “musical” but infers racism by mentioning “scary black men” and calling him a hypocrite for having conservative positions. Meanwhile, AllahPundit at Hot Air complains that the media will be sure to identify which party he represents in the US Senate.
Well, duh.
Conservatives continue to subject themselves to punishment in sexual issues, allowing the media to engage in tittilation at our expense. Self flaggellation may be an acceptable practice for 13th century monks or Shia Muslims today, but its hardly a winning political formula.
The prudish germ-o-phobe Laura Ingraham, who often talks of the “pronification of our culture” on her daily talk radio show, does have a point in one respect: conservative news outlets like Fox News engage in the tittallation just as much as their liberal counterparts. But it doesn’t make sense to complain about media bias in sexual issues, as she did this morning, when its evident that we hold our candidates to a different standard than the liberals do. In fact, the media is reflecting our interests when it reports yet another “values conservative” that is engaging in public restroom extra curricular activities.
It would be better to draw a page from the Democrat’s playbook: personal sexual issues are, well, personal sexual issues. It is up to the local voters to decide if a politician’s dalliance is worth his dismissal, not the national news media, and certainly not a “values group” in another state. Criminal activity in sexual matters should be treated like any other criminal activity, of course, but not given more weight.
Besides which, I didn’t realize the crime charge against Craig was not George Michaels-ish: it was, as Classical Values notes, public foot tapping. And all these years I’ve been handing these guys toilet paper.
And, finally, it is not a sign of hypocrasy to be against gay marriage and be gay, as AmericaBlog maintains. You can be conservative, and be gay. You can be a “values” person and be gay.
