Loyalty To Larry Craig

Predictably, the Republican Party is circling the wagons around Larry Craig, insisting that the shamed Senator from Idaho deserves a second chan…wait…hold on…nevermind.

Politicians are shameless creatures. They can prattle on and on and on about the importance of loyalty to your country, to the troops, to Americans, to our allies, to each other, and then an opportunity for true loyalty presents itself, and what do politicians do? Go running for the exits, knowing damned well that associating with Craig now would be political suicide.

Just once though, it would be nice to see a politician come forward, ideally from a somewhat progressive state, and say something like, “We live in the greatest democracy the world has ever known, and we live under the greatest political document the world has ever created. That Larry Craig didn’t feel comfortable to live openly as a gay man for his entire life is a shame not just on him, but on all of us. Here’s hoping that we as a society can embrace our brothers and sisters for who they are, instead of insisting that they be who we want them to be. It’s a great big world with a lot of great big problems, and Larry Craig being gay? That isn’t one of them.”

But of course, politicians are spineless losers, and this will never happen.