Let's cut through the crap. The real reason why the GOP distanced itself so rapidly from Sen. Larry Craig is because they'd be uncomfortable while taking a leak next to him at the urinal.

It really is hypocritical, because the Republicans, for nearly three decades now, have been out to screw every man, woman and child in America who doesn't have a seven-figure bank account.

Republicans hate gay people. In fact, the only thing they hate more than gay people are gay Republicans who are elected, then get busted by a vice cop for some sort of lewd conduct.

They don't believe that a gay couple can remain monogamous, they perpetuate the negative stereotype of the gay lifestyle and they make no bones about their belief that every gay individual is condemned to hell.

Meanwhile, they create a hell on earth, where gay partners cannot share health benefits, are not allowed to solemnize their commitment to each other or serve their country, if they so desire, unless they remain closeted.

"Look at Clinton! Look at Clinton!" they'll screech.

Yeah, look at Bill Clinton.

He got a blow job from a pudgy intern in the White House, denied it and paid the price.

So fucking what!

The woman was of age, many bosses pull their secretaries or interns in for a quickie and his lie? Of course he lied. All married men who cheat lie when confronted.

The important thing, of course, is that Clinton never held himself up as the epitome of sexual morality. He was and may well still be a hound, looking to bed any woman he can. That's his and Hillary's business and, at least he isn't chasing anonymous sex in a public bathroom.

I don't care if Craig copulates with men or women. I don't care if he's into auto-eroticism. I don't care if he's celibate. I do care, however, about the hypocrisy of a man who apparently has so much self-hatred that he cannot come to grips with who he really is. Especially when he makes a very strange claim that he "is not gay and never has been gay." Huh? I didn't know you could switch teams.

What's most distressing are the comments of those who want to kill the messenger in this case Ëœ the media.

Was it fair for the Idaho Statesman to investigate this guy?

Damn straight.

It is our responsibility in the media to defrock frauds and charlatans, so if you're marching under the banner of wholesomeness and family virtue, you'd damn well better hold up your end of the bargain, otherwise, you're going to get exposed one way of another. I mean, don't wave the red cape and expect the bull not to charge after your ass.

This self-inflicted exposure, if you will, is going to cost Craig his seat in the Senate, cost him his juicy position as an adviser to Mitt Romney and jeopardize his seat on the board of the National Rifle Association, which, I guess doesn't want to hear the jokes that are sure to come about a board member who can't shoot straight.

Serves him right.

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About author Ed Kociela the City Editor of southern Utah's The Spectrum. He blogs at ed@edkociela.com. Ed Kociela the City Editor of southern Utah's. He blogs at www.edkociela.com