Posted By Brendan H., San Antonio, TX : October 4, 2007 4:18 pm

Bush sucks, OK Brendan?

Talk about a mulligan, Kennedy got one for killing a young women many years ago and the sheep still voted him in again............

Just think: if he gets his face out of the media and quietly disappears, he can cruise restrooms in relative anonymity.

That's the ticket.

Jim, the first page told you the outcome of two different motions. That's all that you needed if you just wanted to know that.

All of the other information is given so that the opinion can be used as legal precedent. In order to do so, the judge needs to lay out a statement of facts and then show what legal analysis he used to make his decision. I don't know how you think that law is applied, but if it weren't for precedent and these types of opinions, there would be no consistency to its application. In order to be used down the road for other similar cases where defendants want to withdraw their pleas, one must know the relevant facts to show similarity, as well as which prior cases were used to in the event that any were overturned.

He pleaded guilty, and he knows he is guilty, why is he wasting tax dollars to try to save himself? Truly this man, among are other leaders, is doing a disservice to the very people and state he represents. He needs to go.

What'll be next, Bush will proclaim, "My bad on Iraq," and then go, yet again, after the wrong country?!?!?!

Judge Porter – your doing the right thing.

They all have skeletons in their cupboards GOP just want to run this guy out of town. I am not for anyone losing their jobs over sex.

I'm not defending Craig with this commentary, as I am a Liberal Democrat.
However, there is a law in Minnesota that allows a defendant to withdrawal a guilty plea. So your comments about "privilege and power" or "setting a precedent for other criminals" shouldn't be aimed at Craig, but more so toward the courts in Minnesota. Your dislike of Craig for one reason or another is one thing; but to imply that he was given special favors (ability to withdrawal plea) because of his public profile is incorrect.

BTW, I sort of hope Craig stays in office because this could help the Dems in the long run. Think about it this way, if he resigns, another GOP person fills his seat (governor appointment). This will give the GOP a boost in the 2008 Idaho senate regular election, the new appointee can claim that he/she is experienced in office, etc. Whereas when Craig leaves office when his term expires, then this will be an open seat, with a slim possibility for a Dem senator.

Hopefully, Craig's last act as senator now will be to keep his promise and resign from the senate. I pray his successor is a Democrat – We REALLY need way more Democrats on capitol hill to override Bush's follies.

And who was Craig to make a guilty plea and then turn around and fight it? This is just more of the arrogance displayed by the Republican party at large. Thank God almighty I'm a liberal Democrat.

The solution to the "problem" of men's room sex is exactly what the Airport where this occurred has subsequently done: cover the gap between the stalls that created the conditions for the sex play in the first place. Now they should also end the practice of entrapping men seeking gay sex.

By the way, should someone have been injured by Mr. Craig's behavior, such as a child or even unwilling adult being exposed to it, that WOULD legitimately be called a crime and should be punished. That did not happen in this case.

One more thing: Mr. Craig has demonstrated the ultimate in hypocrisy by blaming the gay rights movement for his difficulty with the law. This position caps his long career of opposition to gay rights with an ironic, and sad, demonstration of his self-destructive sexual confusion and willingness to demagogue the issue.

Regardless of whether or not he's guilty, I think it's tragic the intolerance, misinformation, and taboo of being gay is so out of whack in this country that people would be so afraid to admit what (not who, but what) they are that they would resort to bathrooms to "secretly" engage in such activities. Hopefully our culture will become more accepting of what people are, so they don't have to be so afraid they hide the truth from the world, so stuff like this becomes much rarer.

I have to say this – It is Larry Craig's word versus the airport police
officer's. So those who find Larry guilty as charged are basing that finding on the officer's story. There are no witnesses or video on what happened in the washroom. Just Saying...Fair is Fair.

If it was someone other than Senator Craig would people haven just taken the officer's word and version of what happened? I don't think so. Somebody would be screaming foul and asking where the evidence was.

I just think like the Jenna Case all should be treated fairly under the law and Justice System. And the only two people who really know what went on in that washroom is Senator Craig and the Airport Police Officer...Making it a He said – He said case.

Larry Crain is the poster child for utter moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party.

Posted By Bubba, Swainsboro GA : October 4, 2007 2:27 pm

Since they've taken care of the acne, isn't it about time they did something about the rest of that cancer-ridden body?

It is now October. Kindly do what you said you would do.

In these foul days of fear and loathing, it is heartening to see that John Adams' famous words have not been forgotten:
"to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men." This phrase has been quoted with approval by the U.S. Supreme Court and every state supreme court in the United States.

One would think a sitting United States Senator would have the cojones to stand by his word – both as to the guilty plea and commitment to leave the Senate.

Instead, he will no doubt vow to fight on – to the Supreme Court if necessary. What a pathetic display.

We need to keep this story alive.