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Oh,...AND another thing! When a "gentleman" goes to the restroom, there is ONLY SO FAR you can widen your "stance" because your feet are SUPPOSED to be in your pants and THEY are down around YOUR ankles! Try it sometime! You CAN'T have a "wide stance" when in that situation unless one of your feet are OUT of your pant leg.

If he was NOT guilty in the first place, any sensable/logical person would have fought it and NOT pleaded guilty. That, IMO, MAKES him guilty. I would NEVER plead guilty to something I had not done no matter how bad the accusation was! HE'S guilty and just "wanted it to go away!???" It does not make sense unless he was trying to hide it. Admit to it and let your wife move on to be with someone who truly cares for her!

aww… and here I was looking forward to the comedic value of the ACLU's "The door was closed and therefore he didn't break any laws, if he wanted to have sex in the men's room… it was his right to do so" defense.

married republicans all over the country were probably looking forward to that defense as well… and not for comedic value.

Can this guy finally get what he deserves????????

I feel badly for his wife. Poor woman is married to a closet 'Mo and comforts herself by remaining in a deep state of denial.

I still can't get over the video of this loser mocking Bill Clinton for being "a very bad boy." Craig is the ultimate hypocrite!

Larry needs to appeal to his inner self and come out of the closet already and help get rid of Prop 8

Another one bites the dust................

I guess he'll just have to swallow the decision.

Tap Three Times with your Loafers if you Love Me...............

Is this guy still in office? And if so why?

too bad he didn't resign, like he promised. Guess we should have know better. He has made a joke out of the whole state of Idaho. If he had any honor, he would be ashamed of himself. I know WE are.

senator toilet.

Hey Larry... do us all a favor and leave this planet!

Awe that is really too bad. Just when I thought Idaho was making a comeback for the stupidist Senator of the decade. I guess Alaska is still is away out front in the " Clueless" politician category with both a defeated Senator and Govenor leading.

That's good for the people in the court house. Can you image the urinary- and bowel-induced fidgeting displayed by all the people in the courthouse who refuse to go to the bathroom while Tap-Tap Craig is there?

Hey Objective thinking, glad to see you have your red panties in a bunch. Mr. Craig has a little something of your liking in the bathroom......

The decision not to pursue will make picking up guys a lot easier.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA.

What a disgrace. How stupid are the people in Idaho? Why is this creep still in office?

Public bathrooms are disgusting.

Too bad you dirty old man..... lol. I guess that means the FAT LADY has sung right?

Larry Craig never thought this appeal would succeed. Winning wasn't the goal. He just wanted to avoid spending the rest of his life as an admitted sex offender. Even though this appeal did not succeed . . . it allows him to tell people he didn't really admit to solicit sex in a public bathroom stall.

This guy is just nasty!

Good. You were busted, you admited it and now that it is common knowledge, you want to amend history Just like W. No one is faulting you if you are gay, I think the manner in which you have handled yourself and this situation is disgraceful to you, your family and the people you represent. That is where you dropped the ball.

Oh, and "Objective-thinking", if it were a Democrat on the grill, you would be adding to the fire. Did you ever consider that maybe Mr. Bush brings a lot of this on himself?

Craig has decided to use his time in airports restrooms instead of wasting it in the courts.

He didn't do it, he did it but it wasn't what it appeared, what he did was constitutionally protected free speech, ...

I wonder what his next excuse was going to be? I think the "free speech" one was especially funny coming from a supposed conservative.

Objective thinking January 8th, 2009 2:32 pm ET

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No cause for Bush-bashing here – this is nothing more than yet another example of Republican "Family Values" and hypocricy.

Now that is a tune I could really tap my foot too!

I guess he'll be keeping his wide stance.....

Now that he's retired from the Senate and no longer fighting this conviction, I guess he can find time to to go back to his surreptitious solicitation activities!

This is all Bush's fault. He was suppose to meet up with him and return the code sign in the bathroom. How was that Objective thinking? This guy must be of the GOP on the Log Cabin type. Wonder how his wife feels. Soft I bet.

His attorney used the word "fruitless"?? Really???

Minnesota is better off without the bum.
Amazing how he tried to get the court to reverse his guilty plea. It would be nice, if just once, bozo's like this would just tell the truth.

Like Larry Craig says, He is not gay, he never has been gay, just the guy in the bathroom that he wants to touch him is gay.

His attorney used the word "fruitless"?? Really???

This is only going to make it tougher for Larry Flynt to get a bailout.

That a pathetic way to end a career.

For a man who actively worked to denigrate and to deny Gay civil rights, this whole affair can only be viewed as delicious irony!

Craig,
Just learn not to judge others (gays) you miserable hippocrat. You and most conservative evangelicals like you only pretend to have moral and family values. You are all nothiing but bunch of racist red necks and have no real moral values. You make me sick.
Mike

What I find absolutely dumb about what he did was that he proclaimed his innocence in the national press, the Idaho press, and everywhere else. Then turned around and pled guilty. Now why would a person plead guilty in the first place to a crime they did not commit. Furthermore, what rationale would one have to do that when they claimed in the press and everywhere else they were not guilty.

By pleading guilty, Craig basically let the police officer that was running an undercover sting get by with making the accusation. It's not that police officers don't lie, because they do. After all, look at the Drew Peterson case, the Rodney King beating, etc. It ended up being a case of he said versus she said. Furthermore, under the court of laws of the USA it means innocent until proven guilty. That is a constitutional right. So why would one not make the police prove the guilt. If they couldn't then Craig would have been a free man. You should never take a police officer for his word because like ministers, priests, presidents, congressmen and congresswomen, they all do lie and eventually they will lie about something

Larry Craig is so far in the closet he can see Narnia.

Larry should just come to terms that he was caught, come clean to his wife and live his life as sees fit (out of office). Goodness. DENIAL is a very powerful thing and dangerous.

Larry should just come to terms that he was caught, come clean to his wife and live his life as sees fit (out of office). Goodness. DENIAL is a very powerful thing and dangerous.

Just remember, Republican Senator Larry Craig is not gay!!!

hahaha, he just figured he'd put up a fake show of a fight and we'd remember the silly denials rather than the sad truth that his legal; position was doomed from the start because he was caught red-handed in a "wide stance" (along with peering through the cracks, sending gay hand signals underneath etc).

Another republican hypocrite flushed in the public toilet!

Good, it is time for this to end. He is GUILTY. He said he was GUILTY.
Now he needs to resign. Let's begin to clean up these messes on both sides of the isle.
Our politicians have become a joke and we need to clean house.

I am just glad to see him go... Could he really expect that people wouldn't follow what he does being a US Senator? He should have pleaded innocent from the get go if he really thought that he was. Idiot... Leave the sex scandals to the Democrats.

As Archie Bunker would say PREVERT

Good. Mr. Craig needs to appeal to his true inner feelings, come out the closet, and stop wasting the courts time. Glad, he recognizes this. The economy is bad enough. The taxpayers of his state should not have to waste tax payers dollars to hear this man's appeal knowing that his wide stance was his real stance. He has being reluctantly dragged out of closet, wide stance and all, kicking and screaming, and he should just stop fighting, and be honest with himself. He should probably call Ted Haggard for some advise where the two of them can console each other.

That's because he is Guilty of "toe tapping"he should go to jail where his wish will be filled!!

Isn't it amazing all the weird things that happen in MN? Jesse Ventura, Al Franken, the notorious MN/SP airport (Larry wasn't the first you know).

our policticans, today you can't distingush them from Sam Bob's behavior

Let me be the first to suggest, but not provide, a cheap pun on "fruitless".

Too bad he can't take it to the NATIONAL Supreme Court... I heard Scalia has a special 2-man stall in chambers that would be PERFECT for Craig!

FUNNY.

lol.. what a mess you have made, Larry. It is despicable that he would pretend this never happened and continue as a Senator. What a liar, what a fake. What kind of man has annonymous sex with other men in an airport bathroom? Which is exactly what he was trying to do with the undercover cop, and exactly what he HAS done on other occasions.

Republican morals in practice... hyprocrits (anti-gay rights but some are sleeping with men including that Christian pastor a few years ago). I can't wait until more Republican politicians scandals come out... and trust me they will.

I can't believe he tried to get it thrown out in the first place.

To thy self be true...................Live your life in truth Larry and come out of the closet! There is no greater shame than not being true to yourself.

Boy...that's one horny Senator right there...

Face it!! You are a Pervert , no go crawl under a rock!!!!!!

I'm disappointed. He should have taken it all the way to the US Supreme Court on the issue of whether a "wide stance" constitutes protected speech under the 1st amendment. May be moot in his case, but it's capable of repetition. Ha!

His attorney may have wanted to use a different word to describe things because there is nothing "fruitless" about it! C'mon Larry, come out of the closet – your life will be so much better and liberated!

Craig is a victim of conservative hypocrisy. If conservatives, and others I guess, would acknowledge that same gender sex happens and is ok among consenting adults, then he wouldn't have to sneak around in airport bathrooms. I feel sorry for his wife.
Dan B.

Larry close your eyes and click your heels and say "There's No Place like Home, There's No Place like Home, There's No Place like Home" or you can back to the airport and get the job finished...Another Republican Value..Get Vitter to join you next time in case you don't get lucky. I'm certain that he will pay you for services rendered....

Hey, is David Vitter still in the Senate? Larry Craig never even got his clothes off.

Craig is such a fool! His denial of wrong-doing and insistence of innocence have brought shame to his family. He should have resigned immediately to avoid the public humiliation. He's now back to where he was: guilty.

He still has options. There are still so many airports he can now visit and freely pursue his lifestyle.

No he won't , according to him he's head back to the airport mens room. This time he won't make such a wide stance. Perverted Idiot Republican.

Oh well, Senator "tap tap" will now have to live with the idea that he partakes in gay-oriented activities and the rest of the country knows it. So much for "family values"

Larry "Happy Feet" Craig will now fade into obscurity, all the better for him, makes it easier to hang out in Men's Rooms.

If you are Gay Larry tell the truth. I know the hate mongers in your party won't like it, but hey so goes life!

Larry, funny how hindsight is 20-20.......you should have thought of all this before you decided to plead guilty in the first place. Since you went thru the motions, take responsibility for your actions.

Bush and Cheney have destroyed America and committed horrible acts...and we're supposed to care about a sex-in-the-bathroom case???

There's SO many stories to write about. So many positive ones that COULD be told as an upbeat news to counter all that's wrong in the world today.

Where's Anderson Cooper when we need him?

ewwh, just ewwh

We all know what he was really doing in that bathroom!!! I feel bad for his wife and family. He's a looser for not coming out of the closet sooner!

Yep, you were "vindicated" and found innocent, sure.

On the bright side, your free to tap-dance to show tunes until you find a new BFF!

Apparently he decided not to stall.

It is time for Craig to pay for his crime!

Looks like his case got flushed.

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FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well of course it will be "Fruitless", he confessed. Now folks I am no saint by any means but I am not confessing to something that I did not do. Dude, you got caught soliciting gay sex which is against the law, I guess, so take your punishment like a champ. Besides, where you are going, you won't need to give foot tap signals in the bathroom. You can have all the gay sex you want in prison. I do have a question for all, is what he did illegal? What would be the difference if a man asked a woman for sex? I live in Texas so I don't know the laws in MN. I didn't think it was against tthe law to propose someone for sex, unless money was being exchanged then I guess that would be considered prostituion.

He need to ride off into the sunset....I am sick of him.