A Stroll Down Memory Lane With Larry Craig-- When Will It Be Trent Franks' Turn?

Larry Craig & one of his lovers did not meet at a church social

A few weeks ago Sam Stein took a look at the post-senatorial careers of Larry Craig and other recent ex-Senators. Many, like Craig, are cashing in on their government contacts by peddling influence as lobbyists. You'll recall that the former hysterically and virulently homophobic right-wing extremist from Idaho was caught trying to perform fellatio on a handsome young police officer in a public toilet. He still claims "I am not gay." Craig is being paid to lobby for taking gray wolves off the endangered species list. Other defeated and retired senators from his class whoring themselves out as lobbyists are Wayne Allard (R-CO), John Warner (R-VA), Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR), John Sununu (R-NH), and Norm Coleman (R-MN).

Speaking of gray wolves and gay GOP hate-filled homophobic closet cases, I happened to get an e-mail the other day from an employee at one of the discreet establishments in DC that cater to closeted politicians of the homophobic persuasion who are addicted to boy flesh. Larry Craig was a regular client, and although the e-mail was about another Republican (who doesn't necessarily merit being outed at this time, at least not by me), he mentioned in passing some interesting points about then-Senator Craig and other mentally unbalanced Republicans. "I could have a field day writing about the Republican closet where even the straightest of the GOP know where to go to get serviced, as it were," he wrote. [WARNING: the links below are hard-core; if you're easily offended, DO NOT click on them.]

Craig's assistant used to bring in all the porn Craig would have him download to external drives (Eurocreme, anyone?). Seems he didn't want the discs around so they were put onto drives with boring congressional type names but they were full of Baitbus and Fratmen TV downloads, Eurocreme movies and Tiësto mixes! Can't indict Craig with the behavior of his assistant but the assistant stayed high and horny. His living room was a porn shrine (six monitors running 24/7 and a projection on the ceiling.) He was in the club at all hours and always fucked up. One just had to wonder what kind of boss would tolerate that shit...
 
...I remember a high up consultant on strategies in Iraq (a psychology specialist on the Iraqi mindset). He'd brag about his friendship with Reagan. He used to get all fucked up and try to lure boys to his home with drugs that he carried in a pouch. He left the pouch behind one night and it was loaded with everything from syringes, hashish and ketamine sealed in vials to coke, meth and viagra! An easy 15 years hard time's worth. That bastard actually called the next day looking for it! When he picked it up, someone here told him he might not want to travel with all that shit and definitely should not call around looking for it! He just laughed and said, "depends on who's in office!"

I thought it might be a good time to revisit this since Craig still insists he has never been gay and thinks he can get rich in DC by working his magic on his old Republican colleagues:

Caught in a public toilet (again) soliciting anonymous sex from a hunky young plainclothes policeman (right), Craig has been kicked to the curb by his right-wing allies. The far right blogosphere is demanding he resign this week. Mitt Romney fired him as head of his Idaho campaign and senatorial outreach program and has forbidden his son Josh to even travel to Boise. I don't hear any of Craig's barbershop quartet buddies-- like Trent Lott-- coming to his defense and I don't hear the other closeted Republican homophobes in the Congress-- like Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) or House members David Dreier (R-CA), Jim McCrery (R-LA), Phil English (R-PA), Denny Hastert (R-IL), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), or any of the others-- asking for understanding and sympathy.

...I think Larry Craig, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham should give a press conference on the steps of Capitol Hill today and tell the world that they're gay and that they're sorry for their homophobic behavior and that from now on they will lead lives just like ordinary Americans-- no more closets, no more furtive sex in public toilets, no more lying and cheating. Larry, Mitch, Lindsey, come out, be proud of who you are. Save yourselves from the misery and aguish. Congressman Bob Bauman (R-MD) was a far right GOP congressman and a founding member of both the Young Americans for Freedom and the Conservative Union (of which he was chairman). In 1980 the congressman was arrested for having sex from a 16 year old boy. He was defeated in his re-election bid and his wife, who was also a YAF member, had their marriage annulled. Bauman wrote a book which all elected Republicans should read, The Gentleman From Maryland. He wrote poignantly about how his secret double life was so stressful that it led to alcoholism. He finally admitted he was gay and became a bit of a gay activist, in a conservative way.