“A Bad, Naughtyboy”

It’s only the gays who do that, right?

(Updated.)

Sigh. For Christ’s sake.

Is it too much to ask the heartland people of America to understand that a political candidate who makes the loudest noises about “family values” and rails against “sin” and whatever other nonsense they (or their speechwriters) can dig up almost always has a dirty little secret?

What really ticks me off is that there are hundreds of thousands of perfectly well-adjusted gay men and women in this country who not only have the courage to live out of the closet, but also don’t troll for jollies in a filthy public restroom—–in a major airport, no less––while having gone on record denouncing a former, democratically elected President for consentual sexual hijinks.

Larry Craig, like Mark Foley before him, is both a pig and a true deviant; an ugly label his party so often relishes painting all gay people with simply to pick up a few extra votes from the perpetually grousing Limbaugh contingent.

What is it with these deeply self-loathing, closeted Republicans? This phenomenon is nothing new, obviously, but I’m going to repeat what’s been said many times before: if you hate who you are that much, get some therapy and quit fucking things up for the rest of us who are proudly gay, happy and normal, capeesh?

Update: Andrew Sullivan offers some rather good thoughts on this whole episode.