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Aug 30th, 2007 at 6:31 am by Susie
The reason why so many more Republican senators are “outraged” and calling for Larry Craig’s resignation than they did for “Vitter the sh***er” has nothing to do with it being man-on-man sex. (Although they’re trying to take advantage of that to please the fundie base.)
It’s because unlike Vitter’s home state, Idaho has a Republican governor who will appoint a Republican if he resigns.
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Someone on the internets pointed out that with all this Craig outrage, the media has forgotten all about Gonzales resigning.
The big difference between Craig and Vitter is the matter of a charge and guilty plea. With Vitter all you have is a phone record, which is damaging but he is a hypocrite and it might be best if he left too.
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