Romney: Craig's Conduct "Disgraceful"

Presidential Hopeful Stops Short Of Calling For Larry Craig's Resignation

(AP)  Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Thursday that Larry Craig's conduct was "disappointing and disgraceful," but stopped short of calling for the Idaho Republican to resign from the Senate.

Several Republican lawmakers, including Romney's presidential rival John McCain, have said the three-term senator should step down. The 62-year-old Craig pleaded guilty earlier this month to a charge stemming from an undercover police operation last June in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.

Craig said Tuesday he had committed no wrongdoing and shouldn't have pleaded guilty. He also said he was not gay.

Campaigning in South Carolina, Romney was asked by a voter why Republicans were distancing themselves from Craig.

"I think it's appropriate when there's been conduct that we think is disappointing and disgraceful to indicate that. I don't think there's a responsibility to try to gild the lily in a setting like this," said the former Massachusetts governor. "I think individuals across the country expect us to have the same expression that they feel, which is disappointment."

Later, Romney said he would not tell Craig what to do.

"I expressed my view that his conduct was disappointing, disgraceful, and at this stage, he has a decision of his own to make about his future. I'm not going to insert myself between him and his conscience," Romney said during a stop in North Charleston.

Craig was Senate liaison for Romney's campaign, a post he abandoned on Monday when the scandal came to light.

While in Myrtle Beach, Romney said Craig's problems won't become his own and that they were dealt with properly.

"People recognize that it's tough enough being a candidate and that one's supporters are going to sometimes make you look better than you deserve and at other times can be disappointing," Romney told a crowd of more than 80 at a Myrtle Beach hotel. "This is a setting where Senator Craig has been disappointing to his colleagues and to his citizenry."

Romney was touring the early voting state where Republicans plan to hold their primary on Jan. 19. He was using a bus dubbed the "Mitt Mobile."

[iceman_1960]

First he''s g*ay... Now Larry Craig is going ACLU.

"Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho denied in his arrest interview that he was trying to engage in lewd behavior in an airport bathroom and suggested he was ENTRAPPED by the arresting officer, according to audiotape of the interview released Thursday."

- CNN

[iceman_1960]

"I''m not familiar with his writings, but he seems to carry some weight with secularists generally associated with Vaclav Havel...stout folks themselves having stood up to the Czech commies at great cost to themselves. So much to look into...so little time."
- Posted by Prinzowhales at 06:42 PM : Aug 30, 2007

One of Vaclav Havel''s plays was produced on U.S. television some years ago.

[prinzowhales]

Posted by AaaBee at 02:44 PM : Aug 30, 2007
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There is some very interesting and quite convincing information regarding Benny XVI at the Most Holy Family Monastery website, regarding ordination, his views and actions.

I''m not familiar with his writings, but he seems to carry some weight with secularists generally associated with Vaclav Havel...stout folks themselves having stood up to the Czech commies at great cost to themselves. So much to look into...so little time.

[donnie900]

Some people, ya know? They just talk.. and ya see their eyeballs go down.. like they''re capable of staring at their own mouths.

If that ************* has so many answers, how come he don''t shut de ****** up and run fer congressman? Huh? He probably goes home and pulls his ****** dork coming up with the bullshyyyt he reports.. that ****** dilddddo.

[donnie900]

Kieth Oberman is so full of himself, the ****** is oozing out his ears! He''s turned news into a god damned sermon! I think even he listens to his bullshyyt words..

[donnie900]

Thats also one thing you can always count on MSNBC for.. stupid dumbazzzed justice profiles and stings. Making a nation of amateur psychologists.

[iceman_1960]

"KO [Keith Olbermann] Reinacts [sic] Sen Craig''s Restroom S*ex Sting, Dragnet Style."

Copied verbatim from Youtube.com

That should have been "Reenact"

That''s one thing you can always count on Youtube for. The simplest words will be misspelled.

[iceman_1960]

KO [Keith Olbermann] Reinacts Sen Craig''s Restroom *** Sting, Dragnet Style.

Funny.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pWFoeAVlW84

[donnie900]

Make no mistake about it: A cop or an investigator looking to set people up? Is a manipulator. A con. And not an officer of justice. This.. 24/7 tabloid junvenility is ridiculous.. and has no applicability to statesmanship or representation. None whatsoever..

[donnie900]

Even when ya get stopped for a traffic violation like speeding.. Yer compelled to ask the guy: "Ain''t you got better things to do?"

These sophistic psychobabble meanings are all moot. They''re all a buncha politically engineered bad raps.