Life's soundtrack....
Sep. 1st, 2007 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundOkay, when Paris Hilton ended up in the pokey, Avenue Q's "Schadenfreude" kept running though my head.
Now it's Sen. Larry Craig's career that's stalled and in the crapper, and "If You Were Gay" is the song on my internal iTunes list.
*snork*
On a semi-serious note, Sen. David Vitter has admitted he frequented the services of the "DC Madame". Which means he broke the law too, and *admitted* he did. I wonder why he's not being thrown under the GOP bus like Sen. Craig is, (Sen. Vitter even spoke out against prositution at the same time he was using the services of a prositiute, making him as much of a hypocrite as Sen. Craig.)
Could it be any or all the following reasons??
1) Sen. Craig comes from a red state with a GOP governor. It's easy to sacrifice him, because there's not a chance the governor will select anything other than another Republican. Sen. Vitter comes from a state with a Democratic governor. (Mind you, Sen. Vitter once said Clinton should step down because of HIS affair, which makes his hypocritcy worse).
2) Yeah, both Senators cheated on their spouses and lied about it. But Sen. Vitter at least did it with a *woman*, making it easier to forgive than Sen. Craig's bathroom trysts with (gasp!) other men.....
3) While Vitter *admitted* to using a prositutes services, he wasn't arrested for it. Craig was arrested his actions.
The GOP sure has had a lot of sex-related scandals of late, many of them same-sex. Wonder what the next one will be, (Doesn't Jeff Gannon have a book out soon? Wonder what a White House "reporter" / male prositute will be telling about......)
Something else. This isn't a "gay vs. straight" thing. It is quite possible that Sen. Craig really doesn't see himself as being gay. A majority of closeted men who partake of such activities (the so called "tearoom trade") don't see themselves or don't self-identify as gay. I really think you have to be in a major amount of self-denial to have such a belief, but so it goes
Now it's Sen. Larry Craig's career that's stalled and in the crapper, and "If You Were Gay" is the song on my internal iTunes list.
*snork*
On a semi-serious note, Sen. David Vitter has admitted he frequented the services of the "DC Madame". Which means he broke the law too, and *admitted* he did. I wonder why he's not being thrown under the GOP bus like Sen. Craig is, (Sen. Vitter even spoke out against prositution at the same time he was using the services of a prositiute, making him as much of a hypocrite as Sen. Craig.)
Could it be any or all the following reasons??
1) Sen. Craig comes from a red state with a GOP governor. It's easy to sacrifice him, because there's not a chance the governor will select anything other than another Republican. Sen. Vitter comes from a state with a Democratic governor. (Mind you, Sen. Vitter once said Clinton should step down because of HIS affair, which makes his hypocritcy worse).
2) Yeah, both Senators cheated on their spouses and lied about it. But Sen. Vitter at least did it with a *woman*, making it easier to forgive than Sen. Craig's bathroom trysts with (gasp!) other men.....
3) While Vitter *admitted* to using a prositutes services, he wasn't arrested for it. Craig was arrested his actions.
The GOP sure has had a lot of sex-related scandals of late, many of them same-sex. Wonder what the next one will be, (Doesn't Jeff Gannon have a book out soon? Wonder what a White House "reporter" / male prositute will be telling about......)
Something else. This isn't a "gay vs. straight" thing. It is quite possible that Sen. Craig really doesn't see himself as being gay. A majority of closeted men who partake of such activities (the so called "tearoom trade") don't see themselves or don't self-identify as gay. I really think you have to be in a major amount of self-denial to have such a belief, but so it goes
