I agree on not going down the road though to use sexuality, in any 
manner, as a political tool runs various degrees of risk in all 
directions regardless of political persuasion. Seems to me that to a 
large degree sexual politics is like the Marxist opiate of the masses... 
as long as we are in conflict over sexuality then it makes room for a 
whole lot worse political behaviour to go on in the shadows. The problem 
with Senator Craig as I see it is not if his actions in an airport 
bathroom were lewd or not, but in what very strongly appears to have 
been his strong desire to cover what he himself may have thought he 
should not have been doing. A whole lot of politics is perception. We 
tend to suspect that our politicians lie though the majority of them are 
likely as decent and honest as anyone can be. The sin for Senator Craig 
is in letting down the facade of the perception to cause us to perceive 
that our suspicion of politicians being habitual liars, cheats and 
thieves may be too true. Last week I could have told you nothing 
regarding the politics of Idaho, and in a few weeks nobody will remember 
Senator Craig. Now, if we start bombing Iran we may have something 
substantive to worry about.

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Brian Robinson (CONTRACT) wrote:

> Oh yes..how soon we forget Barney Franks boyfriend running a male 
> escort service out of Barney's apartment. Lets not go down this road 
> any further. It will just get endless and boring...
>
> PAX
>
> Brian  

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