Republican party leaders acted swiftly and decisively to persuade Republican U. S. Senator Larry Craig to resign. As someone arrested for soliciting gay sex in a men's room, Craig was considered a liability -- especially as the Republicans have positioned themselves as the party of the religious right.
Interestingly, Republican party leaders did nothing on the scandal facing Republican U. S. Senator Ted Stevens, who is being investigated by the FBI for accepting bribes, and of the scandal facing Republican U. S. Senator David Vitter, who was the client of an expensive prostitution service. (I guess if you solicit for sex, it should be as a paying customer, and it should be heterosexual sex.)
You would never know that the Republican party has a great history; it is, after-all, the party of Abraham Lincoln and of Teddy Roosevelt. Of course, Lincoln and Roosevelt were reformers, and few recent Republican Presidents have had their intellect, their courage, and their vision.
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