In the real world anybody that pleads guilty is guilty, and for someone who studies the laws, makes the laws and enforces the laws, such as a Senator, they should know the Law.
Any Politician worth his weight in kick backs knows there is no such thing as a cover up when it comes to scandals involving sex. Those always make it to the surface. Sex and racism always come back to haunt a Politician one way or another. The fact that this man pleaded guilty, 3 months after the charge speaks soundly to his knowledge of the law and it's possible repercussion. He had plenty of time to think and research his decision. He had plenty of time to seek private counsel with client-attorney privacy laws that would have protected him. This man is a Senator of the United States. Are we to believe he does not have a lawyer friend to whom he could have confided in for guidence? NO.
If what he now claims so adamantly, that he was afraid of journalist, that the accusation and pursuant arrest was under completely false pretense. That he is a victim of a misunderstanding, setup and railroading by Minneapolis police, if we are to believe these to be factual and true, why not state that claim the moment he got his first chance to call a lawyer?
Okay, he didn't seek counsel, that's stupid enough and raises suspicion of guilt alone. But in the real world, if a person goes through something they deem to be a stupid misunderstanding, putting them in a awkward position, they will normally come home, pull their spouse aside and say, "you won't believe what happened to me today." But we now find out that the Senator never told his wife or his children until the story was about to go prime time.
---"I felt like the floor was falling out from under me. ... And I felt like almost like I was going down a drain for a few moments," she told NBC's Matt Lauer.---
---Sen. Craig told Lauer it was a "tough call" not to tell anyone about the incident. "I didn't want to embarrass my wife, my kids, Idaho and my friends," Craig said. "And I wrestled with it a long while. ... I should have told my wife. I should have told my kids. And most importantly, I should have told counsel."---
For my money this seals the deal all by its self. 99% of the time, a spouses sexual indiscretion will remain a secret until it is about or has reached the light of day. Any episode of "Cops" or "To Catch A Predator" will prove that. The busted will almost always make mention of their wife never finding out, by pleading that they don't.
Then there is of course the blatantly obvious. No man picks up a piece of toilet tissue off the floor of a public bathroom stall. In fact, in most cases, what hits the floor, stays on the floor. And if it's something you need, it's one hell of a daunting but necessary task to pick it up. But toilet tissue? Nope, no way, there's more on the roll. Then there is the touching another mans foot while sitting on the public thrown. This is so incredibly hard to belive that it's not worth debate but, and I am almost positive this goes for Gay men as well, if it happens, there will be a small freak out from both parties involved.
I myself cannot imagine touching another mans foot while standing at the urinal but especially sitting on the toilet, and not flipping out a little. But if it happened I'm sure the person I touched would react, and negatively. Of course I would then apologies, and there would be some sort of awkawrd banter, but the both of us would want outta there fast. Not from homophobia, from YUCK!! Bowel movements are a very personal thing, doing them in a room with others trying to have their own personal movements is messed up enough, but to invade that personal space is completely out of the question, out of the norm and out of the realm of real world public restroom decorum. This is why all of his actions, and non actions point directly to what he plead guilty to. And his actions since, are making it worse.
Craig's plea for an overturn of his original plea was shot down. He is now stating that he will appeal again.
---"It is my right to do what I'm doing," said Craig, an Idaho Republican. "I've already provided for Idaho certainty that Idaho needed — I'm not running for re-election. I'm no longer in the way. I am pursuing my constitutional rights."---
This is of course making him the poster boy for the "closet", a place that Homosexuals are fighting to abolish, but still feel a necessary place to hide because of individuals like Craig, and their superior complex over all "unlike" themselves (also known as the "Falwell Syndrome" or "Coulter Conscience"). This is what makes this and others like it such compelling stories. Which really brings home the concept and universal truth of "judge not, lest you be judge." But the absurdity of this particular story is mind boggling, because he just might get away with it. Which is criminal because "law officials" are always great and heroic until a public official gets busted doing something they shouldn't. It's like jailing Border Patrol Agents for shooting (not killing) a known drug smuggler while he's trying to enter the country illegally, and attacks the officers. Or loving the soilder until the soilder says something you don't like because it goes against personal or affiliated political beliefs. It's all backwards, but if you have the power, and the agent of mind control (talk radio host) then you've got the upper hand.
Craig could have avoided this entire ordeal by citing an (amended) Constitutional provision that bars authorities from detaining Senators from a vote on the floor. Under scrutiny it would not have held up, but in that busy Minneapolis Airport, there's no way the cop would have known that, and with a bit a forcefulness from Craig, the Senator and his credentials would have pushed the officer into letting him go.
This man is an idiot, he should be thrown out of public office, and no other court should hear his appeal. He plead guilty once and has been found guilty twice. Case closed.
Quotes via AP