Last Words on The Good Senator

Some final (we hope) thoughts about Senator Larry Craig.

This is not a man. This is a construct.

He can't speak without a script. He is a total image and fake.

What did he do these past 30 years for Idaho or his country?

He says, "I love Idaho." But apparently he loves Idaho so much, he has spent most of his adult life in Washington, DC., donning his starched blue jeans just before landing every so often in Boise to see his wife and 3 adopted children.

The entire audio of his conversation with the arresting officer was played last night on CNN and it is mind-boggling. It sounds like a bit on Saturday Night Live, but it is real. A grown man having a serious discussion with a police officer about how wide is his stance while sitting on a public toilet and how his foot could cross over into another booth and whether it was his right or left hand that went under the wall separating the two booths.

And now this pathetic absurdity that he might not resign.

Wasn't it that great (country and) western philosopher Kenny Rogers who said, "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em?"

Jerry Lewis is 81 and in dreadful health and still craves an audience. Rafe Mair is in his mid-70's and still must have his audience, at five bucks a head, and Senator Craig apparently cannot imagine life without being Senator Craig.